The Skoda Kodiaq is
about to be turned into a two-door pickup by Skoda’s vocational students. The
35 young men and women are being assisted by the brand’s engineers and
Technical Development staff and will be presenting the finished project in
June.
Offering a glimpse
into the vehicle is an official rendering which points out the obvious: a
single-cab body style with an open bed behind the two seats. Elsewhere, the
Kodiaq Pickup gets plastic cladding, chunky off-road rubber and perhaps more
ground clearance.
The Kodiaq Pickup
is a concept, so don’t look for it in Skoda’s showrooms. It’s the company’s
latest study made by students from the Skoda Academy in Mlada Boleslav, Czech
Republic, and continues a tradition that started in 2014 with the Citijet.
Known internally as the ‘Little Bruiser’, it was a convertible version of the
Citigo, with seating for two inside and a two-tone paintjob on the outside.
In 2015, they
presented the Funstar, a Fabia pickup with a professional sound system, and a
year later they uncovered the Atero, a 3-door coupe variant of the Rapid
Spaceback. Another Citigo-based project was shown in 2017. Called the Element,
it was an open-top model with an electric powertrain that was fitted with a
refrigerator and a 108 cm TV. Meanwhile last year, the students came
up with the Sunroq, a convertible Karoq with redesigned A and B pillars and
readjusted doors.
