The Škoda Scala is a 5-door hatchback from Škoda Auto, built from 2019, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine. Oliver Stefani, Petr Matušinec, Dalibor Pantůček, Karl Neuhold, Martin Paclt drew it.
The background
The Škoda Scala is a small family car or compact hatchback (C-segment) manufactured by Czech automaker Škoda Auto. The car is intended to fit between the Fabia and the Octavia, and to be a competitor to the cars in the C-segment hatchback segment. The Scala was unveiled in December 2018. An online configurator was accessible in January 2019, and sales officially began in May 2019.
Earlier, it was assumed that the new car would be called Felicia, Garde, Spaceback or Popular, however the name Scala was announced on October 15, 2018. Scala means "stairs" or "ladder" in Latin, according to the car maker it presents a big step forward in the compact car segment. This name has already appeared several times in the past, including the Renault Scala, which was sold between 2012 and 2017, and the Zastava Skala, a small family car between 1971 and 2008. The Scala has a very similar appearance and proportions to the Skoda Rapid Spaceback which was manufactured in the Czech Republic from 2012 to 2019.
The engineering
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1192–1339 kg. It shifts through a 5-speed manual / 6-speed manual / 6-speed automatic / 7-speed DSG. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2649 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Škoda Rapid Spaceback; assembly was at Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Porsche Taycan, the Tesla Model Y, the Kia EV6 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Škoda Auto stablemates include the HZS-1 and the Trekka.