RobertAndrews

Lease ends July 31, and I'm absolutely coming up against the challenges you mention... microchip shortage, customer demand. What's more, if I went Sportage again, I'd like the almost-announced facelift, which is reckoned for March availability, or, if I pushed up to Sorento, that's supposedly six months - even four months for a current-gen Sportage. The cars I'm looking at are Kodiaq and Tarraco, maybe Sportage/Sorento, maybe 5008/C4 Grand Spacetourer/CR-V. It's a perfect storm. I will have use of other family cars (Corsa and Seat Leon estate), so it's not a disaster, but still really tough to buy at the moment. Anyway, it was sort of an in-principle question, notwithstanding all those issues - the idea of taking an SE base and loading it up to SE L equivalence to benefit from the extra boot space in a 5-seat model. But I guess you're saying, even assuming that's not cray, the supply issues may be compounded further by a custom-spec of this kind (?).

Hi, I'm shopping around for a new car to replace my outgoing Sportage lease. I'm exploring whether my budget pushes to a car with a larger boot. I'm interested in Kodiaq, probably around the SE L mark, facelift version. I don't need a 7-seater car - as in, I don't need 7 seats. If I go larger, it would be for the boot. And I understand the Kodiaq's 5-seat model offers more boot space than the 7-seat. But I also believe 5 seats is only on the base SE model. The question, then, is ... given all the customisation options, is it viable to start with Kodiaq SE as a base and spec it up to something like SE L equivalence? A local dealer I briefly chatted with today, between his other customer visits, said it's possible but the seat upgrade, in particular, would be very expensive. Any thoughts on this? Thanks.