Škoda’s honourable Scout

Škoda’s overhaul of the entire Octavia family concludes with the Scout ‘lifestyle estate’, a vehicle developed along the growing-in-popularity trend of jacking a car up and then fitting it with various bits of rugged body addenda to present an air of adventure and escapism that eludes regular family wagons.

There are plenty of brands doing this sort of thing today, as it’s a useful halfway house between a regular road-going machine and a ...