Volkswagen to Make VW, Skoda, Seat More Distinct
Volkswagen is planning to make its three mainstream brands more different, with a view to making the company more efficient. CEO Matthias Mueller told Reuters that the automaker’s board was planning a...
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Tiny Vintage Skoda Racer is Adorable
Volkswagen Group budget brand Skoda isn’t exactly well known here in North America, but the automaker is actually one of the oldest around. Skoda started building cars in 1895. For 116 of those 122...
View ArticleWatch: Skoda Shows Off Emergency Vehicles
Everyone concedes that a man looks about 22.5% more handsome when he’s wearing a uniform and the same basic tenet holds for cars, though experts still disagree on the figures. So we should count...
View ArticleSkoda Adding Challenge Plus Pack to Octavia RS
Skoda is bringing a hotter Octavia to the Geneva Motor Show. The Octavia RS is getting a Challenge Plus package to make a sportier version of the RS 245. The Octavia is Skoda’s compact sedan and wagon,...
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Skoda High School Students Chop Karoq’s Top to Make Sunroq Crossover
A team of high school students from the Czech Republic have made a one-off convertible concept based on the Karoq crossover. The project was a year-long effort for the students of the Skoda vocational...
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Sabine Schmitz Sets Seven-Seat ‘Ring Record in Kodiaq vRS
The Skoda Kodiaq vRS has just set a record around the ring, with everyone’s favorite high-speed taxi driver behind the wheel. When it comes to setting fast times around the 12.9-mile long Nürburgring...
View ArticleUm Okay. Watch a Dude Catch an Arrow from a Skoda, I Guess?
I mean… it’s impressive. I’m not really sure why anyone would do this or what it proves about the Octavia Combi RS 245, but it certainly did earn Markus Haas a world record. So there’s that. And I bet...
View ArticleSkoda Pushing Bold Design Before EV Arrival
Skoda is looking for more emotional styling to help showcase the brand’s values. And they want to do it before they make the transition to electrification. Skoda’s new design head, Oliver Stefani,...
View ArticleSkoda Students Build Sweet Kodiaq-Based Pickup
The VW Atlas Tanoak isn’t the only crossover-based pickup concept in the VW Group lineup. And this latest one from Skoda seems a whole lot cooler. It’s the Skoda Mountiaq. Yes, that name’s a bit of a...
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Skoda Introduces Wireless CarPlay to the MQB Platform
Although it has been available on some of Audi’s bigger cars, wirelessly connecting your phone to your car’s infotainment continues to be a pretty rare feature. In fact, Audi, BMW, and MINI are the...
View ArticleNon-VW Performance Models at the Geneva Motor No-Show
The Touareg R, Golf GTI, GTD, and GTE weren’t the only performance variants to make their debuts at the sadly canceled Geneva Motor Show this year: Cupra and Skoda had their own performance variants...
View ArticleThe Skoda Slavia is the Student-Built Concept We All Needed
Much like VW does when Worthersee comes around, Skoda has handed over one of its models to its apprentices and let them have at it. The result, the Slavia—a two-seat spider based on the Scala....
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