Thread: Skoda Rapid

Skoda bridges the gap between Fabia and Octavia with new hatchSkoda is going places. So much so that it might need to revise its production targets upwards, even from a stated goal of making 1. 8 million cars per year by 2018. Globally, Skoda has hit a chord with the buying public. Its products mean the same thing everywhere: theyre good value, theyre more spacious than youd expect and theyre adorned simply inside. It is an image that has resonated in a crisis-ridden world. The Rapid is its latest model in a roll-out of new product that will include a new Octavia next year and a large SUV after that. But its the Rapid that brings some balance to the line-up, sitting as it does in the gap between the Fabia, which well now think of as a conventional supermini, and the Octavia, which has hitherto been small for a Ford Mondeo-segment car, or large for a Focus-sized one. The Rapid – a straightforward, spacious, good value C-segment competitor – will occupy the small family ground and push the Octavia up into fleet territory. To that end, its average-sized, of average weight and wears the kind of keen price sticker youd expect to find on a car that is aimed mainly at private buyers.