Skoda Drops Citigo For Good As It Focuses On Bigger Models

In a surprising turn of events, Skoda has decided to pull the plug on the Citigo – yep, that includes the Citigoᵉ iV electric model too.

We should have probably seen it coming, considering that it has been around since 2011, but the zero-emission version was only introduced last year, and it looked like it has what it takes to make a splash in the segment – after all, it was the Volkswagen Group’s cheapest EV.

What is even more surprising is that the city car, which is a rebadged version of the Volkswagen Up! and Seat Mii, will not return in Skoda’s portfolio as a new generation. Instead, the Czech automaker will turn its attention to the bigger models, for the foreseeable future, or as long as VW doesn’t introduce a smaller version of the MEB (EV-only) architecture that could support such a vehicle.

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“[The] Citigo is gone – as far as Europe is concerned, we are sold out”, the company’s chief of sales and marketing, Alain Favey, told Autocar. “There will not be a replacement of the Citigo and we have no intention to have a car of this size in the future. If one day there is a version of the Volkswagen Group’s MEB platform, which allows smaller cars to be produced, we would have a Skoda version, but I don’t know about such plans. But as far as the Citigo is concerned, the game is over.”

The Citigoᵉ iV is not on sale on Skoda’s websites in Germany, France and Italy, but it is still listed in Spain and in the United Kingdom.

Powered by a single electric motor that makes 82 HP (83 PS / 61 kW) and 156 lb-ft (212 Nm) of torque, the Citigoᵉ iV does the 0-62 mph (0-100 km/h) acceleration in 12.5 seconds. It maxes out at 81 mph and has a 140-170-mile (225-274-km) range in the WLTP cycle with the 36.8 kWh lithium-ion battery fully charged.

The demise of the Citigo hasn’t left Skoda without an EV, as it introduced the Enyaq iV battery-electric crossover earlier this week. The model is offered with five different powertrains, with outputs ranging between 146 HP (148 PS / 109 kW) and 302 HP (306 PS / 225 kW), and a maximum autonomy of 317 miles (510 km).