Skoda CEO Thomas Schäfer has described 2021 as “one of the most challenging years in [the car maker’s] history”, reporting a global sales decrease of 12.9% to 878,200 units.
It means the Czech firm failed to sell more than one million cars for the first time in eight years.
Amid the semiconductor crisis and Covid pandemic that have affected the entire industry, almost every market was down for Skoda with one outlier: India, where sales increased 108.9% compared with 2020 thanks to the introduction of the Kushaq mid-sized SUV.
