Posts Tagged ‘skoda’
You know, it’s strange. Initially I wasn’t too fussed about it but now the Superb is fast becoming one of my favourite new cars. While – as someone who grew up in the time of the box-like lumps they used to call Skodas – is kind of strange, isn’t that surprising given the current economical [...]
Ok, not so long ago I did a post asking how Superb Skoda’s new motor really was. Well, thanks to a bit of free time, people asking me if I had an answer yet and a certain Sussex Skoda dealer I was able to find out.
I’m not one for writing road tests. I don’t have [...]
Now this is what I call great news: Skoda have re-started their 5 day working week at their Czech factories.
They had proposed a four-day working week for the first half of 2009 but thanks to an increase in demand for new Skoda cars, particularly in Germany, it’s back to work the the thouasands of workers [...]
It’s a term that I’ve heard increasingly often and usually in reference to music and films (someone only willing to admit liking Footloose -film or song – if it’s under the amnesty of a Guilty Pleasure) but I was talking to a mate about what he calls his guilty driving pleasure.
By this I don’t mean [...]
I’ve been surfing around this Lincoln Skoda dealer’s website lately and I’m curious about the new Skoda Superb and whether it really is, well, superb.
The advertising for it said “we started with the name and worked backwards.” Which suggests a team of designers all trying to make the most superb car. Did they succeed?
It looks [...]
I’ve been arguing with my younger brother lately. He has one of those magnetic ‘cool walls’ and a school boy like appreciation of cars so our opinions on what’s cool or un-cool differs greatly.
I approach the debate as a hardened driver of many years and many cars of varying degrees of greatness and I look [...]


