Fabia to be best-selling Skoda car in China market

Shanghai, October 6 (Gasgoo.com) Chinese dealers of Skoda brand cars are receiving training in Fabia sales, as Shanghai VW is rehearsing the launch of the new model, which will go on sale in China next month, said xinhuanet.com today. The Fabia is expected to be the best-seller of Skoda cars in the Chinese market. 

A Skoda brand sales executive of Shanghai VW said that the joint venture is very optimistic about the Fabia sales in the Chinese market, though he has not specified the Chinese consumer group and market orientation of this new model of Skoda Auto. However, some dealers revealed that Fabia will sell for about 100,000 yuan ($14,650) in China.

By presenting its European models at the 2008 Beijing auto show back in April, Skoda Auto, the Czech unit of Volkswagen, shows its technological potential (Octavia RS and Scout) and environmental orientation (Fabia GreenLine) to the Chinese auto industry. Following its launch of the Fabia in November this year in the Chinese market, Skoda Auto is going to launch other new models in the coming years.

The Fabia model is believed to become the top-selling Skoda car in China once it's introduced next month. In the China market, the Fabia will surpass the Octavia, another Skoda model, and may compete with Shanghai VW's Polo as an A0-class model.

Since its birth in 1999, the global output of Fabia has exceeded 2 million units, and in the first half of 2008, Fabia sales neared 137,000 units, up 14.5% form one year earlier.

Skoda Auto's production and assembly plants are currently in the Czech Republic, Russia, India, China, Kazakhstan, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Ukraine.