There’s a rule of thumb in the brotherhood of road testers that says if all you can find to criticise about a car is the way it looks, then it’s a good car. In the 4×4 game, we call it the Terrano II effect, or at least we do if we’re depressingly old.
Conversely, if the only thing you can say about a car is that it looks good, that suggests it’s not much of a car. We all know, though, that there are many people who buy a car for that reason alone – and indeed who will reject one because they just don’t like the look of it.
So where does that leave us with this Skoda Karoq? We clapped eyes on it at the new Kodiaq launch earlier this year
and spent the rest of the day engaged in ridiculous fanboying over its paint. As did everybody else. It’s called Phoenix Orange and it’s just stunning – when we’re not doing this magazine we tend to be found hanging around hot rods, a world in which people routinely spend five-figure sums on paintwork, and this here Skoda would stand out alongside more or less any of them.
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