Grafting the vRS badge onto a seven-seater ought to have been sacrilege. It wasn't.
Note for reference: car weight and power data is hard to pin down with absolute certainty. For consistency, we use the same source for all our guides. We hope the data we use is right more often than it’s wrong. Our advice is to treat it as relative rather than definitive. There was nothing much to be gained from exploring the upper reaches of the diesel’s rev band in any of the intermediate gears.
The DSG gearbox worked really well on both versions of the Kodiaq vRS, although it was keen to get into top at the earliest opportunity and it did automatically change up at the redline whether you wanted it to or not. The plastic used to make the paddles was not an inspiring substance but the mechanism itself worked sweetly, with fast upshifts and practically imperceptible downshifts. DSG Mechatronic units are known for failing but we haven’t heard of this in relation to the Kodiaq vRS.
There were six drive modes and even in the most sportlicher one the ride comfort was perfectly acceptable. Skoda had a name for the Kodiaq vRS’s steering: ‘Progressive Steering’. The more you turned the wheel the faster it became. Two turns took you from lock to lock, useful for low-speed fiddling about. In terms of feel Progressive Steering was by no means a step forward but it was quite good at delivering the steering angle that you felt you were asking it to deliver.
Remarkably, some earlier Kodiaqs developed rust rash on the rear bumper. It was remarkable because the bumpers were made of plastic. Legend has it that this really happened and that it was down to iron fallout from the brakes on the trains used to get the cars from the factory to the port. Iron particles would embed in the bumper paint and then go rusty. Well! You learn something new every day.
The Travel Assist function could fail as a result of a software fault that as of late January this year still hadn’t been rectified. Probably has by now though, which is just as well if true because it would keep beeping you every few seconds until you fixed it or turned the car off. That would be annoying. Some brake pedals on Kodiaqs built in a three-day period in July 2020 were found to be inadequately welded, causing a recall.
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