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Skoda India is planning to bring more new cars and variants into India in 2009. The company has big plans for 2010 in India as well.

As per last year on Skoda India sales, the company had a uplift on its sales growing at 29% and they cornered at 55% share of India’s premium segment. It’s small car, Fabia that won the “CNBC-TV18 Overdrive Car of the Year” award, despite selling only 7,000 units against the targeted 10,000. But Skoda is in no mood to slow down and 2009 will see more new cars from the Skoda stable hitting Indian roads.

Thomas Kuehl, Member of the Board - Sales and Marketing, Skoda Auto India, “We’ll bring a new Superb, new Laura and three variants of Fabia—Fabia Sportline, Greenline and Concept.”

Currently cars from Skoda and Audi are assembled at the Volkswagen Group’s Aurangabad plant, which has a capacity of 40000 units. But Skoda plans to move the Fabia assembly to its new Pune plant, increasing the localisation component in the car to 50% from the current 10 percent. So the Fabia’s manufacturing costs will come down. Reason enough to add more features to the car.

Thomas Kuehl said, “We will add more features like ABS now. We do not believe in reducing the costs so much.”

Skoda is looking beyond 2009. It is developing a car smaller than the Fabia, which will be priced at around Rs 5 Lakhs this should roll out by 2012. It’s also looking for a piece of the Sports Utility and Multipurpose Utility Vehicle market with its Roomster and Yeti both of which should be ready by 2010.

Skoda’s also conducting feasibility studies to set up a power terrain facility, and wants to begin exports from India.

[Source: Moneycontrol]

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