Skoda Citigo First Drive

THE SKODA Citigo can lay claim to a number of firsts. It’s the first sub-supermini Skoda for a start, it’s the first Skoda to wear the company’s new badge, the first to feature the new Skoda family styling and it’s even the first Skoda to have head-thorax-side airbags.

Once the ‘oooh’s and ‘ahhh’s have died down, have a look at the groundbreaking machine in question. Admittedly it doesn’t necessarily look like much, but there’s a lot going on in this little package that makes for an awfully convincing modern car.

It might be the smallest Skoda since the company stopped making motorbikes in the early 1900s, but it’s arguably the most cleverly packaged. It’s often said in the industry that the best engineers prefer working on the smallest cars, because they have chance to come up with plenty of ingenious solutions.
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New Skoda Yeti commercial

Skoda Rapid Television Commercial

Skoda Citigo RS ?

The Skoda Citigo RS version will be distinguished by a re-styled front bumper, new wheel arches, a small rear diffuser, and double exhaust pipes. The interior will get two-tone leather and sport bucket seats. Read the rest of this entry »

New Skoda Octavia to grow bigger 2013

Next Octavia to have Mondeo space for Focus money
Based on next Golf but with longer chassis
A new smaller car is also planned

The next Skoda Octavia will be bigger than the current car, allowing Skoda to offer a smaller, big-value model below it.

The next Octavia will sit on the new ‘modular’ chassis that’s been developed across the Volkswagen Group. Called MQB, it made its debut at the recent Geneva motor show, underpinning the latest Audi A3.
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Skoda Citigo 2013

Skoda has just given birth to a seventh ‘family’ member, the Citigo. Declan O’Byrne was in Lisbon to witness the happy event

Lisbon. 1 March , 2012. The Skoda family of the Czech Republic announces the birth of its seventh member, the Citigo (which it hopes will grow up to become as successful as its siblings who, in recent years, have established the marque as a major player in the global automotive marketplace.)

Actually, although the international unveiling of the car took place in the chilly and rainswept Portuguese capital last week, the Citigo is already on sale in its homeplace, the Czech Republic, and will be rolled out at the Geneva Motor Show this week and across the world in the coming months.
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