The new pseudo-SUV Czech’s all the boxes. Okay, we'll stop.
After pulling the wraps off of the facelift Octavia a few weeks ago, followed by the Octavia vRS earlier this week, Czech carmaker Skoda has unveiled the final piece in the Octavia puzzle: The facelift Octavia Scout.
The Scout has always been marketed as a soft-roader for burgeoning families who need a little more capability off-road to go with their estate car. Whatever the category this car fits into through, the Octavia Scout has been revised to fall in line with the rest of the facelift Octavia range, while maintaining some of the bits that were never really wrong with it in the first place.
The exterior changes are, for the most part, limited to the divisive front end, now featuring four headlights (rather than the pre-facelifts paltry two), amalgamating in a face capable of sparking arguments. Moving (swiftly) away from that face, the rest of the bodywork remains largely similar to the outgoing Scout, retaining the plastic cladding and raised ride height that has become synonymous with the moniker.
Engines offered number just two, and they’re both 2.0-litre turbodiesels. The lesser of the two oil burners produces 110kW, while the higher-tuned power plant manages 135kW. Power goes through a seven-speed dual-clutch DSG automatic, hitting the ground through all four wheels. The Scout bears an additional 30mm in ride height, and tacks on plastic underbody protection and reinforcements for the brake and fuel lines.
The Octavia Scout soldiers on with the same practicality as the Octavia estate, with 610-litres of space in the rear, expandable to 1,740-litres with the seats folded. The standard safety suite offered on the rest of the Octavia range is here too, as detailed on our previous reports of the Octavia facelift, and Octavia vRS facelift.
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