The 31st running of the GTI-Treffen, the annual Volkswagen do held in Lake Wörthersee, Austria, had the usual custom car unveils, among them VW’s Golf GTI Black Dynamic and Polo R WRC Street concept.

Over at Skoda, there was the Citigo Rally design concept, which might make it into some form of series production eventually. The white car – with a black roof and additional colour accents – goes the OTT route, with massive bumpers, rear wing, a generous air intake in the front apron and forged 18-inch wheels with low-profile tyres.

The car also gets generously-sized fenders and massive door sills to help widen its girth, and a centrally-mounted exhaust end pipe dominates the car’s rear.

Inside, there’s a roll cage, and both driver and passenger get race seats, and the dashboard has been optimised for weight – the central console’s purely functional switches and buttons are strongly reminiscent of those in rally cars.

The event also saw the advent of the Skoda Citigo DJ Car. This one is a essentially a mixer on four wheels – the three-door car’s rear can be retracted from the B column on back, turning the vehicle into a mobile stage. The vehicle was certainly put to good use, with a DJ mixing and sampling his hits from it on stage.

Some news about the Skoda Citigo. The company has announced that the five-door version of the city car – essentially the cousin of the Volkswagen Up! – is set to debut at the Geneva show next month, joining the three-door version which was revealed last September and which began selling in its home market, the Czech Republic, in late 2011.

Like the three-door variant, it’ll be powered by a 1.0 litre three-cylinder MPI mill in two output tunes, 60 PS and 75 PS, and should be presumably mated to the same five-speed manual transmission as found in the former. Both five- and three-door models are scheduled to be successively launched in European markets starting from mid-May this year.

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Skoda has announced details of its Citigo city car, which will make its debut in its home market, the Czech Republic, late this year before entering the rest of Europe from next summer.

The company’s sixth production model is a four-seater that will be available in three-door and five-door versions, and is essentially the Skoda version of the Volkswagen Up! It’s pretty much a dead ringer for its Veedub cousin in terms of numbers – the Citigo measures in at 3.56 metres long, 1.65 metres wide and 1.48 metres high, and will wear the same 1.0 litre three-cylinder MPI mill, offered in two output versions, 60 PS and 75 PS, both mated to a five-speed manual transmission.

Performance figures for the 929 kg vehicle are a 159 kph top speed and a 13.9 seconds 0-100 kph time for the 60 PS variant and a 170 kph top speed and 0-100 kph time of 12.7 seconds for the 75 PS version. Both models wear 14-inch wheels wrapped with 165/70 profile rubbers.

Despite its small size, the company says the car offers ample interior space – to wit, a long-ish 2.42 metre wheelbase offers enough comfort for four even on long trips, and there’s a 251 litre boot that can be extended to 951 litres with the rear seats folded down. In the three-door version, an ‘Easy Entry’ system allows easy access to the rear seats; the front passenger’s seat can be folded forward to ensure easy ingress to the rear.

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Elsewhere, this one has front headrests integrated into the seats, as well as a number of other smart solutions; the interior design includes numerous storage compartments, cup holders and multimedia systems, as well as storage pockets on the sides of the front seats. In addition, a special bag hook integrated in to the glovebox handle, and a photograph holder on the central console, are two of the more novel interior elements.

Like in the VW Up!, the Citigo will also feature a portable navigation system that’s fitted to the dashboard and easily removable to be used on the go. The system is equipped with a 5-inch touchscreen that provides not just navigation, but also hands-free calling with built-in Bluetooth and onboard infotainment.

Safety systems include a Head-Thorax side airbag to protect the heads of both the driver and the front seat passenger, which debuts on a Skoda. There’s also ‘City Safe Drive’, a new brake assistance system based on a laser sensor that is activated automatically at speeds below 30 km/h when there is danger of a collision.