The Skoda Fabia World Rally Car (WRC) driven by Eugene Donnelly has beaten off stiff competition from Ford and Subaru to win the Donegal Rally. Donnelly was on the pace from the start and took the lead during the second stage, maintaining his position througho...

“da is of course a brand of the Volkswagen Group, and the GreenLine Fabia shares an engine with the VW Polo BlueMotion we tested earlier this year.”

Prague, June 30 (CTK) - Representatives of the Czech police and the Skoda Auto car manufacturer Monday signed a contract for the delivering of 2800 new cars for the police worth 1.32 billion crowns, deputy police president Tomas Kuzel told journalists.

Skoda is about to go head-to-head with parent company VW. The Czech brand will expand its range to include a pair of practical new models. First up is the Mini-Van, which arrives in 2010.

Skoda tells us it stands to benefit more than most from new VRT regulations due to come into force soon. Two thirds of the 160 model variants in the Irish range will come down in price, some by significant amounts.

MLADA BOLESLAV - June 24, 2008: koda Auto delivered nearly as many vehicles over the first five months of 2008 as it had over the first six months of 2007. Altogether 301,521 customers have bought a koda since the beginning of this year, 18.

“the Skoda Fabia II (sedan) WEITEC now offers Ultra GT sport suspension. With it the Skoda can be lowerd by 35 mm at front and rear axle.”

The company said that its sales in Western Europe have grown by 1.5% for the first five months of 2008 as compared with the same period of 2007, reaching 144,919 vehicles in total. Sales in Russia increased 79.

Turner’s of Erlestoke, the Skoda retailer in Devizes, are sponsoring an employee’s adventure of a lifetime as he prepares to take part in the ‘Mount Everest’ of power boat races.

Skoda Auto plans to sell 2,000 of the new Superb model on the domestic market in 2008 and in following years would like to double that figure. Starting on 20 June 2008, Czech customers will be able to choose between three petrol engine capacities and.

John Mulholland has competed in 20 rallies in the supermini, which was purpose-built from scratch by his rally team, and it will be the only diesel car to participate in the competition.

Volkswagen is seeking to increase daily production of the second generation Skoda Octavia at its plant in Bratislava, Slovakia. The company wants to lift output from the present 120 per day to as many as 200 by the end of 2008 and also start making t.

Double World Rally champion Carlos Sainz tested the new Skoda Fabia Super 2000 car recently in Austria. The Spaniard, who won the Central European Rally with a Race Touareg this year in April, was joined by regular testers Jan Kopecky and Raimund Baumschlager,...

AUDI'S Allroad and Volvo's XC70 have given estate cars a new lease of life with the addition of four-wheel drive and rugged bodykits. But with both cars costing well over £30,000 there would seem to be a gap in the market for something a little bit more affor...

Skoda has scooped first place in the Auto Express Driver Power survey for the second year in succession. More than 32,000 independent members of the public vote in the reliability and satisfaction poll, making it a true reflection of how pleased people are wit...

John Mullholland, Skoda’s largest retailer in Northern Ireland, is putting final touches to his Skoda Fabia this week as he prepares for the International Donegal Rally. The Fabia VRS has been built from scratch by John and his rally team and is the onl...

Local Skoda agent Frank Borda Ltd has launched the estate version of the Skoda Fabia. The new Combi offers passengers better comfort and much more space in the boot than its predecessor: the boot has grown making it suitable for young families and journeys ove...

LATVIA: Riga urban transport authority SIA Rigas Satiksme has awarded a €51·7m contract to Skoda Transportation for the supply of 20 low-floor trams. The contract was formally signed on May 23, following an international tender launched in December 20...

According to comments made at the Autotec fair in Brno by Jana Volfova, the head of Skoda Auto's logistics department, the Czech OEM is seeking to reduce the number of its direct suppliers before the end of next year from the existing 1,300 to just 4.

Hyundai sold a total of 46,415 vehicles in May, up 5.8 percent from 43,885 in the same month last year. Adjusted for one additional sales day in this May compared with last, Hyundai sales are up 1.

“I see Greenline becoming a bigger part of the mix in coming years,†Skoda UK boss Robert Hazlewood told BusinessCar. “We’re getting a lot of fleet interest in the Fabia – it’s much stronger than expected and it’s gi...

It shall launch its Roomster by end of 2008 and its new sedan Superb by early 2009. By 2010, it plans to bring its sport utility vehicle Yeti to India. It currently sells 58,000 units annually and plans to sell nearly 100,000 cars by 2012.

Skoda India sells 1,802 cars in the month of May Skoda had a great month this May as the company sold as many as 1,802 cars in the Indian market. This is more than double the number of cars they had sold in the same period last year.

THE most telling joke from the bad old days of Skoda ran like this: How do you double the value of a Skoda. Answer: by filling its tank with petrol. Perhaps, with the price of fuel where it is today, that is no longer a joke.

My elegantly uniformed chauffeuse, Heike Hebsacker, met me as I arrived in Salzburg, opened the rear door of the Skoda and said: “Good afternoon, sir - your car.” A chauffeuse and a Skoda.

EuroNCAP noted that the knee-airbag in the new Superb contributed to excellent protection of the occupants' knees and thighs. The entry level Superb counts seven airbags in total, anti-whiplash front seats and a more rigid body.

Just check out the sales figures. In the 1990s, Skoda were selling just 200,000 cars a year. Last year they hit a record of 630,000 and this year they will top 700,000. In the UK they have had record sales for three years in a row, which is even more remarkabl...

According to a report carried by Thomson Financial , the Czech government is to fund Koruna 1.4bn (US$86.9m) worth of upgrades in relation to two Skoda plants so as to assist in attracting Volkswagen investment for future model programmes.