Skoda lifts expectation on full-year sales

BEIJING - Buoyed by strong performance in the first eight months and growing demand from Chinese buyers, Volkswagen Group's Czech brand Skoda is aiming at 60 percent sales growth this year.

Peter Miling, Skoda sales chief at Sino-German joint venture Shanghai Volkswagen Automobile Co, told China Daily last week during the Chengdu auto show that the brand expects to move about 200,000 cars in China this year, up from 123,000 units in 2009.

Skoda's sales in China surged by more than 70 percent in the first eight months of this year to 140,000 units, Miling said.