Yogi-Bear

That's because it's a recall on the new facelift version - and I'm guessing that yours is probably an 'old' one if you've had it almost 12 months already?

I seem to remember the process being fairly quick for me when it worked, and I used the built-in SIM. I'll ignore the fact it didn't work the first two times I tried it 😉. As for 5G... it'll probably turn up round me when the rest of the country is already rolling out 6G.

I might be wrong - but I'm pretty sure the Connect stuff only uses the built-in SIM... even if you connect the car to your phone. Driving to where your phone gets a good signal probably also meant that the car itself also had a good signal there.

That's not 'every box' - unless you couldn't get some options due to chip shortages... Anyway, looks stunning in red. But then I think it looks stunning in pretty much any colour - and would probably look really cool in the hyper green from the enyaq coupe 😎.

It did at launch. I'm going from the 'normal' spec from the 1 July 2021 brochure (i.e. the first one for the facelift models) and ignoring the effects of chip shortages - they've skewed the specs out of all recognition. \ (edit: and as you can see, the vRS never had it in the first place)

Nothing to do with chip shortages - in the UK, the vRS does not come with the cross-traffic / blind spot stuff as standard. Or, at least, it didn't at launch which is when I ordered it. No idea if that's changed now (probably not - if you want all the toys, you get the L&K... if you want the engine, you get the vRS).

No idea. I'm not a fan of the thought of hacking my new car and potentially breaking it... especially with all the component protection stuff that's baked into it these days.

No. Changing the interior lighting colour also changes the background colour of the virtual cockpit. That's the only changes to colours that you can do.

Wrong! Never gets old... Told 'em they can have heated seats in the back when they're old enough to buy their own car. Took them a while to realise that they won't be in the back at that point...

I didn't do a damn thing (other than vacuum the seats occasionally) in 3.5 years of ownership... and there was nothing wrong with them by the end. If anything, they were better than new because they'd softened up a bit.

To be fair, it's almost worth it for the extra sensors on the sides, even if you never use the automated parking.

I'd have quite happily had the blind spot / reverse cross traffic stuff as I had them on my previous Edition - but I wasn't going to pay through the nose for them. Can't believe the vRS doesn't come with them to be honest. I also had the 360 cameras last time, but used them less and less as I got used to the size of the thing. You may find the same with regards to the park assist as you get used to yours.

The only need a Jag would ever meet is "must break down every 5 miles". I would never argue that a JLR car doesn't have desirable looks... and I'd take a F-type coupe if someone gave it to me... but they consistently come towards the bottom end of reliability and satisfaction surveys for a reason.

Swipe down from the top of the screen for the quick access / notifications. Select notifications, and there should be one about the update. From there, you can get to the update and start it.

That's the point... I'm not convinced they are much cheaper any more. It's all down to which styling you prefer, really.

Guess this will be my last Kodiaq then. Only reason I bought 2 of them is because it's a mobile fridge 😃. Seriously though - all the 'simply clever' stuff is slowly but surely disappearing, and the price differential is closing to VW as well. So what's the point of Skoda as a marque now? Where's the USP?

Indeed... from the advert: AVAILABLE FROM: 17/08/2022 # # This car is not currently an Approved Used Car and will only be supplied to you when all the Approved Used Car Standards are met.

Yes - the VC will only show the speed limit through sign recognition. As you say, if you don't have that, the main infotainment screen will just show the speed limit based from the map data - but you can't (as far as I know) get that to display on the VC.

Don’t confuse ‘luxury’ with the arbitrary value that the government assigned to it. If the purpose of that move was to charge more for ‘luxury’ cars, then that value would need to increase in line with the car market. It hasn’t, so the only conclusion is that ‘luxury’ was a pretence for a major step in RFL. At the rate we’re going, you’ll be paying the extra RFL on a Fiesta in 10 years.

In just about every way it matters. Except badge snobbery. Oh, and dashboard - really hope they put a proper size virtual cockpit in the facelift, whenever that turns up. Don't like the teeny tiny display that's in there now. Oh, and I'd rather they went back to knobs for the a/c controls - don't like all this touchscreen for everything crap... although the CarPlay stuff that Apple showed off the other week might make me change my mind 😄.

Bulgaria is a lot closer to the factory than the UK...

The aforementioned 12.3" digital cluster, for one thing... Some pretentious, pointless functionality in the front light clusters, for another (I never said it was stuff you actually wanted!)

It'll work itself down... just think how long it took for Skoda to get any sort of virtual cockpit. Or scrolling indicators. Or matrix headlights. If you want to know what your Skoda will be like in 5 years, take a look at an Audi today.

The torque is there - you just have to wait a couple of seconds for the DSG box to think about it, do the shifts, and then it moves like a bee has just stung its bottom. Yes, the engine is capable of more (it's the same as the lump that's in a Golf R, after all) and it would be nice to unlock that potential as the chassis could easily cope with it, but I'd settle for the DSG being more responsive, that would increase the perception of 'quickness' and the enjoyment, even if it doesn't actually make it any quicker.

Always said it was a very good engine, and quicker than the book claimed.