Sporty new Skoda Kodiaq RS cabin revealed

Skoda is continuing to tease its Kodiaq RS less than a week before the car's official unveiling at the Paris motor show.

This time round, the Czech car-maker has chosen to reveal the RS SUV's cabin.

Compared to the regular Kodiaq, the performance flagship RS gets a pair of new sport front seats that are trimmed in leather and Alcantara and feature integrated head restraints.

Other changes include sporty red stitching for the seats, armrests, door trims, gear lever and gaiter and the steering wheel.

Look up, and there's what looks like a headlining trimmed in black Alcantara.

The dash, meanwhile, gains black carbon-fibre style trim that also adorns the tops of the doors, while the driver gets a flat-bottom steering wheel with the car-maker's new 'RS' badging.

The latest tease follows a string of images and one record-breaking video that's been released in the build-up to the performance-enhanced seven-seat SUV's launch.

Skoda has already announced its new performance flagship will be diesel-powered, and share the 2.0-litre twin-turbo diesel that's already under the bonnet of the range-topping Volkswagen Tiguan.

Like its German cousin, the Kodiaq RS will push out 177kW and 500Nm of torque.

That should ensure it hits 100km/h in 6.5 seconds and will top out at around 230km/h.

Proving it doesn't hang about, Skoda has already posted a video of a disguised car recording a 9:29.84 lap time at the Nurburgring – a time the car-maker claims makes it the fastest seven-seat vehicle to ever lap the 'Green Hell'.

As well as being fast in a straight line, the record lap of the Nordschleife can also be attributed to the significant chassis tuning the Kodiaq RS has undergone.

As well as bigger brakes, large new 20-inch wheels, Skoda's fastest ever SUV comes with reworked suspension that includes new adaptive dampers.

Externally, as well as a sporty body kit that features a redesigned front and rear bumpers and a not too subtle boot spoiler, the Kodiaq RS gets gloss black highlights for the window frames, mirrors and roof rails.

Skoda Australia has already declared it's keen for the new halo SUV to land Down Under but the 'hot climate' designation of our market could see it either detuned, or completely ruled out.