^^^ I think it all depends what you expect from the car. Many will find the 1.4/1.5 sufficiently adequate, however some will not. 

Relative performances are not something that can be recommended and should be taken with caution as one man's quick car will be another man's dead in the water.

Silver1011 seems delighted with his 1.4 kodiaqs capabilities and his opinion is quite rightly valid. 

When I shopped for my Kodiaq I felt the 1.5tsi was not upto the job I required (1.4 was no longer available) and regularly loaded up with people and stuff with some towing and a lot of up hill and down dale, combined with the need for snappy overtaking on our rural roads meant I chose the 2.0tsi 190 and so it seems isn't much harder on fuel than 4x4 1.4's for the extra bit of poke. 

Apologies for hijacking the thread there but I thought it a point worth making. 

Edited 25 October, 20196 yr by Gmac983

54 minutes ago, Gmac983 said:

^^^ I think it all depends what you expect from the car. Many will find the 1.4/1.5 sufficiently adequate, however some will not. 

Relative performances are not something that can be recommended and should be taken with caution as one man's quick car will be another man's dead in the water.

Totally agree.

 

Having said that when I retired I sold my Audi B7 RS4 (420PS) for a 1.4TSI Octavia (140PS) - yes the performance is on a totally different level, but I still get held up by many slower accelerating cars and I can still cruise at(!) the legal speed limits. So the 1.4TSI Octavia definitely isn't anywhere near the slowest car on the road, but it's IMHO a good compromise between mpg and enjoyment.