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Skoda produces 1.5 million third-generation Octavias

Skoda’s employees at the company’s main plant in Mladá Boleslav have produced the 1.5-millionth third-generation Octavia. Since the first modern Octavia generation was launched 21 years ago, over five million customers around the world have chosen the compact model from the long-established Czech brand.

“With the Octavia, the rapid development of our company really gathered pace from 1996,” said Michael Oeljeklaus, Board Member for Production and Logistics. “It has been an important pillar of the Skoda portfolio for over two decades. With the third generation of our bestseller, we have seamlessly built on the success story of the first two editions. Much of the credit for the success of the Octavia and the Skoda brand goes to our motivated and highly skilled workforce, which now has 1.5 million reasons to be proud of its achievements,” added Oeljeklaus.

With more than five million units sold, the Skoda Octavia is the Czech car manufacturer’s best selling model. The first-generation car, which rolled off the production line from 1996 until the end of November 2010, won over more than 1.4 million buyers. The second-generation Octavia continued the success of its predecessor: between 2004 and 2013, Skoda sold a total of 2.5 million vehicles. The third generation of the Octavia, which is considered to be the cornerstone of Skoda’s model range, has been in production since November 2012; its one millionth vehicle left the production halls in Mladá Boleslav at the end of March 2016. In total, almost 1.4 million vehicles from the third generation were produced by the end of 2016. Production of the current upgraded Octavia commenced at the beginning of February 2017. Skoda makes this model at its main plant in the Czech Republic as well as in China, India, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

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