I don't really care. As long as Skoda maintain enough sales here to remain viable, then I am hppy. I'd rather Skoda not be a volume seller, otherwise I will lose the uniqueness of my car.

CX5 just looks like any Mazda 3 out there. I bet in 1 year time, there will be CX5 everywhere, and you can't even recognize your own car in the shopping center.

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Quote Originally Posted by BluChris View Post
Good looking? Really? I feel its looks are, um, challenging TBH and that the Yeti kills it in this area. Either way, the Mazda will cream the Skoda in sales. So many people have said it, but VWA really needs to start listening on price. The current situation where Skoda is (a) not especially cheap (b) priced very close to VW product is nuts.
Skoda never wanted to be volume sellers. Matt Wiesner said it himself. He brought in the uppermarket Octavia and Superbs before Yeti and Fabia, so that there will be a "prestige" feeling to the marque. He didn't want to go for the Korean approach, with cheap cars to steal the sales, which gave the Koreans a cheap image that still plague them until now.

Also the factory in Czech can't keep up with the demand if it becomes a mass volume seller. In we wnat it cheap, VW Aus will probably try to source the car from India or China, like what Honda did, which totally shattered its image as "BMW of Japan" and costed its sales.