Good signs for Skoda as Kodiaq arrives

It has been pretty obvious for some time now — to me anyway — that the VW ‘dieselgate’ scandal was going to have a massive and very positive effect on two companies within the Volkswagen Group.

VW, of course, owns subsidiaries such as Lamborghini, Bugatti and Bentley which operate at the stratospheric end of the market, and others such as Audi, Seat, and Škoda, which don’t.

Given that the German automotive giant’s prime profit source came from the Volkswagen brand itself, the fall-out from the cheating ‘defeat device’ which disguised emission levels was always going to affect the parent company more than the others.