@arturoroger

Welcome to the forum.

Sorry but a bit confused by what you are saying.

If Skoda have customers & orders for the cars arriving in the UK then how is it costing sales. 

That only happens when they get their calculations wrong and have stock or demonstrators / management cars sitting and no buyers.

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Which country are you in, the UK?

Yes I am in the UK.  I wanted the new Octavia BUT only DSG and basically the car is not available -- I only lease and I was offered one car but the dealer wanted almost £6.000 initial payment and then 200 per month. 

I said OK it is too too expensive so I will give you a factory order -- he said no, it changes nothing -- they still want nearly £6,000 initial payment.   Even then the dealers seemed unable to tell me the build time for the 

car -- so my logical conclusion was to move across to VW where they gave me better prices and build times. 

@arturoroger

That will not stop whoever Skoda UK has as the latest Brand Director if they have found one from VW from telling the press that they have had a very successful year after lock down was lifted with have a selection of new Greener Models with Mild Hybrids and Plug ins.

Even though they discontinued the Citigo iV with only 400 imported to the UK.

That will be even with some Franchised Dealers with Employees unable to tell potential customers very much about the products or delivery or even how things in them work.

 

It is just how Skoda UK is now, they sell cars to people if they try hard enough to get them.  

Many now just swerve Skoda Dealers to arrange a purchase and go to Brokers and only pick cars up at dealerships.

Edited 10 September, 20205 yr by e-Roottoot

Yes you are correct.  I went to two dealers for a VW - 1 took 4.5 hours to call me back and the other dealere knew little or nothing about leasing -- so I went to on line broker who understood what I wanted and the 

deal was struck very quickly and efficiently..   I did not try it with the Skoda because one of the dealers had previously leased me two cards and knew exactly what they were doing.