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Skoda Auto aims to double sales in 2006
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RED RIDING HOOD: Mr Lukas Folc, MD, Skoda Auto India (right) with models and other officials posing with the Skoda LauraRS in the Capital on Wednesday. — Ramesh Sharma
New Delhi
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Jan. 11
CZECH carmaker Skoda Auto is targeting to sell 13,500 cars in India this year, 51 per cent more than the 8,953 cars it sold in 2005, a senior official of its Indian unit said on Wednesday.
Mr Lukas Folc, Managing Director, SkodaAuto India Pvt. Ltd, said the company will introduce six new cars this year to achieve the sales target.
``We sold nearly 9,000 cars in 2005, which is nearly 95 per cent more over 2004,'' Mr Folc said at a conference.
The new models would include Fabia, and a new range of Octavia, among others.
Skoda now sells the Octavia model and the luxury sedan Superb in the local market. In December, the company had introduced another sedan, the Laura.
``We have also begun exports of Skoda cars to Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka,'' Mr Folc said. He said the company would add 10 dealerships in India this year to its current 41.
Skoda started operations in India in November 2001 and has sold 25,000 cars in the local market. It makes all its models at its unit in Aurangabad.
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