Skoda in four bitesize chunks

The little things making a big di erence

FINER DETAILS Skoda does little things to make owners all gooey. The Kodiaq Edition has hidden umbrellas, a boot light you can use as a torch and swingout door protectors to avoid car-park dings. Blankets are nice, but even with winged head restraints you can’t justify £325 on a ‘sleep pack’. SUPER SCREEN The 9.2-inch sat-nav touchscreen is a thing of utter beauty (named Columbus after the Mrs Doubtfire movie director Chris no doubt). Big screens o er no hiding place for poor graphics and bad colour/typeface choices, but Volkswagen Group never misses a beat on this stu . NERVOUS PARKER The rear parking sensors are nervous wrecks, freaking out about adjacent cars when you park perpendicularly. One morning it bleeped code red at the rear left side, so I got out to look and there was a metre of space behind! It must have feared I was going to shunt that Mini. Annoying. NEED A TOW?

No surprises that a rearwheel-drive BMW on skinny tyres struggles in a snowdome. Kodiaq, an award-winning tow car, to the rescue! All-wheel drive and oodles of grunt e ortlessly tugged out the 530e. PHIL MCNAMARA

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