Shifting gears: How Skoda automated Vrchlabí

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The smallest of Skoda’s production plants, the Vrchlabí site in the Czech Republic has been producing direct shift transmissions for the Volkswagen Group since 2012..

The smallest of Skoda’s production plants, the Vrchlabí site in the Czech Republic has been producing direct shift transmissions for the Volkswagen Group since 2012. Skoda vehicles had been produced there since the 1920s, but in 2011 VW Group decided to convert the factory exclusively to the manufacture of automatic transmissions.

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