Currently reading: Skoda sales down 12.9%, but electric Enyaq volumes strong
Czech brand delivered 878,200 vehicles worldwide in 2021

Skoda CEO Thomas Schäfer has described 2021 as “one of the most challenging years in [the car maker’s] history”, reporting a global sales decrease of 12.9% to 878,200 units.

It means the Czech firm failed to sell more than one million cars for the first time in eight years. 

Amid the semiconductor crisis and Covid pandemic that have affected the entire industry, almost every market was down for Skoda with one outlier: India, where sales increased 108.9% compared with 2020 thanks to the introduction of the Kushaq mid-sized SUV.

Chinese sales were hit hardest with deliveries down 58.8%,

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