The Skoda Mountiaq Is A Winch-Toting Pickup Built By Students

Skoda apprentices have turned a Kodiaq SUV into a full-blown pickup complete with light bar, ride height lift and nose-mounted winch
The Skoda Mountiaq Is A Winch-Toting Pickup Built By Students

Skoda has revealed a bright orange pickup with a winch, a light bar and massive off-road tyres. Sadly, it’s not a new production model: it’s the fruit of a project carried out by Skoda apprentices.

This snorkel-packing, bullbar-nosed punk cousin of the painfully straight-laced Kodiaq rides some 10cm higher than the tallest production version (the Scout) thanks to vast Falken Wildpeak A/T tyres over 17-inch Rockstar II wheels bedecked with Skoda Academy centre caps.

The Skoda Mountiaq Is A Winch-Toting Pickup Built By Students

Below its grille, framed by the animal-unfriendly bullbar and lovely Sunset Orange paintwork, is a winch designed to haul what’s being dubbed the Mountiaq out of any sticky situation in which it might find itself.

The Mountiaq measures a millimetre under five metres long, 5mm over two metres wide and stands 1710mm tall. Under the bonnet is a 187bhp TSI turbocharged petrol engine, but don’t expect speed: this one-off pickup weighs a portly 2450kg.

The Skoda Mountiaq Is A Winch-Toting Pickup Built By Students

To build it, Skoda’s students spent time reinforcing the chassis in the right places before removing half of the roof, joining the remainder to a rear cab panel and fitting new windows. The doors were shortened and widened to suit the wider body, then the metal-based load bay was kitted out with a suite of under-floor storage cupboards for your lifestyle bits and bobs.

The driver can have their tunes as loud as the paintwork thanks to the addition of a 2000W amplifier and a 2000W subwoofer. If that’s not blingy enough you’ll find lighting effects in the front grille, the bonnet logo and engine bay. The front doors even project a Skoda logo down onto the floor when open.

The Skoda Mountiaq Is A Winch-Toting Pickup Built By Students

There’s an integrated refrigerator and two walkie-talkies, which are both nice features to have if you’re spending a day away from it all. They’ve stopped short of going full USA, though, as there’s nowhere to put an assault rifle.

It took the team of junior staffers over 2000 hours to make, with one of the hardest challenges said to be making a fully-functional integrated tailgate. A more fun part of the assignment was developing the new Mountiaq logo: a Skoda SUV’s front profile against a mountain range. It’s stitched in orange into this concept’s leather upholstery, to match the orange contrasting stitching.

The Skoda Mountiaq Is A Winch-Toting Pickup Built By Students

We’ve got to be honest: we kinda like it. We’ve no idea whether it would really stand up to the abuse working pickups actually get (and we’re not likely to find out), but we like it anyway.

Comments

Olivier (CT's grammar commie)

That’s honestly a nice truck, and I believe it’s nice enough for an exposition. I think that’s seriously well done as a student project, but most other student projects generally look that good anyway.

06/03/2019 - 13:52 |
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REAL_sluggo

Because EVERY bloke needs a snorkel on their daily driver as they wend their way to work on the M25. Amidst stop-n-go traffic

06/03/2019 - 14:34 |
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Not everyone lives in where ever the M25 is

06/03/2019 - 16:46 |
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Never know they might need it for the odd flood once every few years that blocks part of the road 😂

06/12/2019 - 08:59 |
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CannedRex24

i never knew i needed this in my life.

but i absolutely do now

06/03/2019 - 14:43 |
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CannedRex24

now this is a student project i can actually take part in

06/03/2019 - 14:44 |
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Anonymous

I like that the snorkle looks like a flexed arm.

06/03/2019 - 15:00 |
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Kenji (Oldsmobile Fan) (GoldWing Enthusiast) (wheel nut)

Let’s wait til arctic trucks gets a hold of this

06/03/2019 - 17:27 |
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Lord Saucius The Divine

Not really a fan of mid-sized trucks, but I like this!

06/03/2019 - 21:01 |
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Basith Penna-Hakkim

This is pretty cool!

06/03/2019 - 21:53 |
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That_1_Guy

Not what I expected, but I would love to see it in action

06/03/2019 - 22:46 |
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YellowKomodo

Where can i buy one!?

06/04/2019 - 18:01 |
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