Skoda makes the muscles and provides the Octavia will also back as a sporty RS model. As the car manufacturer announced, the car in December in Germany and about $ 1,000 more expensive than the predecessor. The prices are likely to be just under 26 000 euros. There is now a two-litre gasoline direct, with the help of a turbocharger 147 kW/200 hp and up to 280 Newton metres torque on the road. (more…)
With record figures for sales, earnings, production and delivery of Skoda in fiscal year 2005 growth accelerated.
492,111 customers in some 90 countries last year bought a Skoda (compared with 451,675 in 2004). This represents an increase of nine percent in a stagnating market environment.
Old love does not rust: The Skoda Octavia Combi is the most popular import car “in eastern Germany. This title awarded him the election “Our car” the readers of over 100 regional newspapers in the new federal states. (more…)
Messages on Å koda often seem somewhat with the East zutun to have: A few weeks ago we learned that the Skoda Octavia Combi the most popular import car “in eastern Germany and that of Octavia in the next year in the Russian Kaluga from the assembly lines rolling . This week informed the subsidiary of VW now also announced that from 2007 cars in China will produce and sell, and 40,000 vehicles initially and then the future 80,000 per year. (more…)
With an excellent result is June-Skoda drittstärkster importer again in Germany. According to KBA this month were 11,170 vehicles of the mark with the winged arrow. This represents a market share of 3.4 percent. From January to June 58,295 customers opted for a Skoda. Compared with the comparable period of 2005 means an increase of 5.3 percent. Among the brands are importer before the Czech car-maker Renault and Toyota only. Overall, Skoda occupied the ninth place in the German registration statistics.
Skoda is one of the oldest, still producing automobile manufacturers in the world. Defeats or planned economy could neither the founding fathers of the company, Laurin and Klement, nor its many successors slow. Last but not least, the joint venture with Volkswagen Group in 1991 represented a significant milestone in the history of traditional brand Skoda dar. originally from a model with an annual production of 170,000 vehicles and exports to 30 countries, mostly to Central and Eastern Europe, production now more than tripled. Four models are now available to choose from: Fabia, Octavia, Superb and the new Roomster.
A Octavia Elegance is the 10-millionth car, Skoda, when the band is gone. On 13 Bestsellers in June left the Czech manufacturer of the factory hall in Mlada Boleslav. This was also the first car, the L & K Voiturette, built in 1905. Since then, in the Czech industrial city 101 years moving automotive history.
Shortly after the start of the 1905 car production was the company’s founders Vaclav Laurin and Vaclav Klement succeeded, the good reputation of the brand L & K and their vehicles in the whole world hinauszutragen. Thus not only orders from Europe but also from New Zealand and Japan. A technical highlight was the first eight-cylinder engine, then L & K type F, built in 1907, was built. Under double “flag” - L & K and Å koda drove the Type 110, after the merger of the company Laurin and Klement with the engineering company Skoda Pilsen, from 1925 to 1929 in a total of over 1000 first copies produced. The most popular vehicles in subsequent years include the Å koda Popular (1934 to 1946), the head instead of a framework now a central tube chassis had, including the Superb (1934 to 1949, photo). He received in 1935 a prize as “elegantester car.”
In the fifties, Skoda built the first 1200 model with all-metal body. The Skoda 1000 MB (1964-1996, photo) finally had a self-body, and also made by its innovative aluminium engine in the rear of the car was built, the centre of attention. 443,141 vehicles this series were produced in total. In the years 1959 to 1971, the Skoda Octavia built from 1959 to 1964 the Skoda Felicia, the well-known predecessor their subsequent namesake, in their time at the customers were very popular, as now their successors.
Among the historically best-selling models include the Skoda 105 (photo) to 120 (including versions of the Rapid, Guard and 130), during the years 1976 to 1990 in a total number of 2,008,740 vehicles was produced and the Skoda Favorit (1987 to 1995 ), For a total of 1,077,136 customers decided. The model favorite again had a front engine and for the first time, front-wheel drive. The Skoda Favorit was also the last model before the start of the Volkswagen Group (1991) was developed. This was followed by Felicia with the 1,420,441 vehicles produced (1994 to 2001) and the current models Fabia, Octavia and Superb, the total for more than three million vehicles produced. The entire Skoda car history can be found here.
In many details revised runs the flagship Skoda Superb in the model year 2007. Remarkable are the distinctive new grille and the redesigned tail lights as well as in the exterior mirrors integrated blinkers. The interior captivates the Superb now by new high-quality decorations and seat covers. This and his proven properties, such as extensive standard equipment, a high degree of comfort and the space above, convinced also reiterated the 150 fleet managers, to assist it in the context of the election to the Company Car of the Year 2006 at the import ranking in second place in its class einstuften.
All equipment lines were even more the customer wishes. Base is now the equipment line Classic. The Superb Comfort particularly Preisorientierte is also equipped with attractive packages (style, Alcantara, vision, Sun and Dynamic) upgraded.
The equipment line Elegance and the top version Laurin & Klement, now are available, can hardly be desired. Again, in addition various equipment packages available. Highlight this is the new entertainment system in the fund: a DVD player with fold-out screen.
Away ausgetretener paths sometimes it’s her high - the new Skoda Octavia Scout, its world premiere at this Motor Show in late September in Paris, is prepared. Its ground clearance is 40 millimeters higher than the Octavia Combi and 16 millimeters higher than the Octavia Combi 4×4. This increases the off-road ability of the vehicle significantly, bad and ausgefahrene way he copes with ease. The allradgetriebene, reliable Combi cope with a trunk volume of up to 1620 litres even demanding transport tasks and is ideal for the hard daily use or as a partner for leisure and work. With the Scout shows his Skoda 4×4 competence. It acts strong and dynamic and marks another step in the still-young life cycle of the Octavia.
What with the new Skoda Roomster Scout since the wheels, you can definitely not call off-road vehicles, himself an SUV, this version of the Roomsters. The best match probably would-terrain vehicles or cars with large, eye-catching and unlackierten bumpers. What something is being built? I do not know, honestly I like a normal Roomster a lot better. (more…)
Unspektakulär but stylish as ever presented the new Skoda Fabia at the Geneva Motor Show early next year. The design is closely related to that of the Skoda Roomster based and marked probably the way the Skoda in design in future proceedings. The fundamental values Skodas changes but probably not: practical, safe and economical, the new Fabia and that he is too.
Practically his trunk volume, which normally 300 and Umklappen the back seat, even entire 1,163 litres. Of course, the surcharge available head airbags for the front and the rear row of seats. (more…)
Spiegel Online berichet on the new Skoda Octavia Scout - with surprising results. It is the Skoda Octavia Scout is apparently not a “Blender”, but an off-Combi with surprisingly good health grounds. Four-wheel drive and 18 centimeters ground clearance speak a clear language. (more…)
What Volkswagen with the Polo BlueMotion vorgemacht, which makes Skoda Fabia now with the Green Line. And that is certainly not inadvertently, which is also Fabia Green Line in a small diesel engine with little apparent aerodynamic changes for a CO2 emissions to below 110 grams per kilometre. (more…)
Skoda is at the IAA in Frankfurt the new Fabia Combi. This looks in comparison to the already available Fabia, although not spectacular or innovative piece, but captivates skoda-typically by its practicality. Whole 480 litres fit into the new, larger trunk of the really small combos. Taking the back seat to bank, is expanding the capacity even to 1,460 litres. Even with the engines, there are no surprises. The smallest version comes with 70, the largest with 105 horsepower that. (more…)
What Volkswagen with the Polo BlueMotion has vorgemacht, the Czech subsidiary from the spring of 2008 with the Skoda Fabia Green Line. Thus, the diesel, both in the Fabia sedan as well as in the combined version will be some small modifications to only 4.1 litres of fuel to consume 100 km. With 80 hp, the performance despite some translation and new engine management sufficient, if not sporty.
In CO2 emissions per kilometre to get converted to a value of 110 grams This is achieved by the assembly of light running tires, improved aerodynamics, together with a lowering of a centimetre and the use of a slight repair instead of a whole Reserverads. How much the Green Line variant compared to a normal diesel will cost, but it is still unclear. (more…)
Skoda exhibits at the Essen Motor Show the new study by the series very Fabia Scout. As a combined version, the same amount of rustic therefore, of course with a lot of plastic and little sense. As the big brother Octavia Scout is also the small Fabia with plastic Beplankungen around the body and a slightly increased ground clearance. There are wannabe rear guard for the front and the rear. (more…)
