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Good going for Skoda. Very glad that VW/Skoda investments and strategy is off to a good start. They will quickly need to cover other segments as well.

Close to 3 months and Just 10K booking!

Isn't it a bit awkward if not embarrassing to be seen this news as a new thread!

Success is relative. For a company selling 1000 copies a month for a long time, 10000 bookings in just 3 months is a lot. Skoda/VW isn't perceived to be a mass market brand in India at least.

Updated prices of Kushaq AT 1L and 1.5L:

Gets an increment of ₹ 40,000 to the current prices.

The Skoda Kushaq 1.0 Style AT is now priced at ₹ 16.20 lakh, while the Kushaq 1.5 Style AT with the additional features is priced at ₹ 18 lakh (all prices, ex-showroom India). Deliveries for the new variants will begin in October this year.

Follow the link here.

If they are able to do 3000 units per month (in the long run) its still good numbers for them. Kushaq is petrol only model, so in relative comparison Creta will only be selling around 4000 units of petrol in a month.
But the big question is, will Skoda be able to sustain that 3k units with all these new launches in that space - let's wait and see.

Skoda should be more than happy of they achieve consistent 3000-4000 unit per month.

Also, let us not forget that it's VW cousin Taigun will also be aiming for similar numbers.

A combined 6000 unit per month, is not bad by any angle.

Lesson learnt - GTO was right. Never buying a freshly launched car again. Every customer who pulled out all stops to buy the top end Style AT has just been thrown under the bus !

For prospective customers who value safety over air purifiers, the Kushaq , especially in 1.0 AT form has just become the most affordable 6 airbag CSUV in the segment. :thumbs up

Quite curious if anyone knows whether this also takes into account the cancelled bookings and how many of these cars have actually been picked up by the customers till now.
Good numbers so far for Kushaq, especially considering the FB and twitter posts w.r.t. EPC issues. If the Taigun can also manage similar numbers, VW group will be able to build on this quite easily.

Good start I must say. The more the beta testers the better it would be for the future buyers clap:

Finally got a call for my fuel pump replacement - while I did not face any issues till date, definitely gives me more peace of mind !

Anything I should look out for ? Workshop says the entire process will take approximately 4 hrs.

There are two campaigns going on, one is for fuel pump, other is for driver side power window.

I have faced one touch up down issue twice in last 2 months of owning kushaq. Though I didn't say anything to SA regarding it, they added this campaign themselves.

Changed window lifter motor and fuel pump ofcourse.

The latest issue of Autocar has published the full road tests of the 4 Kushaq powertrains.

0-100 times as below (Autocar is generally conservative)

1.0 TSI MT - 11.47 Seconds
1.0 TSI AT - 13.16 seconds
1.5 TSI MT - 9.57 seconds
1.5 TSI DSG - 9.54 seconds

City / Highway Fuel Economy in kpl:

1.0 TSI MT - 11.8 / 14.3
1.0 TSI AT - 8.5 / 12.4
1.5 TSI MT - 11.5/16.5
1.5 TSI DSG - 8.9/15.4

The 1.5 TSI is superior to the 1.0 TSI in both acceleration and fuel economy! Now you can have the cake and eat it too! But seriously, the economy of the 1.5 TSI manual is simply amazing - Even Diesel cars will struggle to come close to that highway figure in Autocar tests. Equivalent Autocar figures for Harrier Diesel Manual is 15.3 KPL, Jeep Compass Diesel Manual is 14.2 KPL and Hector Diesel MT is 16.5 KPL. Coming to petrols, a much smaller car, the Sonet 1.0 Turbo petrol iMT, does 15.8 KPL and the tiny Nissan Magnite turbo petrol manual manages 16.1 KPL.

I guess the cylinder deactivation tech is what works the magic here.

I easily got 16.5 kmpl on my 1.0 MT in multiple long drives of 200 kms or more. Though if you move around in city. Speed maintained was from 80-110 most of the time. In city now I started getting 12kmpl. This is as per MID though. Autocar measurement might be better than mine.

My Rapid 1.0 TSI MT fetches north of 16kmpl (full tank method) on the highways within the legal speed. Present day Bangalore traffic brings not more than 12-13kmpl in the city and it could go worse when the schools and offices are reopened.

Even in the mixed driving conditions involving the city traffic, highway cruise and occasional quick bursts fetches around 13.5kmpl though I was expecting something much lower.

Here’s the FE summarised during my one year ownership. Not bad, rather I’m impressed seeing this from a turbo petrol.

1.5 TSI cant match Harrier Diesel Manual in terms of mileage. My friend has a harrier and he easily gets above 18 kmpl on highways. Mileage in a turbo petrol engine will drop drastically during sporty driving :Frustrati but same is not case with diesel Harrier.
ACT does not help much during highway drives as it hardly gets activated above ~80 kmph ( when the accelerator pedal is released slightly at high-speed then ACT can be activated up to 130 kmph). ACT does help a lot during city drives.