Founded in Mladá Boleslav in 1896 as Laurin & Klement, a bicycle maker that added motorcycles and then cars, and renamed Škoda after a 1925 merger with the Škoda Works engineering conglomerate.[1] The company was nationalised under Czechoslovakia’s communist government after 1945, and privatised again after 1989; Volkswagen took a stake in 1991 and full ownership by 2000, making Škoda the oldest marque in the Volkswagen Group.
Brand
Škoda
Škoda Auto a.s.
- Founded
- 1896
- Origin
- Czech Republic
- Nameplates
- 2
Identity
- Country of origin
- Czech Republic
- Founded
- 1896
- Parent company
- Volkswagen
- Website
- www.skoda-auto.com
Nameplates (2)
Computed from every entry that names this brand, never a hand-maintained list. Each nameplate is a hub over its own generations.
Cars (4)
Every generation and halo trim from this brand, with the figures each one carries. Sort by any column; a car we have not sourced a figure for sorts last rather than as a zero.
4 of 4
Body style
Era
| Škoda Fabia Mk1 6Y | 1999–2007 | 96 kW | 9.6 s | 206 km/h | — |
| Škoda Fabia Mk3 NJ | 2014–2022 | 81 kW | 9.4 s | 196 km/h | — |
| Škoda Octavia Mk1 1U | 1996–2010 | 132 kW | — | — | — |
| Škoda Octavia Mk4 NX | 2019– | 150 kW | 7.5 s | 220 km/h | — |
Sources & attribution
- Last verified
- 2026-09-04
- Origin axis
- Czech Republic
Logo: File:Škoda Auto 2022 text logo.svg · Škoda Auto. Displayed unmodified to identify this car, editorially and without any suggestion of endorsement or affiliation. Commons records the file as public domain for copyright purposes with an explicit 'trademarked' restriction; the basis for display here is trademark nominative use, not a copyright licence.
Accent colour: Sampled from the fill colour used in the wordmark's own SVG source (#0D392E), a dark green matching Škoda's current brand identity.
References
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Škoda Auto. Wikipedia · revision 1372584112 · read 2026-09-04
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