First look at Skoda’s answer to Volvo C40 and Polestar 3

Skoda has published a brief teaser video of its upcoming ‘Imaginative and prescient O’ conception car, which aspects swish ‘up to the moment stable’ styling cues and a production-ready form.

The teaser displays the silhouette of a mid-sized wagon, with a liftback-vogue tailgate adorning “SKODA”-lettered badging. Skoda claims the modest safe of the Imaginative and prescient O is a conception car that is ready ‘exhibiting up…in express of exhibiting off’.

Skoda’s ‘up to the moment stable’ safe language, which consists of aspects of contemporary and minimalist, prevails in the swish, aerodynamic form of the Imaginative and prescient O. The physique aspects a sloping roofline, smash up rear spoiler, and swish ‘T’ fashioned rear tail-lights.

Skoda says the Imaginative and prescient O will characteristic an EV powertrain, and will expose “the long term of Skoda in the property model segment.”

The safe and philosophy of the Imaginative and prescient O match the description of a nameless Skoda model teased earlier this year. Described by Skoda as a ‘gargantuan household car’, this model furthermore incorporates ‘up to the moment stable’ safe and ‘T’ fashioned rear lights. It is unconfirmed if this car is genuinely the Imaginative and prescient O.

The Imaginative and prescient O will premiere in Munich on September 8th.

Alternatives for sensible EV station wagons are scarce in Australia, with elongated homely-overs equivalent to the Volvo C40 and Polestar 3 typically filling the void. Top class options like Porsche’s Taycan 4 Despicable Turismo or BMW’s i5 Touring are extra ‘pure’, however come at a hefty place.

Project supervisor Daniel Edr claims the Skoda Imaginative and prescient O’s ‘functionality-first’ safe drew inspiration from early Skoda Octavia items. He went on to keep in touch about how the Imaginative and prescient O need to nonetheless embody the handy, work-centered values which surround an property physique form.

Exterior vogue designer Jounggeen Kim said that extra inspiration for the Imaginative and prescient O’s safe came from aspects of the Roomster and Yeti, particularly the bumpers and B-pillar.

Skoda published in a 2022 press liberate that three electric autos would rapidly be announced which would both incorporate ‘up to the moment stable’ safe and express beneath the Enyaq midsize electric in the model hierarchy.

The Skoda Elroq itsy-bitsy EV SUV, which was as soon as announced dull final year, indubitably suits this pledge, and so too need to nonetheless the Imaginative and prescient O. Which procedure pricing need to nonetheless fall between $50,000 and $80,000 outdated to on-street prices.

We await that the production model Imaginative and prescient O will characteristic a connected powertrain options as the Elroq, chiefly, a lithium ion battery with a nominal skill of round 80kWh, a WLTP vary between 500-600km, and rapid 10-80 p.c DC cost time of round half-hour.

Ask the Imaginative and prescient O vary to span as a minimum two items, with options of a performance dual-motor all-wheel power or long-vary single-motor rear driver. We await high strength outputs to repeat the Enyaq; 210kW/545Nm for the RWD, and 250kW/679Nm for the AWD.