Prepare Yourselves: A 236bhp Diesel Skoda Kodiaq vRS Is Coming
When we first took delivery of ‘our’ Skoda Kodiaq long-term test car, many sneered and its dinky little 1.4-litre engine. As it turns out, the 148bhp inline-four turbo has been a more than worthy unit, but if you want a much more powerful way to ferry around your family and a crap-load of stuff, we’ve good news: it seems as though the Czech manufacturer is cooking up a go-faster one.
Yep, the big ol’ family bus is being given the vRS (or just ‘RS’ outside of the UK) treatment, and the above image of the car testing at the Nurburgring has emerged. You’re probably expecting it to have the tried-and-tested 2.0-litre ‘EA888’ petrol engine, but no: it’ll be a diesel…
The word is that this new member of the vRS family - imagined above in a render from X-Tomi Design - will use a 236bhp twin-turbo diesel engine. Details are thin on the ground other than that, but it shouldn’t be hard to work out exactly how the vehicle will shape up, as this car already has an equivalent in the VW range: the top-spec TDI 240 Tiguan Allspace.
Assuming it’s the same engine (and we don’t see why it wouldn’t be), it’ll have a useful 369lb ft of torque to play with, and be able to hit 62mph from rest in 6.5 seconds.
It should be here later in the year, and we anticipate a starting price of around £35,000.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Yey, a 239 hp twin turbo diesel Škoda SUV developed on the Nürburgring… That’s EXACTLY what the world has been waiting for!
I bet James may will want it
Does that imply a twin turbo 4 cylinder?
62 miles an hour in 62 mph seconds? Unheard of…
the rs guys can turn any car into a racecar
But 236bhp isn’t really all that much for a car this large, i expected atleast 300
89 upvotes?!
Then why didn’t they turn a hatchback into one? It just doesn’t seem logical to make a fast crossover when hatchbacks are lighter and have a lower CoG
Boi why you hacking the upvotes
Oh how I’ve been screaming for a diesel SUV with unnecessary amounts of horsepower being blasted ‘round the Nürnbergring!
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Czech soccer moms can now rejoice!
It will be faster on track than the Porsche 919 Hybrid.
Actually, is there a diesel category for the Nurburgring?
MunichIsMyCity Didn’t you say you wanted to replace the Santa Fe with a Kodiaq?
You could just buy a skoda superb with 280hp as its faster probably cheaper yet bigger and is a bit of a sleeper for skoda terms. Also hey skoda what about a rs skoda superb? With a 400hp engine? And a manual transmission would be nice too
And I’m sitting here, still waiting for the octavia Vrs to gt AWD, and waiting for a Superb RS…