The Czech people from Skoda announced that the new Rapid sedan entered production at the Pune factory in India. Skoda Rapid is a new name in the automotive market and represents a small family sedan which is actually based on the Volkswagen Vento. The Czech model is 4,4 meters long, 1,7 meters wide and 1,4 meters tall. Its luggage space...
Even though Skoda is one of the manufacturers on an seriously improving trend lately and their desire to add more models to their lineup, the news isn't great. No matter how many rumors come about or how much we want it, the Czech company isn't going to be making a new small sports car. It's always pretty decent marketing to...
As the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show comes closer and closer, manufacturers begin increasing the number of teasers and concepts they plan to unveil there. In regards to Skoda's plans for the German event, they will be releasing the MissionL concept, a preshow for a new model for them The Skoda MissionL concept press release speaks of a new model the...
There's very little more to know about when it comes to the Boneville salt flats and the famous Speed Week event that's specific to them. Since we've established familiarity to what's the point of this location and this event, let's talk about something unexpected that happened there. Skoda, together with their performance partners at REVO Technik came to this event...
The Czech people from Skoda released details on the one-off modified Octavia vRS, a model headed to the Bonneville Speed Week, an event which will take place from August 13 to 20. Is true that Skoda is not necessary a very renowned name in the racing competitions but everything has a starting point, the Czechs having big plans for the...
The Autosalon Brno specially dedicated to the Czech and Central Europe customers reached its 10th edition which will be held between 4 and 9 June. As one of the most important car manufacturers, the people from Skoda are preparing several surprises for the customers which will visit the event next week. One of the interesting reveals prepared by Skoda is...
It seems like Volkswagen Golf enthusiasts will not mind if the family that is the VAG Group turns up to showcase some new concepts at their Worthersee meet. Sure, Volkswagen's presence with three models, the shiniest of which being the Golf R Cabriolet still take the center stage, but the opening act is still pretty good. Introducing us back into...
The Czech people from Skoda proudly announced that a new record for their eco-friendly GreenLine range has been established. More exactly, Gerhard Plattner, managed to drive a Fabia GreenLine 2,006 kilometers on a single tank of fuel, therefore, setting a new record in terms of economy driving. This achievement could not be missed by the officials from Skoda, the Czechs...
Skoda Fabia R2 is the new rally version of the Czech manufacturer, a model based on the current Fabia, as you probably already guessed. People from Skoda teamed up with Impromat Car in order to build the new Fabia R2, a competition model which already received FIA's homologation. Coming at a price of over €60,000, Skoda Fabia R2 is a...
Czechoslovakia must not be a country where people fool around because after promising a new concept for the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, Skoda actually came up with it. Here it is and it's called the Vision D. Since the name does tend to tip people off let's just say that it's more of a design language showcase than a concept....
The Czech automaker pretty much nobody outside of Europe has heard off promises to come to the Geneva Motor Show with a brand new concept. Now while most everybody will probably go for other stands than Skoda's one but this particular concept car will be quite important. Skoda promises that this soon to be revealed concept car will not only...
Expected to debut at Geneva, the new Skoda Fabia Monte Carlo is a limited edition of the current Fabia which is designed to celebrate 100 years since the Monte Carlo rally. The Monte Carlo rally will start on January 19, actually, the new limited edition can be seen for the first time there following its debut at Geneva. The Czech...
Overall, I'd say the VW Group isn't one for financial issues at the end of 2010. Not only have Audi's sales reached a personal best we've now heard much of the same from Skoda. The Czechs have something to be proud of. Just as the Germans how own their company have as well. When the books were made at the...
In order to celebrate better the event of winning the IRC (Intercontinental Rally Challenge), people from Skoda released a limited edition of Skoda Fabia RS. We don't know very well what is in their minds when deciding the figures such as the number of units but this time we know that the special edition of Fabia RS gets no more...
This is more a revised model than a new generation but Skoda claims that in this photo we see the second generation of the model that managed to sell in 1.4 million units and had a life of 14 years. The model gets the pre-facelifted Octavia's design at the exterior and is available in both sedan and wagon version. The...
Skoda is planning to launch a new generation of Felicia model, and in this regard an Italian designer decided to show his vision on how the new low-cost model from Skoda that will fight with Dacia Logan should look like. Skoda wants a low-cost model able to provide a pleasant design together with high quality materials but keeping the price...
Theophilus Chin, a designer from Malaysia that isn't ar his first attempt to create computer generated images known as renderings for various models. Now, he decided to create some renderings of a more family than sports car, more exactly a convertible version for the Skoda Octavia. This convertible version of Skoda Octavia is based on the top RS version of...
Czech car manufacturer Skoda Auto has also had a positive July this year, selling 58,513 units more than last year's July and ending the previous month with a 13.4 percent increase in sales compared to the year 2009 with a total of a shade over 437,000 units. This success has been attributed to the Skoda Octavia model with 24,000 units...
The VW group has shown what it can do for the market of four door coupes with the Volkswagen Passat CC and the Audi A5 Sportback and now it wows us with what the German group can do for the world of these cars. I say what it can do for the world of these cars as what we have...
VW Group's Kaluga plant in Russia has just got another assembly line on it's plate. Following the full production of the Skoda Octavia the facelifted version of it's smaller sister, the Fabia supermini has become the second model in the Skoda range to begin life over there. In case you are not aware what a full production cycle is you...
