Skoda CEO details ambitious new product plans for the brand including a more economical electric automobile to follow the Enyaq.
Skoda will reveal its new generation of Fabia supermini in May, the company’s boss has announced – and the Czech brand is also working on an estate version of the model.
New 2022 Skoda Fabia on sale now priced from £14,905
The current Fabia is the last of the VW group superminis to move across onto the more modern MQB A0 platform – as used on everything from the current Polo to the SEAT Arona and Audi A1. Skoda has previously teased camouflaged versions of the automobile – and allowed journalists to try prototypes a few weeks ago.
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Speaking at Skoda’s annual press conference, the company’s CEO Thomas Schafer said that the new Fabia was one of the brand’s most exciting launches of 2021. “The world premiere of the Fabia will be coming up in May,” he said, “and I’m already looking forward to it.”
Schafer also announced that the current Fabia estate – known as the Combi in continental Europe – will get a successor, bucking an industry trend away from small wagons. It will go on sale in 2023 and will be built in Skoda’s Kvasiny plant, as part of a shake-up that also includes a new generation of the Superb.
Schafer said that work has already started on a successor to Skoda’s flagship hatchback, and that it is being developed alongside the next-generation VW Passat. Skoda plans to move production of the outstanding when the new version arrives in 2023, building it in Bratislava to free up space in the Kvasiny facility.