Just days after the official presentation of the Skoda Kodiaq in Berlin and a new report states that the SUV will gain a more powerful diesel mill.
Discussing the subject with the company’s Board Member for Research and Development Christian Struber, AutoExpress says that the most powerful diesel model of the Kodiaq series will debut sometime next year.
“I have been driving such a car only last week, and it was fantastic. From an engineering perspective, of course we want to give the Kodiaq even more performance, and we’ve been working on this. Now we must wait for the business case“, Struber said, who explained that “it was a diesel” when asked about the nature of the powertrain.
Word on the street has it that the most powerful variant of the Skoda SUV will get the twin-turbodiesel engine from the European Volkswagen Passat, a four-cylinder mill with 240 PS (237 HP), which will top the most potent version the Kodiaq currently has to offer – a 2.0-liter TDI with 190 PS (187 HP).
Sportline and rugged Scout versions could also join the Skoda Kodiaq lineup, according to the company’s CEO, Bernhard Maier, while the rumormill is also talking about vRS model with a higher-output 2.0 TSI.
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