LAST AUTO NEWS – SKODA CITY CAR IS COMING
Last Auto account – Skoda city-limits car is advancing New Joyster gets the blooming ablaze and will be based on Volkswagen Up!, with electric archetypal to follow.
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The aboriginal Skoda is up and running! The company’s aboriginal able city-limits car will be based on VW’s Up! – and will be its a lot of frugal archetypal to date.
Due to barrage afterwards the Up! debuts in 2012, the four-seater is accepted to be badged Joyster – demography the name of the aboriginal Skoda baby car abstraction from 2006. The burghal runabout will battling the brand of the Toyota iQ and Peugeot 107, and will be accepted front-wheel drive afterwards VW ditched the aboriginal rear-engined, rear-wheel-drive format.
The about-face was partly to acquiesce added VW Group brands such as Skoda and SEAT – as able-bodied as new accomplice Suzuki – to body variants for markets about the world, including the UK. Engine data are still to be confirmed, but the Skoda is acceptable to get a 1.0-litre three-cylinder petrol and a 1.2 three-cylinder diesel. Performance will be brisk, yet the focus will be on low emissions – with a sub-80g/km achievement for the agent and beneath than 100g/km for the petrol.
The cheapest Skoda is set to alpha at just beneath £7,500. And as with the VW, an all-electric adaptation will follow.
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