Škoda Produces 1,500,000th Octavia II

Škoda has built the 1,500,000th second generation Octavia, which has been manufactured since 2004. The above figure does not include the production numbers of the structurally identical vehicle “MingRui”, which is sold in China.

The Octavia II is being produced/assembled in plants at Mladá Boleslav and Vrchlabí (Czech Republic), Kaluga (Russia), as well as Aurangabad (India), Usť-Kamenogorsk (Kazakhstan) and Solomonovo (Ukraine). Since the year 2007, the vehicle has been manufactured by Shanghai Volkswagen in China.

The vehicle is available as a sedan as well as a station wagon; also, a vehicle with all-wheel drive and the sports version “RS” is being offered. With the Octavia Green E-Line, the Czech automobile manufacturer developed the first purely electrically powered vehicle of the brand. In a matter of weeks, a test fleet of eleven vehicles will commence trial operations in the Czech Republic in order for the company to collect practical experience with its electric drive.