Škoda Scala

The Škoda Scala is one of 148 Škoda Auto models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2019. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Škoda Scala properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Porsche Porsche Taycan, the Tesla Tesla Model Y, the Kia Kia EV6 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Škoda Scala reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.0 L 95 Turbocharger / TSI Straight-three engine / I3 / 1.0 L 115 TSI I3 / 1.5 L 150 TSI Evo Inline-four engine / I4 / 1.6 L 110 MPI Inline-four engine /; kerb weight is recorded at 1192–1339 kg; drive goes through 5-speed manual / 6-speed manual / 6-speed automatic / 7-speed DSG; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Škoda Auto story

Within Škoda Auto's own catalogue the Škoda Scala sits alongside the HZS-1, the Trekka, the ÚVMV 1100 GT, the Škoda 100. The record names the Škoda Rapid Spaceback as its predecessor and the designer = Oliver Stefani, Petr Matušinec, Dalibor Pantůček, Karl Neuhold, Martin Paclt as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Oliver Stefani, Petr Matušinec, Dalibor Pantůček, Karl Neuhold, Martin Paclt. Assembly is recorded at Czech Republic: Mladá Boleslav.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Škoda Scala costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.