Skoda Kodiaq Lease Deals

Why Lease a Skoda Kodiaq?

The Kodiaq is the car a lot of people end up on after test driving several much more expensive seven seaters. It carries seven seats, 2,035 litres of load space with everything folded, and it will tow between 1,800kg and 2,500kg depending on which engine you choose.

It is also one of the few remaining SUVs of this size where you can still order a diesel. There are two in the range. If you tow a caravan, a horsebox or a trailer, or you cover serious motorway mileage, that is not nostalgia, it is the right engine for the job, and the choice is disappearing fast across the rest of the market. This generation took five Euro NCAP stars when it was tested in 2024.

Does the Skoda Kodiaq Plug-in Hybrid Have Seven Seats?

We are going to be honest and put this first rather than bury it, because it is the single most common misunderstanding on this car and it is the sort of thing you really do not want to discover late.

The Kodiaq iV plug-in hybrid is a five seater. Not a seven seater with the third row as an option. Five seats, full stop. The battery occupies the space the third row would use, so it is simply not there.

That matters because the two reasons people come to a Kodiaq pull in opposite directions. If you want it because it seats seven, the plug-in hybrid is not your car. If you want it because the plug-in hybrid gives you a far lower company car tax bill, you are buying a five seat Kodiaq. The vRS is the exception worth knowing about: it is a 2.0 TSI petrol, it is quick, and it does have seven seats. Tell us which of the two things you care about more and we will aim the quote properly rather than letting you work it out from a spec sheet.

Skoda Kodiaq Engines and Trim Levels

Six engines and six trim levels, which sounds complicated until you work out which of the three jobs below you are actually asking the car to do.

Trims run SE, Edition X, SE L, SportLine, L&K and vRS, the same ladder you will see on the Octavia and across the rest of the Skoda range. L&K stands for Laurin & Klement, the two men who founded the company, and it is Skoda's top luxury grade rather than a sporting one. SportLine is the styling grade and vRS is the actual performance car.

Skoda Kodiaq iV Electric Range and Charging

Setting the seat count aside, the Kodiaq iV is one of the better plug-in hybrids on sale, and for two specific reasons.

The first is the range. Up to 76 miles on electricity alone, from a 25.7kWh gross battery, is a long way beyond the 30 or 40 miles a lot of plug-in hybrids manage. For most people that is the commute done twice over without the engine starting.

The second is that it takes a 40kW DC rapid charge. Most plug-in hybrids charge on AC only, which means a public rapid charger is no use to you at all. Being able to add meaningful range in a motorway services stop changes how usable the electric side actually is. It is a detail almost nobody mentions and it is one of the strongest things about the car.

Skoda Kodiaq Boot Space and Towing Weight

Seven seat cars get quoted selectively, so here is every figure side by side.

The 340 litres with all three rows upright is a usable amount rather than a token one, which is not true of every seven seater. The plug-in hybrid loses a little to the battery even as a five seater.

Towing runs from 1,800kg to 2,500kg depending on the engine, and that spread is wide enough to matter. If you are towing anything substantial, give us the weight and we will confirm the figure on the exact derivative before you commit, rather than you finding out it is the lower number.

On safety the Kodiaq holds five Euro NCAP stars from a 2024 test, so it was assessed under recent criteria rather than an old protocol. If you want the same from an electric car, the Enyaq is the direct alternative, and the Karoq is the smaller five seat petrol option if seven seats turn out not to be the point. For a seven seat estate rather than an SUV, the Superb Estate carries a bigger boot on five seats, and the obvious rivals worth putting next to it are the Peugeot 5008 and the Kia Sorento.

Skoda Kodiaq Warranty and Company Car Tax

Skoda's warranty is two years with no mileage limit plus a third year up to 60,000 miles, whichever comes sooner, with a 12 year body protection warranty on top. The plug-in hybrid's high voltage battery carries its own separate cover, and we will confirm the exact terms on the derivative you are quoted.

For a business lease the iV plug-in hybrid is the obvious pick, because its CO2 figure puts it in a far lower benefit in kind band than the petrol or diesel versions and the driver feels that every month. Remember it is five seats. Those bands change each tax year, so take the current figures from your accountant. If you need seven seats on a company car and the tax matters, an electric seven seater is usually the better conversation, and we will show you both sets of numbers side by side rather than steering you.

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