Skoda Auto makes more in third quarter than whole of 2006

Skoda Auto increased its pre-tax profits by almost 40 percent in the third quarter of this year. In the three-month period profits for the Mlada Boleslav carmaker reached 14.8 billion crowns - more than the 14.2 billion crowns it earned in the whole of 2006. By the end of September Skoda Auto had produced almost 450,000 vehicles, representing an increase of almost 10 percent on the same nine-month period last year.