Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Skoda Releases all new Rapid to Bridge the Gap b/w Fabia and Octavia

The all new Skoda Rapid 2013 model
Skoda has hit a chord with the buying public. Its products mean the same thing everywhere: they’re good value; they’re more spacious than you’d expect and they’re adorned simply inside. It is an image that has resonated in a crisis-ridden world.
Say Skoda is going places and you wouldn’t be wrong. The automaker seeks to revise its production targets upwards, even from a stated goal of making 1.8 million cars per year by 2018.
The Rapid is its latest model in a roll-out of new product that will include a new Octavia and a large SUV after that.
But it’s the Rapid that brings some balance to the line-up, sitting as it does in the gap between the Fabia, which we’ll now think of as a conventional supermini.
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, it’s average-sized, of average weight and wears the kind of keen price sticker you’d expect to find on a car that is aimed mainly at private buyers.
The Skoda Rapid sits between the Fabia and Octavia in the company’s range. However, it’s much closer in size to the larger of those two cars; in fact, it’s some 30cm longer than the Volkswagen Golf, something that results in excellent internal space.
What may well also surprise you is that, although the Rapid looks more like a saloon in pictures, it is actually a hatchback, with the emphasis on space as much as it is on low prices.
As you would expect from Skoda’s high-value brand image, prices are extremely competitive.
Skoda World, marketers and distributors of Skoda range of vehicles have taken delivery of the new Rapid and could be in the showrooms countrywide by month end, Cars and Trucks Review can reveal.

 

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