ŠKODA continues to outperform the market in 2019, the European brand recording a 21 per cent increase year to date over 2018.
ŠKODA sold 903 cars and SUVs to February 28 compared to 746 last year. Last month the brand sold 495 vehicles over 416 in February 2018.
ŠKODA Australia Director Michael Irmer said that this total was achieved against both the prevailing market decline and extremely low stock of the brand's usually best-selling Octavia.
"Since October supply of the Octavia has been half of the previous rate of sales," Mr Irmer said.
"Octavia outperformed forecasts up until to Q3 2018 after which there was no additional supply. That has now been rectified, so Octavia will bounce back in the next quarter.
"The KODIAQ SUV is the biggest seller for ŠKODA now and we expect this to remain the case to further grow this year with production ramping up."
Mr Irmer said the performance of the Superb - up 20% YTD in the otherwise moribund large car segment – was remarkable.
The ŠKODA buying experience has been made still easier with the implementation of the Stock Locator on the brand's homepage (https://stock-cars.skoda-auto.com/959/en-AU/)
"This is the latest means of making the ŠKODA customer journey as simple and transparent as possible," Mr Irmer said.
Customers can choose their preferred variant from all vehicles avaiable in the country or vehicles en route to Australia aboard the carrier vessel. There are nine pictures for each vehcles displaying it from exterior and interior perspectives in addtion to a detailed description and driveaway pricing.
Customers are encouraged to purchase the preferred vehicle at their local dealer. All they require is the comm number as displayed on the site. This number can even be used to look up the expected arrival date of vehicles in transit by entering it at the Track My Order page located on the Ownership section of our website.
All new ŠKODA's come with 5 year/unlimited kilometre warranty andf the option of either three- or five year service packs.
ŠKODA |
February 2019 |
Fabia |
60 |
Rapid |
18 |
Octavia |
93 |
Superb |
84 |
Karoq |
67 |
Kodiaq |
173 |
|
495 |