In the past two years, Volkswagen's life has not been good, not only losing the top position in the global sales list, but also a variety of models in its domestic layout, but also the quality problems, so although Volkswagen is still firmly at the top of the domestic automobile market sales list, the overall sales decline is not small. In fact, Volkswagen's sub-brands, life is not very good, such as the former general Skoda, its cumulative sales in China in 2020 173,000 vehicles, but in 2021, Skoda's cumulative sales in China is only 70,000 vehicles, sales are actually better than the price of the quite expensive Porsche, which is really surprising. However, if you think about it, it is also expected that Skoda will achieve such sales, and the sales of the brand's models are average, but there is also a lack of models carrying a big flag.
To be honest, compared with domestic car brands, joint venture cars often do "premium" things, but with the decline of their own brand aura, the "premium" behavior is difficult to be recognized, however, Skoda's sales are sluggish, there is no brand premium behavior, not only that, Skoda has always been very sincere, like the brand's Kodiak, although positioned in the medium-sized SUV market, but the starting price is less than 180,000 yuan, but with RVA4 Rongfang, Joint venture compact SUVs such as the CR-V start at comparable prices. Of course, Skoda's sincerity is not limited to the price, the car entry model is equipped with a 2.0T engine, and on Kodiak's body, you can also see the intelligent voice interaction system, L2 level intelligent driver assistance system and so on.
Today, Kodiak will also usher in its own mid-term redesign, and in terms of the product information currently announced, the new car has made great changes in appearance and interior compared with the Kodiak on sale. For example, in terms of appearance, the design style of the new car is derived from the European RS version of the style, which adds a lot of sharpness to the rounded front face. The convex three-dimensional middle net is not absent, the outer periphery of the grille is still inlaid with a wide body decorative strip, and the penetrating lower grille placed at the front bumper is adjusted to a polygonal lower grille, and at both ends of the grille, you can also see the black mesh decorative panel, which is inlaid with silver decorative strips on the outer edge of the decorative plate, and the whole front of the car is more refined.
Come to the side, you can feel the rich German style, the 4 meters 7 long body with a multi-line design, enhance the visual slenderness, front and rear wheel eyebrows and side skirt parts inlaid with black decorative strips, combined with double five-spoke wheels, showing a not weak sporty atmosphere. However, the inclination of the D pillar of the car is not large, and the silver decorative strips along the window and the window of the car look decent, and even some of them are lowered.
The rear part of the car, due to the inclination of the D-pillar is not large, so that the tilting curve of the rear windshield is not large, but the visual sense of some vans, however, the line of sight is moved down, you will find that Kodiak still has a highly recognizable SUV atmosphere. On the lower edge of both sides of the trunk, you can see a long strip of reflective light strips, which are inlaid with long black decorative strips between the light strips, and at the bottom of the rear bumper, you can see a large area of black skid plate, which is equipped with polygon exhaust ports at both ends, which not only widens the visual width of the rear of the car, but also adds a lot of sports atmosphere.
As for the interior, the new car center console has a rich sense of layering, the surface layer is wrapped in black leather, between the center console of this part and the center console using carbon fiber decorative panels, inlaid with slender silver decorative strips, the line of sight moves down, and you can see the center console with perforated brown leather, such a design in addition to improving the tactile effect, but also adds a lot of luxury, but also more exquisite than the interior design of Tiguan L. In addition, the steering wheel of the new car adopts the latest design of multi-function button + roller operation mode, the central control screen suspended in the center console, although there are LCD touch buttons on the left side, the screen size is not small, so it will not lack the atmosphere of science and technology.
In fact, the new car intelligence is still complete in terms of functions, the screen has a built-in intelligent voice interaction system, through the way of speaking can control other functions in the car, not only that, in the new body, you can also see full-speed adaptive cruise, fatigue driving tips and other safety intelligence. However, it is not known whether the new car will carry an OTA remote upgrade, after all, this function is not seen in the current model.
In summary, because the new car has not yet been listed, a lot of product information is still in a state of confidentiality, but from the official release of product information, the appearance and interior of this model have made no small adjustments, and the intelligence presented is still in line with the mainstream, coupled with the affordable price, Kodiak's cost performance is indeed not low. In addition, Kodiak, who has such strength, also has the same Ashkenazi bloodline as Tiguan L, so it seems that Kodiak is more worth buying than Tiguan L.