Production of passenger cars in Czech Republic has been multiplied by 2 since 2005
- Production of cars in Czech Republic has grown considerably since the end of the Communist regime in 1991 and the takeover of the only national company, Skoda, by the German carmaker Volkswagen in the same year. But it was above all from the 2000s onwards that the Czech Republic saw its production increase sharply, thanks to the expansion of the Skoda range in the sedan category (Fabia, Scala, Octavia, Superb) and above all in the SUV category (Kamiq, Karoq, Kodiaq, Enyaq), as well as to the Japanese and Koreans, on the one hand the Toyota plant in Kolin in 2005 and on the other the Hyundai plant in Nosovice in 2008.
- Between 2005 and 2023, the Czech Republic's production volume doubled from 600,000 units to 1,223,000 in eighteen years. This makes the Czech Republic Europe's third-largest producer of passenger cars, behind Germany and Spain, but ahead of France.
- If we compare the Czech Republic with France and Slovakia (all three countries have produced roughly the same number of passenger cars since 2020), we can see that the steady growth of Czech car production has enabled it to finally overtake French car production. French car production, having relocated extensively to Southern and Eastern Europe, has been in constant decline since the early 2000s. The two curves crossed in 2020. Since then, the Czech Republic has produced more passenger cars than France.
- In terms of light vehicles production (passenger cars + light utility vehicles), France is still ahead of the Czech Republic because France produces a lot of LUVs, while the Czech Republic doesn't produce any at all.