Just playing around on the configurator and noticed the prices of some options have increased - particularly Canton and Columbus (over and above the brochure issued in November when I ordered my car (due for delivery late Feb / 1st March). Seems to have added quite a few hundred quid to the price.

 

Should be an interesting conversation if the dealer wants to try and increase my price!

 

 

There is a new brochure available dated January 2015. Quite a few options have had a price increase - the winter pack for one has gone from £430 to £600!! Likewise the sunset glass has had £60 increase. Plus the increases on the car itself... Soon Skoda will be considered a premium brand!

Your dealer won't increase the price as it was all set at the time of order.

Edited 9 January, 201511 yr by Ciderspace

My Elegance should be arriving mid Feb and will be registered for 1st March. I have a priced order from the dealer and have already got the 0% finance quote so I don't think they would try it on. When I went to sign the order they suddenly and very apologetically said they could no longer honour the full deal we had thrashed out. I said 'oh dear, never mind' and then got up out of the seat, then said 'No matter I have another dealer ready to do a better deal' and began to walk out. Guess what the deal was suddenly available again. How odd!

Oh and the 3 years free servicing is now 'from £149'....

I would not have purchased my VRS at current prices. 18 months ago Skoda were offering 42months 0% finance, 3 years free servicing, plus I achieved 6-7% discount on list price. Buying the same car now would cost me 20% more per month on PCP x42. Prestige German rivals offering VRS performance can be had for less.

Edited 9 January, 201511 yr by Orville

thought that it was the thin edge of the wedge when they incresed the price of metallic then introduced a charge for the solid red, think im driving my last skoda

Edited 9 January, 201511 yr by cortina63

My Elegance should be arriving mid Feb and will be registered for 1st March. I have a priced order from the dealer and have already got the 0% finance quote so I don't think they would try it on. When I went to sign the order they suddenly and very apologetically said they could no longer honour the full deal we had thrashed out. I said 'oh dear, never mind' and then got up out of the seat, then said 'No matter I have another dealer ready to do a better deal' and began to walk out. Guess what the deal was suddenly available again. How odd!

"Market stall" behaviour from what is supposed to be a reputable dealer!

Really irritates me this sort of thing, almost feels like they are stealing off you. Oh wait a minute..............they were!

Edited 9 January, 201511 yr by banksie

Blimey!! Thats some big increases :/

Sometimes these things happen to slow demand, that way they can process a huge backlog. Once that is cleared, then discounts become available again which bring the cars back down in price.

 

Maybe the factories are struggling with demand at the previous price level, a price hike will reduce that demand as less people would order.

Glad I got my order in when I did then (with substantial discount on list price)!

Just worked it out, ordered today my Elegance Estate would have cost me  just over £1200.00 more than I have/will pay on 0%

I saved £750 by sheer luck. Skoda appear to have increased prices on the most popular extras by as much as they think they can get away with, Amundsen is a good example.

With the options I chose it would have been about a grand more if I ordered today! The spare wheel is £25 more? I would have gone with the i40 

 

I did notice the 'new' option of the rough road package though. I probably would have selected that when I ordered at the end of November if it were there.

I ordered my Vrs on 2nd Jan this year. It was the unregistered showroom model, luckily the dealer honored the pre-increase price.

Wow my ordered Scout configuration is now £700 more compared with October and looks like the laser white I ordered is not available (looking at it on my iPad at least).

The list price of my Octavia has increased from £25640 to £26720 since I ordered it in about October 2013. That's up just under £1100 or 4.2% which isn't actually too bad given that it's covered two annual price hikes.

 

I got a decent discount, 0% finance and the three free services at the time.

The price rises stink seeing as the Eurozone is in deflation...

Gonna have a look at mine now and see what it'd cost today.

 

Always buy end of quarter, it gives you more time to compare prices of other cars and dealers have quotas to fill, find a dealer really close to their quota and the discounts just follow.

Will you all stop ordering new cars please!

 

Skoda are getting giddy with the huge sales growth, it's going to their head!

I would not have purchased my VRS at current prices. 18 months ago Skoda were offering 42months 0% finance, 3 years free servicing, plus I achieved 6-7% discount on list price. Buying the same car now would cost me 20% more per month on PCP x42. Prestige German rivals offering VRS performance can be had for less.

Porsche... erm Ruf.... nope.., run out of German prestige car brands now....

Will you all stop ordering new cars please!

 

Skoda are getting giddy with the huge sales growth, it's going to their head!

....and that's why the prices are riding. As soon as sales drop off and remain lower or stagnant, there will be an offer like VAT Free. Until then suck it up.

Still stunning value for money when you consider that an O3 1.2 SE is £1k cheaper than a much less well equipped Golf 1.2 S. This is comparing with a Nov 14 Golf price list, so that will most likely be going up soon!

I noticed the increases the other day. Sunroof is now £1100!!!

Not wanting to be a broken record bit the citigo is looking like the last new skoda I will own.

Yes Skoda is slightly cheaper than a few of the premium brands....but not enough to make you drop the badge snobbery.

And yes I am a Skoda fan boy! !

Some of the prices seem a little steep, but then if you look at the competition they tend to be pretty reasonable.

On a Golf estate GT, leather seats are £1875 instead of £400, but the sunroof is still showing as £900 at the moment, and climate control is a £400 option.

 

Yes, you can sometimes get an Audi for the same price as an optioned up Skoda, but that's often an older model like the A4 that's being heavily discounted and is just a standard car with no options.

 

If you do a genuine like for like comparison with other new cars (not nearly new) that aren't run out specials, and that have an equivalent spec, and then take into account the 0% finance I still think that Skoda will be cheaper.

Such an increase over the space of a month though?!(edit not really the paved for a PCP debate!)

Edited 10 January, 201511 yr by lpt100