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Skoda Australia has a wealthy historical past of charming small passenger vehicles, however stable gross sales of the Czech model’s SUVs thus far in 2025 might spell the top for a minimum of one in every of its slower-selling hatchbacks.
Of the 9 fashions in Skoda’s present native vary, 5 are SUVs. The rest are the lower-volume Excellent massive flagship sedan and wagon, the mid-size Octavia sedan and wagon, the small Scala hatch, and the sunshine Fabia hatch. All however the Octavia are outsold by Skoda’s conventional petrol SUVs.
“I feel [those models are] working in proportional numbers. [They’re] probably not the best sellers, however that is what the ability of the model is about,” Skoda Australia director Lucie Kuhn advised CarExpert on the native launch for the facelifted Enyaq electrical SUV.
“We aren’t relying on just one or two fashions, however we provide all of the broad portfolio to our prospects. Some are promoting a bit much less, some are promoting a bit extra, however the model is constructed up of all these fashions – so truly, each mannequin line issues.”
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Nonetheless, the Fabia and Scala – Skoda Australia’s two smallest fashions – have contributed solely a mixed 307 gross sales to the model’s whole of 2902 thus far this yr, with the Scala accounting for simply 97 of them. When requested whether or not these figures have been sufficient to justify preserving these fashions on sale, Ms Kuhn admitted that “Scala could be a topic of consideration”.
“We’re simply to start with of our evaluation of that mannequin. It’s not essentially concerning the gross sales of the mannequin, as a result of Skoda is a worldwide model and the vary is definitely very effectively matched to the worldwide actions of the model,” she advised CarExpert.
“However contemplating the volumes of the model within the Australian market, the vary is definitely fairly wealthy. So the Scala is, proper now, underneath a sort of evaluation [to see] if it’s truly value it to develop the actions across the automotive, contemplating the scale of the volumes.”
Certainly, the Scala is by far the slowest-selling mannequin in Australia’s mainstream small-car section. With lower than 100 deliveries in 2025, it pales compared to the 13,145 registrations posted by the segment-leading Toyota Corolla thus far this yr, and it’s additionally manner off even the discontinued Kia Cerato (1094 gross sales).
Scala gross sales are additionally down 63 per cent year-to-date, marking an excellent bigger decline than the small-car section general, by which the dominant Corolla is down by 25.8 per cent. So it’s no shock the way forward for the Scala is underneath dialogue at Skoda Australia proper now.
“However as I mentioned, it’s nonetheless good now that we’re discussing [Scala] internally. The reality is that Scala is presently the mannequin the place we’re having some ideas about issues like that,” Ms Kuhn added.
In Australia, the Scala is on the market in two automated variants. The 1.0-litre 85TSI Choose is priced at $33,990 earlier than on-roads, whereas the top-spec 1.5-litre 110TSI Monte Carlo jumps all the way in which to $43,890 earlier than on-roads. For context, the top-selling Corolla begins at $32,110 earlier than on-roads for the Ascent Sport Hybrid.
The Scala vary has shrunk up to now two years, with the Ambition and Signature grades being eliminated with the arrival of a 2024 facelift. Skoda continues to supply a number of totally different engine and transmission mixtures abroad.
The removing of the extra reasonably priced Scala variants is in distinction to Skoda Australia’s strategy to different fashions just like the smaller Fabia, the most recent technology of which was initially launched right here solely in top-spec Monte Carlo guise however was later joined by the entry-level Choose in 2024 – dropping the mannequin’s entry level by some $7000.
Ms Kuhn says the transfer was geared toward broadening the Fabia’s enchantment, even when in contrast to elsewhere on the earth Australians have lengthy most well-liked premium variants of Skoda fashions, however she conceded it nonetheless doesn’t promote effectively sufficient to justify the introduction of even cheaper Fabia variants.
“I might say it’s, once more, a complementary trim that, let’s say, ranges the volumes, but it surely’s not a considerable half,” she advised CarExpert.
“I feel Monte Carlo nonetheless resonates fairly effectively with the purchasers, and we will really feel that curiosity in high-spec nonetheless overshadows the curiosity within the decrease trims.”
The Scala has been on sale in Australia since 2020, following the nameplate’s world launch in 2019. Positioned between the Fabia and Octavia, it changed the Fast and has a lot in widespread with different Volkswagen Group fashions just like the Skoda Kamiq and Volkswagen T-Cross SUVs.
In 2024, the Scala was one in every of Skoda’s lowest-selling fashions globally. It posted 56,300 gross sales for the yr, down on the Enyaq (79,500), Fabia (117,100), Kamiq (126,000) and Octavia (215,700), contributing to the Czech model’s world whole of 926,600 gross sales final yr.
If Skoda was to tug the Scala from Australian showrooms, it might echo the same transfer by fellow European model Mercedes-Benz, which introduced in February this yr that it might discontinue its A-Class small sedan regionally, following the discontinuation of the B-Class in 2023.
Audi can also be gearing as much as finish manufacturing of its A1 compact hatch and Q2 small SUV in 2026, which received’t be straight changed.
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