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Can the Karoq serve as an ideal family weekend getaway vehicle? We load the car up with four dudes (and their kit) to go and test out some electric motorcycles in Goa
It’s 5.30 AM. My coffee is brewed and ready to go. My colleagues, Manaal, Eshan and Nikhil, were on their way to pick me up. A road trip to Goa was in the works. The mission: to test
some new electric motorcycles from Kabira Mobility. Our steed the Skoda Karoq, the Czech company’s mid-size SUV. I get a call from Eshan, alerting their imminent arrival. At first glance, it seemed sleek and wide, quite like a jacked-up estate.
It was offered in a single variant powered by a 150PS 1.5-litre turbo-petrol engine, paired to a 7-speed DSG gearbox.
Locally assembled Karoq could bring down the price from Rs 24.99 lakh (ex-showroom).
Currently, Skoda’s focus is on the launch of the Creta-rivalling Kushaq SUV by mid-2021.
Ever since the 1,000 allocated units of Skoda’s premium compact SUV, the Karoq, sold out in India in October 2020, the SUV has been temporarily dropped from the company’s website. We’ve been eagerly waiting for the Karoq to return and now, a recent RTO document suggests it could happen pretty soon.
While the Karoq that retailed in India was a completely built-up unit (CBU), the SUV could now be locally assembled. Skoda Director Zac Hollis even mulled over it in our video interview. If the Karoq does come via this route, it will become an affordable offering, compared to its previous asking price of Rs 24.99 lakh (ex-showroom)