Good news for Skoda as Volkswagen’s Czech unit is on course to reach its 2008 sales target of 700,000 vehciles worldwide by the end of 2008. “After three months, we are on target and should reach this figure at the end of the year,” said Skoda spokesman Jaroslav Cerny, without giving any more details though.

Skoda, which has production sites in the Czech Republic, China, Russia, India and Ukraine managed to sell 630,032 cars in 2007 contributing to the VW Group’s full-year profit by approximately 13 percent.

Via: Yahoo

Over the past year, Škoda Auto supplied a total of 449,758 customers worldwide with Fabia, Octavia, and Superb model range cars (2002: 445,525). In spite of a globally tough boom and stronger competitive pressures on particular markets, the auto maker has increased its sales by 1.0%. In 2003, the Fabia became the best-selling Škoda model range with 260,988 units sold (2002: 264,641) almost reaching the previous year’s level. During the same year, the Octavia achieved record-breaking sales with 165,635 units (2002: 164,017, which means +1.0%). The Škoda Superb recorded the highest sales increase (+37.2%) with 23,135 cars sold on the European market (2002: 16,867).

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