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OREANDA-NEWS. Skoda vehicles of 2016 model year will get a lineup of less consumption and more powerful engines, as well as increased range of options and packages. New vehicles will come on sale in the Russian market in June 2015, Skoda press service in Russia reports. 

The Skoda Rapid compact liftback will get the largest number of updates and will be equipped with new 1.6 MPI  EA 211 air engine with increased capacity of 90 hp (135 g. CO2/km, 5.8 l/100 km) and 110 hp (136 g. CO2/km, 5.9 l/100 km), as well as 1.4 TSI 125 hp engine  (114 g. CO2/km, 4.8 l/100km) . Production of  1.2 TSI baseline petrol engine (75 hp) will be stopped. Air engines are coupled with 5-speed manual and  6-speed automatic gearboxes; 1.4 TSI version goes with DSG-7.

In the first quarter of 2015 Skoda sales in Russia came up to15,308  vehicles - 19% less than during the same period of the previous year. The Rapid compact liftback became Skoda bestseller in the Russian market with 6,196 vehicles sold during the period under review. So, it left behind the Octavia, which was chosen by 6,041 customers (-35.9%).