• Škoda satisfied with sales ahead of relaunch
    • 01/08/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Škoda saw sales fall by 30% in the first half of 2022 compared to the same period last year, with 360,600 vehicles delivered worldwide. The operating profit of €676m is 30.6% below the previous year, while the return on sales remains strong at 6.6%. Škoda board member for finance and IT Christian Schenk, [...]
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  • Bowden assumes new role
    • 24/09/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Matthew Bowden will take over as director of Škoda UK from February next year. He will replace Rod McLeod, who becomes director of Volkswagen UK. Bowden returns to Volkswagen Group UK after three years as vice president, sales at FAW-VW in Changchun, China. He said: “I’m excited to be joining Škoda at [...]
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  • Škoda names new head of sales
    • 18/05/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Škoda UK has appointed Kevin Rendell as its new head of sales operations. He joins the brand following five years as head of aftersales at Volkswagen UK. He will replace John French, who leaves the brand to take up the role of head of product planning for SEAT and Cupra UK. Škoda UK brand director Rod McLeod [...]
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  • VW boss says firm will recover
    • 16/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The newly appointed Volkswagen boss, Matthias Mueller, has said the company will recover from the diesel emissions scandal in two to three years. In a speech to managers he said the company needed to become leaner and take decisions more rapidly. The comments come as VW said it would recall 8.5 million cars in [...]
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  • 400,000 VW cars need injectors
    • 13/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Around 400,000 Volkswagen cars in the UK will need fuel injectors altered as well as a software fix, according to the UK boss. Paul Willis, UK managing director, said that cars fitted with the 1.6Litre diesel engine would need the injectors modified. Those with the larger 2Litre engine would only need a software [...]
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  • ECP ask experts about VW scandal
    • 12/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Euro Car Parts has asked experts in emissions-related repairs what they make of the VW ‘defeat device’ scandal affecting Audi, Seat, Skoda, VW and VW Commercial vehicles. Tony Wilson, managing director of Klarius said, ‘The Volkswagen emissions scandal began when regulators in America discovered software [...]
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  • VW values ‘marginally affected’ by emissions
    • 30/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Trade values of Volkswagen used cars have so far only been marginally affected by the news of last week's emissions scandal, according to figures from Glass's. These are the key findings from data released today covering more than 78,000 observations: Trade values of all Volkswagen used cars in the Glass's [...]
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  • Seat involved in diesel scandal
    • 30/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Seat is the latest VW brand to reveal it is involved in the diesel duping scandal that has rocked the automotive world. Seat sit under the Volkswagen umbrella along with Audi, Skoda and Seat and all have admitted to installing software that allows diesel vehicles to give false emissions readings during [...]
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  • VW saga continues
    • 29/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Following yesterday’s revelation that bosch warned Volkswagen back in 2007 about using ‘diesel duping’ software, German prosecutors have launched a criminal probe into former chief executive Martin Winterkorn, as two other car manufacturers names are added to the controversy. Audi and Skoda, who both fall [...]
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  • Skoda named ‘most dependable’
    • 19/08/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Skoda has been named as the UK’s most dependable brand in a new JD Power study.  The inaugural 2015 UK Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) asked owners to report problems with their new cars – from serious breakdowns to troublesome in-car entertainment issues. Once analysed, the results gave Skoda a clear [...]
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