New-Gen Skoda Octavia India Launch Details Out

Skoda Auto India is all set to launch the new generation of the Octavia in the country on June 10, 2021. The company was to launch the car in May this year but the plan was postponed because of the pandemic. We told you back in April that production of the car had already begun at the company's plant manufacturing facility in Aurangabad, Maharashtra and the first car to roll out of the facility was the top-spec Lauren & Klement variant in the new signature Lava Blue colour.

The new-gen Skoda Octavia is being produced at the company's manufacturing facility in Aurangabad, Maharashtra

The fourth generation of the Octavia is based on the updated MQB platform and is larger than the outgoing car. It is now longer by 19 mm at 4689 mm and 15 mm wider at 1829 mm.Visually, the 2021 Skoda Octavia comes with a new chrome grille, new headlights with optional Matrix LED technology, sculpted bumper with bold line horizontal LED foglamps connected by a chrome strip. At the rear, the car comes with a new sharper-looking boot lid with the Skoda lettering at the centre and new LED taillamps, and a sculpted bumper.

In the 20 years it's been in the country Skoda has sold more than 1 lakh units of the Octavia

The Octavia will only be available with the single petrol engine which will be a 2-litre unit. The TSI engine will offer 188 bhp and 320 Nm and it will be offered only with the DSG automatic transmission. On launch, the Octavia will go up against the likes of the Hyundai Elantra but is likely to be priced higher than it.