Czech carmaker Skoda is more or less done hiding its Rapid sedan prototypes, one of which was snagged by our scoop photographers while running around the Nürburgring racetrack in Germany.
Skoda’s engineers simply applied some convincing, but fake, decals on the tail lamps, the top part of the headlamps, and the rear door lines, just to keep our spies on their toes.
Other than that, what you see in these pictures is what European buyers will get when the compact sedan model makes its first public outing at the Paris Motor Show this September before reaching dealerships at the end of the year.
The European market Rapid (Skoda also sells a smaller and unrelated Rapid sedan in India) is the production variant of the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show Mission L Concept.
The Rapid rides on a 2,600mm wheelbase and measures just under 4.5 meters in length, which places it between the Fabia supermini and the mid-size Octavia in Skoda’s automobile lineup.
When the liftback model goes on sale in Europe, it will be offered with the usual mix of small displacement gasoline and diesel engines we find in other VW Group models of the same size.
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