Skoda's Big Announcement at the Sydney Motor Show

[K1W1]

I think that would be a big backward step to start with it would effectively devalue all FL Octavias because it would cause confusion in the market.
The Fabia the Yeti and maybe the electric car are my picks.

[CanberravRS]

I don't think an electrical car with a 140k range will ever sell in Aus in any great numbers..

450-600k range and your going to have something special on your hands.

I think K1W1 is on the money.. Fabia RS and Yeti

[K1W1]

I don't think an electrical car with a 140k range will ever sell in Aus in any great numbers..

If it was on display at the show it would be there as a demonstration of Skodas technical ability and forward thinking and green credentials rather that as a car to purchase. It would be just like the show special prototypes that many manufacturers trot out to create interest in their brand.
If you were a bored motoring journalist would you rather write a piece about yet another variant on the Tiquan/Q5 or a brand new, practical, amost production ready fully electric car with a solar panel on the roof for recharging and a boot bigger than any electric car currently in production?

BTW: Just to put the 140km in perspective. The average mileage per vehicle in Australia is 15,000km per year and that translates to 40km per day. One hundred and forty km is 3 days running for the average car and if it charges while it's sitting in the sun in the car park outside school or at the supermarket or the coffee shop then for a lot of people they may not actually have to charge it on mains power all that often so it may well be a very practical second vehicle for many families. Obviously it won't be suited for the Christmas trip from Melbourne to Byron Bay but that's what the main car is for anyway. All of a sudden people might want to start parking on the roof top level of car parks.