Skoda Put Its Entire Indian Car Fleet On A Race Track: Here's What Happened
Skoda Auto India has set a new record under the supervision of the India Book of Records and the Asia Book of Records: the Fastest Multi-Car Relay of a Single Manufacturer on a Circuit. Five Skoda cars, driven consecutively by five drivers in a single uninterrupted relay, completed the 3.8 km CoASTT circuit in Coimbatore with a combined time of 12 minutes, 30.97 seconds, including pit-lane changeovers between cars. This is the opening move in Skoda's new G.O.A.T campaign, which stands for Greatest On A Track.
The five cars in the relay were the Kylaq 1.0 AT, Kushaq 1.5 DSG, Slavia 1.5 DSG, Kodiaq Selection L and K, and the Octavia RS. Together, they cover every segment in Skoda's current range, from the sub-4 metre entry SUV to the flagship sports sedan.
The lap times are the most interesting part of this exercise. The Kylaq, Skoda's smallest and most affordable car here, lapped the 3.8 km circuit in 2 minutes, 31.6 seconds.
The Kushaq SUV did it in 2:29.7 and the Slavia sedan in 2:27.63. The Kodiaq, a seven-seat 4x4 luxury SUV, posted 2:26.34 despite its size and weight. The Octavia RS was quickest at 2:10.85, as expected from the dedicated performance model in the lineup.
The gap between the slowest car in the relay, the Kylaq, and the fastest, the Octavia RS, is just over 20 seconds per lap. For a range that spans from a compact SUV priced around 8 lakh rupees at entry level to a performance sedan well above 30 lakh rupees, that is a tighter spread than most would expect.
The Kodiaq being only 15 seconds per lap behind the Octavia RS across a 3.8 km circuit is the most surprising data point in the set, given that the Kodiaq is the heaviest, most comfort-focused car of the five.
Skoda has been in motorsport since 1901, which means its racing involvement predates many of the car companies it competes with today. The RS badge, which stands for Rally Sport, appeared on a Skoda for the first time in 1975 on the 130 RS.
That was a purpose-built competition car with a genuine rally record in European events. Skoda's current Octavia RS carries the same badge, though it is a road car built around a turbocharged 2.0-litre petrol engine and a DSG gearbox rather than a stripped rally machine.
The G.O.A.T campaign builds its claim on this history. By running cars from every price point in its range on the same circuit under the same timed conditions, Skoda is making a traceable, verifiable argument rather than a marketing assertion. The CoASTT lap times are on record with two record-keeping bodies, which gives the exercise more credibility than a polished brand film or a track day arranged purely for media.
Skoda Auto India sold 72,665 cars in 2025, a 107 percent jump over the previous year. The brand now operates across 182 cities with over 330 customer touchpoints.
For a company that spent much of its first decade here as a low-volume premium play, those numbers represent a genuine shift in scale. The G.O.A.T campaign follows that commercial momentum with a positioning exercise aimed at connecting Skoda's performance engineering history to the broader range that most buyers will actually consider.