A few days ago, the carmaker confirmed that the new generation of the available small station wagon of the Fabia model will not come. According to the company, the company must focus on the development and production of electric cars. The carmaker’s new strategy most likely does not include other conventional models, including the Scala hatchback. The replacement will be a clean electric car.
Not only the Fabia Combi, but also the Scala hatchback, ie another model on the MQB A0 platform equipped with conventional internal combustion engines, will not get a successor. The model in the current generation should be sold for several more years before it finally ends. The information was first brought by the German branch website Automobile week. “We do not comment on speculation about models or life cycles,” said Škoda Auto spokesman Pavel Jína.
However, according to unofficial information from the carmaker, the end of “conventional” Scala is basically certain. He will not get a successor with an internal combustion engine, the car would not be able to be fitted with an engine other than an internal combustion engine, not even a hybrid one, due to the platform used. According to the source of Aktuálně.cz from the company’s senior management, the current generation will remain on the market “for as long as it is still possible with regard to the tightening emission limits”, but for a maximum of the next five years.
Scala filled the space in the Škoda offer between Fabia and Octavia, it was introduced in 2018, production started at the beginning of 2019. In 2020, the plant in Mladá Boleslav produced 58,054 cars, a year earlier it was 54,839 cars, ie less than six percent less. So if it really ends in 2025, it will have just recently completed its seven-year market cycle.
It is a question of what will happen to other models, for example the small SUV Kamiq uses the MQB A0 platform, as well as the Scala.
The reason for the planned end of Scala is the so-called Green Deal, ie a climate protection plan that aims to reduce emissions from new cars. The emission targets for the coming years are so strict that it will no longer be possible to offer cars with conventional internal combustion engines. After 2035, cars other than battery-powered electric cars or hydrogen cars should not be sold in Europe.
According to Automobilwoche, the Kodiaq Škoda SUV, which has been on sale since 2016 and is one of the brand’s most successful models, with a high margin, will probably be the last car with internal combustion engines on offer. The new generation should come in 2024.
Around 2025, Škoda should probably introduce a smaller electric car, which would fill the gap after the Fabia Combi and Scale. At present, it has only one electric car on offer, the SUV Enyaq. After all, the head of the car manufacturer Thomas Schäfer has previously confirmed that the company must thicken the offer of electric cars in lower car classes.
Volkswagen already has such a model – it is an electric hatchback ID.3. Cupra, a separate brand, formerly an offshoot of Satt, has already introduced its equivalent, the El Born model. Therefore, a smaller electric car should logically appear in Škoda’s offer as soon as possible, and if it is a smaller SUV, it will essentially become an electric replacement for the Kamiq, Fabia and Scala at the same time.
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