I've found a weakness of Skoda's. The tow ball load limits are quite low.

Been looking at getting a caravan and on paper my car should be fine for a smaller van. Diesel, 1600kg load limit, but only 75kg ball limit. Even the Kodiak's limit is 80kg! A lot of European cars have a limit under 100kg. They just do caravan stability differently - rather than rely on the brute force of weight to achieve it, they rely on more finely balanced vans and stability hitches.

You can forget about any Australian style vans. You're restricted to European ones, but even amongst those there aren't many that have a tare ball weight light enough for an Octavia (in Australia).