The Aurangabad facility is also shared by Audi to assemble its cars sold in India as CKDs. Skoda has worked towards addressing this issue and is getting better at the sales and service front with transparent practices and better parts availability than before. Skoda made its name quick but began to lose it soon enough with poor quality after sales and service, so much so that its reputation as a carmaker with highly expensive running and maintenance costs overshadowed the cars itself. The Indian premium sedan segment hadn’t seen such a car before and was taken to European built cars that didn’t cost a lot. It was an instant success as the handling, build quality, mileage and price were all excellent. The Skoda Octavia was the first domestically built car in 2002. A manufacturing facility was established near Aurangabad in Maharashtra with an annual capacity to manufacture 40,000 vehicles. Skoda came to India in 2001 and set up Skoda Auto India Pvt Ltd. Czechoslovakian carmaker Skoda is a subsidiary of the Volkswagen group.
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