DriveInside.com | Wednesday February 17, 2010
Czech car company, Skoda, opened a new showroom in Jaipur this week, taking its total number of authorized dealerships in the country to 65. The new dealership, Saga Automotive India Pvt Ltd, can service up to 35 cars everyday, and will cater to Skoda’s growing number of customers in Rajasthan. It covers an area of 4,500 square feet, and has been Read More...
DriveInside.com | Sunday January 24, 2010
Czech company, Skoda Auto, a subsidiary of Volkswagen (VW), has decided not to re-position its range of cars in India to avoid competition with VW. Skoda has been present in India for a number of years, and is seen as a maker of high-end cars in the country. Its parent company, Volkswagen, on the other hand, is a more recent entrant in the Indian Read More...
DriveInside.com | Wednesday January 20, 2010
SkodaAuto India recently won eight awards for its cars Skoda Laura and Skoda Superb at 6 different award ceremonies in the country. The Skoda Laura won the ‘Best Variant of the Year’ award at both AutoBild India’s Golden Steering Wheel Awards 2010 and Bloomberg UTV-Autocar Awards 2010. It also won the ‘Midsize Car of the Year’ at the Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday January 5, 2010
Skoda Auto unveiled its much talked-about compact SUV, the Skoda Yeti, at the 2010 Auto Expo in Delhi this week. The Yeti will be Skoda’s fifth model to be launched in India, and has the potential of ‘having a cult following’, according to Skoda India Board Member, Mr Thomas Kuehl. The vehicle is attractively styled, with a ribbed grille, sturdy Read More...
DriveInside.com | Wednesday December 2, 2009
Passenger car sales in India rose significantly in November 2009, on the back of a low-base effect and festival discounts. Car sales had plummeted by 19.3 per cent in November 2008, compared to sales in the same month in 2007.
Maruti Suzuki posted a 61.6 per cent growth in domestic sales, up from 47,103 units in November 2008, to 76,106 units Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday November 3, 2009
Festival discounts and new car launches continued to provide an upward thrust to auto sales in October 2009. Market leader Maruti Suzuki saw a 21 per cent increase in domestic sales, and a whopping 158.5 per cent increase in exports. The company sold a total of 71,551 units in India in October 2009, compared to 59,127 units in October 2008. Read More...
DriveInside.com | Friday October 2, 2009
Auto sales in India continued to rise in September 2009, on the back of low interest rates on auto loans, the revival of the economy and the beginning of the festival season. Several auto companies in the country are hoping to maintain the upward surge in the coming months. Maruti Suzuki, the biggest passenger car company in India, sold a total of Read More...
DriveInside.com | Thursday September 24, 2009
Czech car company Skoda, a subsidiary of the Volkswagen (VW) group, will be realigning its products in India to reduce competition with similarly priced VW cars. The Skoda Superb and the Skoda Laura are already available at relatively lower prices than before. Their starting prices are now Rs 18.90 lakh and Rs 12.74 lakh (ex-showroom Mumbai) Read More...
DriveInside.com | Monday June 1, 2009
Skoda Auto India Managing Director (Commercial Affairs), Mr. Karsten Bogun, is retiring to take over as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Volkswagen Braunschweig plant in Germany. Sanjay Mundade has been made a member of Skoda India’s Board of Directors as Director (Commercial Affairs), while Jean-Marie Lagey is continuing as the company’s Read More...
DriveInside.com | Sunday May 24, 2009
Fiat India Automobiles Limited (FIAL) is planning to launch the Grande Punto in the second half of 2009. The new car will be Fiat’s second hatchback in the country, after the Palio. It is based on the Fiat Linea’s platform and will have 75 per cent local content. According to industry analysts, the Grande Punto has been a big hit in European Read More...
DriveInside.com | Thursday May 21, 2009
The Skoda Yeti, a small SUV expected to hit the Indian market in early 2010, has started rolling out of Skoda’s manufacturing plant in Kvasiny, Czech Republic. In India, the car will be offered with both a front wheel and an all wheel drive and will have both petrol and diesel engine options. It will be priced between Rs.10 and 11 lakh. The Yeti Read More...
DriveInside.com | Wednesday May 20, 2009
Car company Skoda India has announced the launch of the latest version of the Skoda Laura. The New Laura has as many as three different engine options - 1.8 TSI Ambiente Manual Transmission, 1.9 TDI PD Ambiente & Elegance in Manual & Automatic Transmission, and 2.0 TDI PD L&K in Automatic Transmission, and comes with six variants. The price of the Read More...
DriveInside.com | Thursday April 9, 2009
Skoda India has decided to increase the level of local content in its premium hatchback, the Skoda Fabia, from 5 per cent to 50 per cent within the next two years. According to Thomas Kuehl, a Board Member at Skoda India, the lowered cost of production of the Fabia will be followed by an increase in the number of additional features in the car. Read More...
DriveInside.com | Wednesday April 8, 2009
Less than a month after the launch of the Skoda Superb, Czech car company Skoda Auto has launched two new variants of the car - 2.0 TDi PD (Diesel) & 3.6 V6 4x4 (Petrol). The new diesel version is priced at Rs. 22,04,943 (ex-showroom Delhi) and comes with automatic 6-speed transmission with manual Tiptronic gear changing. Its 2.0 litre engine uses Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday March 31, 2009
Czech car company Skoda Auto will soon be launching a diesel version of its premium sedan, the Skoda Superb. The car currently comes with a 1.8 litre TSI petrol engine which gives a mileage of 12-15 kmpl. Skoda plans to introduce both a 2-litre TDI diesel engine in the Superb as well as a more powerful 3.2 litre V6, 260 HP petrol engine. Other Read More...
DriveInside.com | Monday March 30, 2009
Carmaker Volkswagen AG will launch the Polo in India next year, in both sedan and hatchback versions. While the hatchback will roll out in the first quarter of 2010, the sedan will be out in the second half. The car will be developed at VW’s Pune facility. A VW spokesperson also told the media that the company plans to launch the Beetle in India Read More...
DriveInside.com | Thursday March 26, 2009
Czech car company Skoda Auto is planning to launch its small car in 2011, almost one year ahead of schedule. The Volkswagen group, which heads Skoda, has decided to launch two small cars – one from the VW stable and another from Skoda, within the next 24 to 30 months. While Skoda’s small car is expected to be priced under Rs.4 lakh and will be Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday March 10, 2009
Skoda India launched a new variant of its premium sedan, the Skoda Superb, this week. The new Superb comes at a lowered price of Rs.18.8 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi) and will henceforth be available in only one variant. The car’s earlier variants were priced between Rs.20.1 lakh and Rs.22.7 lakh. Thomas Kuehl, Skoda India’s board member and in charge Read More...
DriveInside.com | Friday February 20, 2009
Skoda India will be launching a small sized SUV, the Yeti, in the first half of 2010. The new car will be suitable for both city driving and long-distance traveling. Skoda is planning to fit the Yeti in the segment between the Fabia and the Octavia and hopes to attract those who always wanted an SUV-styled vehicle but could either not afford one Read More...
DriveInside.com | Monday February 9, 2009
Czech carmaker Skoda Auto is planning to launch three variants of its premium hatchback, the Skoda Fabia, this year. These include a sports model called the Fabia Sportline, the Fabia Combi and the Roomster. The Fabia Sportline will come equipped with alloy wheels and refurbished interiors and will be powered by an 1800 cc engine.
Skoda sold Read More...
DriveInside.com | Thursday January 1, 2009
At a time when almost all car companies in the country are seeing a decline in sales, Skoda India has reported an overall sales jump of 28.5 per cent in the year 2008. The company’s total sales stood at 16,188 units in 2008, as against 12,596 in 2007. This is largely due to the successful launch of the super hatch Skoda Fabia in January 2008. Read More...
DriveInside.com | Saturday October 4, 2008
The liquidity crunch and the September Shraadh season have hit sales across segments. Market leader Maruti Suzuki posted a marginal 2.53 per cent increase in sales to 64,682 units, compared with 63,086 in September last year.
India’s largest car exportor Hyundai Motor India grew by 23.89 per cent totaling to 22,311 units this September as Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday September 2, 2008
The slump in car sales mainly came from rising inflation and interest rates coupled with high fuel prices which continued to dissuade customers from any fresh purchases.
India’s biggest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India reported a 9.2% decline in sales to 59,908 units in August from 65,968 units in the same month last year. The domestic sales dipped Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday September 2, 2008
Czech car maker, Skoda Auto India has sold 1,103 vehicles in August 2008 registering 22.6 per cent growth as compared to 900 units sold in the same month last year.
Out of the total sales, the super hatch Skoda Fabia sold 564 units.
Skoda sells hatchback Fabia, sedan Octavia, Laura and Superb in India. Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday August 26, 2008
Second time in a row, Skoda Auto India topped the customer satisfaction survey in JD Power Asia Pacific 2008 India Sales Satisfaction Index (SSI) study.
The study, in its 9th year, surveyed 5,416 new passenger car owners in 20 Indian cities having ownership tenure of two to six months. Forty-one different passenger car brands were assessed in the Read More...