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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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Topic: Skoda

Skoda Kylaq thrills on the road but doesn’t match Nexon or Brezza in features, market reach

After driving the Kylaq, I think if Skoda built a small hatchback on this platform with lower ground clearance and tighter suspension, it could become an affordable enthusiast car.

Skoda unlikely to exit India. Might rope in local partner to understand market

While Skoda Auto entered the Indian market in 2001 and their vehicles have been well regarded, the automaker has been left behind by its competition.

Creta, S-Class, Q7—do car names matter? Skoda’s new competition shows they do

Skoda has set up a website where the public can make their suggestions for its SUV coming out next year. The brand director says the competition will strengthen the brand.

Mercedes-Benz to Skoda—the driving experience is fundamentally changing. Over to software

Cars are getting ‘updated’ like a smartphone. With tech companies seeking a deeper integration with them, carmakers face an existential challenge.

Music, phone, tyre pressure, cruise – your car steering manages all these & turns the wheel too

Steering wheels have come a long way in the past couple of decades ever since steering-mounted controls became a thing in the late 1990s on top-end luxury cars.

Remember Skoda’s Laura? Car names can go horribly wrong and no one wants to be bold anymore

Not just lawyers, in order to avoid a repeat of the ‘Laura incident’, most car companies employ teams of linguists across the world.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.