I've read before that the 5-seater Kodiaq has a boot space of 720 liters. But now this page says that it is 835 liters: https://www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/skoda-model/kodiaq/

 

What changed? And how?

In the handout I have it says 720 litres in the five-seater model, rising to 2,005 litres if you fold the rear seat. The seven-seater Kodiaq is (630 litres with five seats in place), and 270 litres with seven seats in place.

Maybe the 720 litres is measured with the rear (middle) seats fully back, and the higher figure is if you slide them fully forward and put them fully upright?

1 hour ago, DaveMiller said:

Maybe the 720 litres is measured with the rear (middle) seats fully back, and the higher figure is if you slide them fully forward and put them fully upright?

That might be it. However, both illustrations show the same length from the back lip of the boot and to the seats (1165 mm). So one of them is not correct.

 

 

The lower picture also shows much greater headroom for the front seats! However the 835l measurement is also followed by two asterisks. What does the corresponding footnote say?  

You need to watch out for when they use the Spare Tyre well volume as included in Boot Space for when Spare Wheels may not be 'Standard Equipment' in models / countries.

Then the Spare Wheel may not be included in the 'Kerb weight' for the WLTP / RDE2.

 

From an old thread from another forum not related to this OP.

 

I wish more brands would use the VDA boot measurements so we can get a more definitive measurement of boot space. 

19 hours ago, CJJE said:

The lower picture also shows much greater headroom for the front seats! However the 835l measurement is also followed by two asterisks. What does the corresponding footnote say?  

I couldn't find the footnote that the asterisks were referring to. However, a PDF document on the page had this information:

18 hours ago, ZacDaMan72 said:

I wish more brands would use the VDA boot measurements so we can get a more definitive measurement of boot space. 

 

I’m not sure about that.  There are really two things I want to know:

- how much stuff can I get in there, and

- can I get such-and-such an object in there?

 

In the second case, the object changes: bike, chair, garden ornament, whatever.  The particular shape of the object governs what measurements I need to check and a size for the biggest possible rectangular box doesn’t help.  (The biggest box that can sit in the boot is also different from the biggest box that can get through the tailgate/bootlid.)

 

Most of the time, though, I’ll be packing a variety of different things, which can be configured to make use of the way odd corners and bulges are present.  Here, the overall capacity gives a useful indication.

Edited 14 September, 20205 yr by DaveMiller

5 hours ago, DaveMiller said:

 

I’m not sure about that.  There are really two things I want to know:

- how much stuff can I get in there, and

- can I get such-and-such an object in there?

 

In the second case, the object changes: bike, chair, garden ornament, whatever.  The particular shape of the object governs what measurements I need to check and a size for the biggest possible rectangular box doesn’t help.  (The biggest box that can sit in the boot is also different from the biggest box that can get through the tailgate/bootlid.)

 

Most of the time, though, I’ll be packing a variety of different things, which can be configured to make use of the way odd corners and bulges are present.  Here, the overall capacity gives a useful indication.

True. When I'm buying a new car my primary consideration is whether the boot is bigger or small than my present car, and whether it has features like a hidden compartment under the boot floor. So in practice, once I've decided a car is viable it's off to a dealer with a tape measure to compare the old with then new.