Rumoured Golf pricing bad news for Skoda?

[Inego]

I suspect that the rumoured Scout version of the Superb will for all intents be Skodas equivalent but who knows whether it's anything more than a journalists wish list that he had the graphic artist draw up..

Yes, if and when, given the various versions in spyshots over the last couple of years. But I'm thinking new car this year, so alltrack it looks like.

[K1W1]

this has nothing to do with skoda

It has everything to do with Skoda. Pricing the Golf at that level takes Skoda out of the alternate product equation based on Skodas current pricing levels. That was the whole point of the thread in the first pace. Skoda are with going to have to revisit their pricing strategy or go the added value route to stay competitive, just like Mazda and Nissan and Toyota and everybody else.

[Dutch77]

It has everything to do with Skoda. Pricing the Golf at that level takes Skoda out of the alternate product equation based on Skodas current pricing levels. That was the whole point of the thread in the first pace. Skoda are with going to have to revisit their pricing strategy or go the added value route to stay competitive, just like Mazda and Nissan and Toyota and everybody else.

Agreed, this is what I was trying to get at. Not that it would happen, but it would be like Audi shaving their prices and encroaching on VW product (although this would involve quite a bit more of a cut than what is possibly happening with VW/Skoda).

As a Skoda fan I'm happy to hear plenty of people are keen on sticking with the brand all the same.

[Jake02]

Very rarely do I see a Golf 77TSI in Sydney - although a few days in Melbourne I saw many of them - the most I see are GTIs and Rs. In terms of this thread I realise that it's largely irrelevant but has anyone read apparently how much power this new base Golf has?

63kW.

What I get from this that VW Aus really doesn't seem to give a s**t about Skoda Australia (yet again). Why bother bringing it here then?

r

[johnnie5]

What I get from this that VW Aus really doesn't seem to give a s**t about Skoda Australia (yet again). Why bother bringing it here then?

r

market share is what its all about

if they have the product available , can support it and make money out of it the they will sell it

if they arent making money out of it then they wouldnt sell it

but you do still make a valid point and maybe they will either cut the price to compete on the smaller price vehicles to get people into the skoda/vw/audi models or would they just drop the brand ?

[VAG newbie]

So first of all you have inside information as to VW's corporate strategy

"...head of ŠKODA head of sales and marketing and board member, Jurgen Stackmann said the brand is "chasing sales from Japanese and Korean brands, and is especially keen to model itself after Kia in Australia"......"

Source: More `KODAs on the way

This shows Skoda's strategy is to get sales from Toyota/Hyundai, the largest Japanese/Korean brand respectively.

"....Managing director of VGA for three years, Ms Koeckler usually avoids making public sales predictions for her company, instead famously running a competition among motoring journalists to predict VW’s annual tally, rather than making her own.....Today, however, she said she would make an exception and tip that VGA’s combined VW and Skoda sales should approach 60,000 in 2012...."

Source: Volkswagen - VW Group homes in on 60,000 sales | GoAuto

This implies in Ms Koeckler's mind, it's the combined figure that she cares. Because she talks about combined figure.

And from fellow member's comment from the other thread Skoda Auto Sales in Australia via vfacts
"...Its already been mentioned numerous times - VW Aus will not allow, no matter how good, Skoda to sell well here in Aus. VWaG are not looking for large sales volume for Skoda. They already sell millions worldwide. VWaG is just being nice to the Australian market by giving us the choice to buy a Skoda, under the mercy of VW Australia. Who knows, one day VW Austraia will decide they no longer want the burden of selling Skoda, and shut shop...." dArK5HaD0w, 7/1/2013

"...i got speaking to a general manager of a big dealership at a bbq last week and he suggested that whilst VW sales are strong they won't be agressive with Skoda sales/pricing. Skoda are basically their launching pad (back up) should VW sales cool off..." Zach, 7/1/2013

So do these members have insider information as well? Why don't you ask them to put up or shut up?

Then you "believe" that you know what they intended to do

I already said, it was MHO. So I am not allowed to express my opinion? You asked a question, yet you don't allow your fellow member to share their view? If you don't want to hear anything that you don't want to hear, then don't open a thread.

It seems to me that you are the only person who has this information and almost every post you make in the Skoda section of the forum is negative towards Skoda and purports to have inside information about VW so as I have asked you before please put up or shut up. Your posts are contradictory and do not make you look at all good. All they do is indicate that you have a personal bias against Skoda that you attempt to present as fact.

I have already posted a couple of the fellow member's view point, so I am not the only one that holds the view. I could have find more, but I haven't got the time. In fact, my view was based on many of the fellow member's opinions here.

K1W1, I don't know what have I done to upset or offend you. From day 1, almost every post that you reply me is against me. If I have said anything to offend you, I apologize. I love Skoda, and I don't know how you have come to the conclusion that I am very negative towards Skoda. If simply based on the criticisms that I have towards Skoda's marketing campaign or pricing, how can you jump into conclusion that I hate Skoda? There are many other members that have put more negative comments about how little advertising, the marketing campaign that Skoda should have done better. Why don't you attack them? Even based on your own word, "...I for one would not be recommending a Skoda to anybody I cared about in the short term......" I can say you are the one that is negative to Skoda, not me. In fact, you are the only one here attacks me like that. No other member here said the same thing or have the impression that I am negative toward Skoda.

Now I have quoted a few facts that you wanted. I know it is hardly a hard evidence, and I certainly do not have any inside information of what VWa is doing to Skoda. But how many of us do? This is the whole purpose of the forum. We discuss, we share our opinion. I got a lot of help from this forum here, so I hope we can continue to discuss in a civilized fashion, rather than on any personal attacks.