While it will almost certainly fall short of that in 2017 – to the end of November, its 73,325 registrations were down 1.9% on the same period a year earlier – it is in the context of an overall market down more than 5%. Škoda’s share of that market increased to 3.07% in the period (up from 2.97% a year earlier), while registrations at rivals Ford and Vauxhall fell 8.7% and 22.3% respectively.
However, in Europe the brand is proving even more successful, up 6.7% to 590,211 by the end of October. Could that success suck supply from UK dealers in 2018?
Škoda UK brand director Duncan Movassaghi said: “There’s an overall global demand for Škodas and I’m thinking of particularly Europe, because that’s really where there’s a market.”
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Irishboy4 - 21/02/2018 09:02
All the hyperbole written above makes no mention of the Dieselgate scandal that is still hanging over VW group. They have either paid our or set asdie $44 billion for approx. 430,000 cars in the USA, in the UK 1.1 million were affected and nothing has been paid in compensation. Additionally the CEO of VW USA was jailed for seven years, here in the UK no one from VW has been arrested as yet.