Friday, July 8, 2016

With the Škoda Kodiaq, the brand reaches a new milestone – PanamaOn

Škoda launches its major campaign Škoda SUV with Kodiaq. This SUV is 4.70 meters long a true SUV. It offers the largest luggage capacity in its class and also a unique advantage in the segment: optional third-row seats. The Kodiaq represents all the strengths of the brand: expressive design, a high degree of functionality and several features ‘Simply Clever’. With the Kodiaq, which goes on sale in early 2017, Škoda has put a new emphasis on infotainment, assistance systems and connectivity. With the Škoda Kodiaq, the brand enters a new market that is growing rapidly worldwide: the large SUV segment. With this campaign, the company wants to attract new customer groups, increase market share and further strengthen its position in international markets. The Škoda Kodiaq is a sample of the position in which Škoda is now, while looking to the future. It has a variety of new technologies and future-oriented in terms of connectivity, including mobile online services to ensure the best security and information services. “Our new SUV Škoda Kodiaq is a large SUV,” said ŠKODA CEO, Bernhard Maier Director. “It combines an active sense of vitality with the classic qualities of the brand: a high degree of functionality and a remarkable space. As always, in the design process we have focused on providing ‘a little car’, and the result has been the best vehicle in its segment. Furthermore, with its emotional design, the Škoda Kodiaq has an unmistakable presence on the road. ”

Even at first glance, the Škoda Škoda Kodiaq is true: with an image full of character and emotion, moves the new design language of the brand to the SUV segment. In everyday use, it offers a variety of qualities for family, leisure and business. Both five-seat version and in seven, the Škoda Kodiaq has a large room for everyone and everything. In addition, with a capacity of 2,065 liters, the five-seater vehicle boasts the largest trunk in its class. Longitudinally adjustable rear seats are standard, while the seatbacks can be tilted to suit each user. Ease of use, excellent workmanship and philosophy ‘Simply Clever’ are characteristics that define Škoda. The Kodiaq introduces new and extraordinary concepts such as plastic protection on the edges of the doors, which are automatically deployed to prevent the vehicle from damage in garages or parking areas. It also has an electrical safety lock for younger passengers, as well as a package of sleeping comfort that includes special headrest for long trips

At the top of its segment. Connectivity solutions with innovative connectivity solutions, the Škoda Kodiaq leads its segment in this area. Infotainment elements, which come from the second generation of the Modular Infotainment Platform Volkswagen Group offer numerous functions and interfaces and are all equipped with capacitive touch screen. The Columbus and Amundsen systems incorporate high-end WiFi hotspot. As an optional extra, an LTE module is available for the Columbus system, which establishes a connection to the Internet using the mobile communication system faster today. Passengers can use it to browse online and send messages using their mobile phones and tablets. The new Škoda online mobile services are compatible with LTE, and are divided into two categories: Infotainment Online services that provide information and navigation Care Connect and services that provide assistance and emergency breakdowns. ECall emergency button, which will be mandatory for all new cars in Europe from 2018, and is part of Care Connect service. Through Škoda Connect app you can access other online services used to check, configure and locate a car remotely via smartphone. The Kodiaq reaches a new level as the intelligent link between a car and a smartphone. The SmartLink platform with carplay Apple, Android Auto, MirrorLinkTM and SmartGate is optional for the Infotainment system Swing input to the range, but comes standard on most advanced infotainment systems. The inductive load phonebox smartphone connects the antenna to the roof and cargo wirelessly.

The Škoda Kodiaq are available a variety of assistance systems to driving. The Area View, new to Škoda, cameras displayed on the monitor closest to the car environment. When a trailer is coupled to the large SUV, the Tow Assist system takes over maneuvers in reverse. The new predictive pedestrian protection function complements the Front Assist. The Parking Distance Control with braking function, the Kodiaq automatically brakes when it detects an obstacle system. In addition, other systems driver assistance are available for Kodiaq. Its function is to keep the car in the distance correct security respect to vehicles in front, provide the driver with lane change or stay in it, alert the driver signals important traffic and help in the parking lot.

When the Škoda Kodiaq be launched in early 2017, you can choose from five different engines: two TDI and three TSI. The most powerful petrol engine, the 2.0-liter TSI, provides a dynamic driving with a power of 180 hp, and is just as efficient as a propulsion system less displacement by the development of a new combustion process. The high proportion of high-strength steel in the body makes Kodiaq a light unusually vehicle, and this is another important efficiency factor

The transmission has a wide range of technology. Manual gearbox six-speed DSG transmission, front wheel drive and all-wheel drive. The big SUV Czech Republic manages any type of street balanced and comfortable fit, but also with dynamism and agility. The driving experience becomes even more attractive when the car has the Driving Mode Select (Selecting the Drive Mode) and the new Dynamic Chassis Control (DCC). With them, control the steering wheel, accelerator, the DSG transmission and suspension can be configured in various ways. The new Škoda Kodiaq also feels at home on difficult surfaces. Leaving the road, off-road mode assists the driver using the AWD system. By pressing a button, all relevant systems (engine management systems support, systems electronic chassis as ABS or ESC, and also the suspension when combined with the optional DCC) automatically adjust to the conditions off-road (off- road).

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