Skoda Kodiaq Scout Beefed Up For Geneva Debut
If there's one thing that the Volkswagen Group has figured out, it's how to ruggedize its road-going vehicles. You might assume, though, that it wouldn't need to apply that treatment to its SUVs... but you'd be mistaken. Case in point: the new Skoda Kodiaq Scout. Scout , for those unfamiliar, is what Skoda calls its beefing-up program – similar to sister-brand VW's Alltrack , Audi's Allroad , and Seat's X-Perience lines. The Czech brand has already applied the treatment to successive versions of the Octavia , Roomster , and Fabia – but now it's extending the same (with apologies to the Yeti) to its first proper SUV. Not unlike the Seat Ateca X-Perience , the Kodiaq Scout is distinguished by features including specific 19-inch wheels, tinted glass, and silver-colored underbody protection, roof rails, window frames, and door mirrors. Since the Kodiaq is already a sport-ute, Skoda apparently didn't need to beef up the whe...