The version more country that are in the range of the Skoda Fabia is the “ScoutLine”.
Already in the mid of the last month of September we proceeded in Engine.is Skoda were up to something. In particular, we have already put on the table the first information about the next step that will give the Czech brand in their particular expansion for the SUV segment. Its new model, the so-called Skoda Polar, is already being developed as confirmed by a senior official of Skoda.
Christian Strube, Head of the Research and Development of Skoda, has revealed through a statement to a british are already working on a new B-SUV based on the Skoda Fabia. An urban crossover that will be presented in one of the lounges of the automobile in the year 2018 and that will arrive at dealers at the beginning of 2019 as we had anticipated previously.
In its comments, Strube made it clear that Skoda can’t look the other way, and you must give a response to the growing demand for crossovers urban is living in Europe during these last years. After being analyzed and studied from the past year 2014, finally the project has received the green light and are already working on this model which will arrive at dealers before the end of the current decade.
Sketch of the Skoda Polar made by the Engine.is
In comparison with the Skoda Fabia, this new urban crossover will be longer, width and height. Will be mounted on the shortened version of the MQB platform of the Volkswagen Group. What will be your name? As we say, to date the various pieces of information and other internal sources of the brand have spoken of the possibility that this new B-SUV to be christened as Skoda Polar. However, the brand could opt for other possibilities.
And it is that, at the beginning of this same year it was learned that Skoda started the paperwork to register the following names: Aratan and Airon. Despite this we must continue to present the name Polar.
Skoda is not the only brand of the Volkswagen Group, which is working on a model for this segment. Other firms like your own Volkswagen are already developing a B-SUV based on the Volkswagen Polo and whose launch will take place sometime in 2018, while that SEAT is doing the same with the new SEAT Arona that will hit the market by the middle of next year to 2017. The offensive of the group automobile German in this segment is evident.
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