Reading in Auto Express that Skoda have yet to confirm the name of the Yeti replacement.  It may. It be called a Yeti after all!  Apparently they are trying to crack the Chinese market and 'Yeti' doesn't work well there as a name for a car.

Not unknown to sell the same car in another country with a different name.

Eg MX5, and wasn't the Golf different in America?

Can this be true??

 

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/skoda-yeti-name-be-ditched-karoq

This is so disappointing. Just looks like a Tiguan with a new nose, utterly banal and devoid of any quirkiness at all. I'm hoping that this is actually a new model given that it's going to be a fair bit bigger than the Yeti and that there'll be a Yeti replacement based on the smaller platform.

16 hours ago, kenfowler3966 said:

Not unknown to sell the same car in another country with a different name.

Eg MX5, and wasn't the Golf different in America?

 

MX5 = Miata

Golf = Rabbit

Once the Ateca and Kodiaq came out, the next Yeti was only ever destined to come in line with the styling cues from the rest of the range: new Octavia, Superb 3, Kodiaq etc.

 

Skoda weren't likely to have a model line different to anything else. (Ok so they did with the first Yeti, granted!)
 

Autocar the mouth piece of the VW Group have the pics with some disguise and the lowdown on the Karoq.

Perhaps our cars will become an instant collectors item for the connoisseur?

 

Be nice if used values start to rise once new ones can't be bought anymore, and ours are likely more practical in use with the boxy shape and removable seats.

 

Back door trim doesn't line up very well.

 

Is that a fog light under the headlight? Is there any camouflage around it or is that the design?

 

 

 

Camouflaged at the front, rear and side obviously since the reveal is when the reveal is and these are the usual 'sneak' pictures approved by Skoda CZ to get magazine coverage and internet.

Likely organised by the Haymarket Media Group who have the VW Group as a Customer and who own Autocar, What Car, Piston Heads etc.

Can't be a fog light, it is too high up, and it looks like there are plastic panels over parts of the lights.

Various other "camouflage" covers elsewhere 

Edited 27 April, 20179 yr by Llanigraham

It's no higher up than the pre-facelift Yeti's foglight was.

It's official  now.....

 

 

 

Video from Autobild 

 

 

On 27/04/2017 at 16:57, Llanigraham said:

Can't be a fog light, it is too high up, and it looks like there are plastic panels over parts of the lights.

Various other "camouflage" covers elsewhere 

It certainly could be a fog light.  In our facelift S3 the fog lights are now included within the LED headlight unit.  I too thought they had to be close to road level, but I imagine that LED characteristics have made this unnecessary.

Golf IV had fog lights in the headlights units in some cases too.

 

What function are those lights on the Kodiaq? They will be the same.

Until recently, Skoda had maintained some ember of originality and intellectual independence with regard to their portfolio (unlike other brands under VAG group). I do not know if Dieselgate was the trigger or not, but after the targeted elimination of the great (and original) Yeti & Roomster, it is possible to say that Skoda completely lost its independence and fell at the foot of Wolfsburg bean counters.

 

Too bad 

1 hour ago, HeavyMetalRich said:

Golf IV had fog lights in the headlights units in some cases too.

 

 

If I remember correctly so did my 51 plate Octavia MK1 Vrs

Roomster sales, UK or even world wide were abysmal, and no matter how much SKODA (VW Group) spin the success of the YETI in world wide sales and the demand and meeting sales of the competition it is spin and not based on fact, sales or first registrations.

 

Good cars, cars that people want, but in the numbers game not a Global Sales Success, not even a Skoda Model Sales success.

 

Skoda press releases last September (2016) said.

580,000 Yeti First Registered since 2009 World Wide. 10% were First Registered in the UK.

(So not all sold as new to customers, lots to Dealerships then sold as Ex-Demonstrators, or VW Group owned and leased quite often at very good leasing costs like in 2017, also lots were sold to Motability Finance who were doing very good deals to Motability Customers.)

 

Best UK First Registrations in the UK for the Skoda Yeti were in 2015.  13,000 cars.

 

PS

Skoda UK managed to get Dealers punting more Yeti in 2016 after starting 'Good Deals', announcing the demise etc, 

so then First Registered more than they did in 2015. Not necessarily sold more new, but they did First Register more.

http://skoda.co.uk/news/skoda-posts-record-uk-sales-in-2016 

Edited 30 April, 20179 yr by Awayoffski

The Roomster always looked bizarre with the higher windows in the rear doors. I would not have considered owning one.

 

Hard to believe it is so close to the Yeti in interior detail, front doors etc.

 

I wanted a Yeti from the first time I saw one and couldn't believe my luck when it appeared as an option on the company car scheme at the same time. Previously it was Ford, Rover or vauxhall only!

The Roomster didn't share anything with the Yeti (except the varioflex rear seats) - it's interior was based on the Fabia (Mark II) and its platform was based on a mix of Fabia (front suspension) and Octavia I/Golf IV (rear suspension), while the Yeti is based on the Golf V platform.

 

However, both the Roomster and Yeti were brilliant and original designs that were unique compared with the equivalent VAG mould (actually, the Roomster didn't have any comparable models within VAG). The only original Skoda concept that sustained is the Octavia with its unique liftback concept. I agree that the Roomster was not successful (from pure business perspective), but the Yeti was quite successful so I don't really understand why they 'killed' it. 

Edited 1 May, 20179 yr by menir1

I've never hankered after a Yeti but would be interested in its replacement, which appears to have been given the name "Karoq". One reason is that my wife has scant regard for what the Yeti looks like. She calls it a van when she feels generous or a "box on wheels" when she's less sympathetic. I have a Mark 2 Superb which I love. However, it's pretty big to handle round town and it's caught up in the "Dieselgate" carry-on, which I've commented on already elsewhere in this forum. In my mid-60s, I'm looking at an alternative to the Superb. I'd like a car that will be easier than the Superb to get in and out of and which would run on petrol. The current Yeti, even if I could persuade my wife that she wouldn't see the van shape while she was driving it, doesn't offer what I would ideally like - a reasonably powerful petrol engine with the DSG box. The nearest I would get is the 1.2 TSI 110hp engine which I know all about from driving my wife's Mark 3 Fabia with the same engine and box. It's quite good to drive but just lacks a bit of shove. The Yeti replacement, whatever daft name they end up giving it, will offer me the latest 1.5 TSI engine with 150hp and a DSG box, and 0-60 in just over 8 seconds. As well as that, it will be slightly bigger at nearly 4.4 metres, be built on the latest MBQ platform, have significantly more storage and, if you believe the press reviews, suffer no increase in price. On balance, respecting the sincere criticism from the diehards about losing the Yeti's unique identity, I'd rather have the replacement model because it looks to address most of the things that the Yeti couldn't offer me. For what it's worth, I'd be happy for the Wolfsburg mafia to sanction the continued production of the Yeti alongside the replacement. But given that choice, I know which one I'd be buying. 

I agree with all the above, particularly the comments regarding engine choice.  Diesels are no longer flavour of the moment and it is necessary for car manufacturers to provide a better range of petrol and hybrid engines - which the Karoq clearly will. 

 

The reason that the latest SUVs (and for that matter most PMCs) all look similar is because that is what appeals to the mass car market and therefore sells.  I'm afraid that the owners on here who sing the praises of the current Yeti and denigrate the newer SUVs are in the very significant minority among the general car buying public.  It therefore follows that if they weren't then most new cars would all look similar to the Yeti.  

 

I've said it before on here but cars are no less fashion items theses days than clothes.  Fashion has moved on and most people are now driving what we see on the roads every day in their thousands.