Hello. What’s this, then?” I’d hopped up into the cabin of the new Skoda Kodiaq vRS and pressed the start button. I expected it to start. It burbled. Like a proper old American V8, as you might find even now on a Ford Mustang, say. Surprise!
Could it be, I wondered in my reverie, that VW Group, successful custodians of the Skoda brand for a quarter of a century, had decided to slot the firm’s excellent V8 motor, as fitted to their sporty Audis and Bentleys, into, erm, a seven-seater Skoda SUV? Had the petrol-heads taken over again? Had someone at head office with a lot of letters after their name developed a sense of humour? Decided to perform an appropriately Kafkaesque experiment on the normally humdrum Kodiaq, just for lols?
