It’s over and out for the Skoda Citigo. The brand will stop producing the small city car and focus on a different part of the market. So there will be no successor.
In March it was already announced that the Citigo e-iV, despite the fact that it had only just appeared on the market, was completely sold out for 2020. Now it appears that the model will not return at all. The Citigo e-iV is still listed as ‘temporarily sold out’ on the Dutch Skoda website. We are awaiting a response from Skoda Netherlands about what exactly that will mean for the Dutch market, but Alain Favey, director of marketing and sales, confirmed to Autocar that the model does not return.
Earlier this week, Skoda unveiled the fully electric Enyaq, which is built on Volkswagen’s new MEB platform. According to Favey, the brand wants to focus more on the larger models, because the expensive technology is too expensive for the smaller models. However, he still leaves the door ajar. “Should Volkswagen one day come up with a version of the MEB platform on which smaller cars can be produced, there will also be a variant of Skoda. But I don’t know about such plans yet. ”
Skoda introduced the Citigo in 2011 alongside the Volkswagen Up and the Seat Mii. Over the years, 15,914 copies of the small city squatter have been sold in the Netherlands. In comparison: no fewer than 89,587 cars of the Up have left the showroom. From 2019, the Citigo was only available as an e-iV, an electric variant with a WLTP range of 260 kilometers. After barely a year, the curtain seems to be falling again for this model.