Skoda scales up to double market share

New models, more dealers as Czech brand gains traction

SHANGHAI - Sales by Skoda "will grow faster than the entire passenger car market" as the Czech unit of German carmaker Volkswagen Group doubles its share in China by 2018, Winfried Vahland, Skoda chairman and CEO, told China Daily at the ongoing Shanghai auto show.

Skoda's China sales surged 62 percent year-on-year to 200,000 cars in 2010, accounting for 1.75 percent of the passenger car market.