Skoda Octavia China sales hit 60,000 units one year after launch

Shanghai, June 10 (Gasgoo.com) Skoda Auto has sold nearly 60,000 units of Octavia in China since it hits the Chinese market on June 6 last year, Beijing Morning Post reported today.

Shanghai Volkswagen-Skoda said that it aims to sell 68,000 Skoda brand vehicles in 2008. In the second half of 2007, the joint venture automaker fulfilled its sales target by selling 31,802 Octavia cars and in the first quarter of this year, it sold more than 17,000 units.

Also, Skoda's Fabia model is expected to be introduced to China at the end of the year and, according to Volkswagen Vice President Detlef Witting, Fabia will surpass the Octavia model in China and then surpass the same model's sales in Russia once its manufacturing begins in China.

Skoda and its parent Volkswagen will produce a smaller car than the Fabia "but certainly not sooner than in the next two or three years," said quoted Wittig.