by Skoda Worldwide deliveries fell 16.7% last year as the Czech company battled numerous headwinds.
The company has delivered 731,000 cars to customers by 2022, with all global nameplates reduced – with the exception of the high-priority Enyaq electric SUV.
Like the majority of fellow OEMs, Skoda cited obstacles such as semiconductor shortages, war in Ukraine (where Skoda sources its mining wire), other supply chain problems, energy prices and rising raw materials as well as ongoing geopolitical unrest.
Skoda’s annual decline was stronger than most Volkswagen Group brands: Volkswagen Cars fell 6.8%, Volkswagen Commercial fell 8.6% and Audi fell 3.9%. However, SEAT/Cupra fell 18.1%, as the former was not the latter.
It’s not all doom and gloom for Skoda, with the brand delivering success for its first electric vehicle and growth in the huge potential Indian market where its sales are. it has more than doubled.
The company also claims to have a large backlog of orders, as you can imagine.
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Brand CEO Klaus Zellmer stated: “Never in recent history has Škoda Auto faced such great challenges as last year.
The number of deliveries in Skoda’s key regions fell almost evenly excluding India: Western Europe (377,000, down 7.8%), Central Europe (148,000, down 9.8%), China (44,600, down 37.4%) and Eastern Europe excluding Russia (31,600, down 11.9 percent).
Skoda’s largest market overall was Germany (134,800 vehicles delivered, down 1.8%), ahead of its home country Czech Republic (71,200, down 11%) and India (51,900, up 127.7%).
Škoda delivery by region in 2022
- Octavia: 141,100, -29.7%
- kamq: 96,300, -20.3%
- Kodiaq: 94,500, -4.2%
- Fabia: 92,700, -6.5%
- karoq: 87,700, -26.4%
- Great: 60,800, -8.0%
- Enyaq: 53,700, +20.0%
- Scala: 39,500, -17.9%
- Kushaq: 26,800, +110.2%
- Slavia: 20,900
- Fast: 17,300, -72.8%
2023 It will be a busy year for Skodawith the new generation of Kodiaq and Great will be revealed, as well as facelifts for both kamq and Scala.
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Australia
This result was echoed in Australia, where Skoda’s deliveries fell 29.2% to 6502, largely due to stock shortages.
However, Skoda Australia predict much healthier stock levels from the beginning of 2023, with a “full normalization” of supply from factories in Europe expected by the middle of next year.
The local branch of the Czech brand is therefore anticipating an all-time record since the brand’s debut here in 2007 – a combination of delivering existing orders and growing. its customer base.
While Skoda management won’t confirm its internal sales target in the filing, company sources tell us the target is around 12,000 units for the calendar year 2023. The brand’s best year yet. Brand so far in Australia is 2021, when 9185 sales are recorded.
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