Archive for the ‘Skoda’ Category

Skoda Fabia vRS 2000 Design Concept

Thursday, June 2, 2011 13:59 by No Comments
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Skoda’s treat for tuning fans at this year’s Wörthersee GTI meet is this Fabia vRS 2000 Design Concept. Read More… Although it looks like a normal vRS that’s been driven under a lorry and has lost its roof, but Skoda says it’s “an original roadster pursuing a single goal: dynamism and the joy of sporty [...]

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Skoda Fabia GreenLine Does 2,006 km On One Tank

Friday, May 13, 2011 17:39 by No Comments
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Before you get too excited that if you buy a Skoda Fabia Greenline you’ll never have to worry about fuel again, we have to point out this record has been achieved economy driving world champion Gerhard Plattner. Read More… So you won’t be getting this amazing fuel economy of 2.2 liter per 100 km (127.8 [...]

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Skoda Takes On Corsica Rally With Six Fabia Super 2000

Tuesday, May 10, 2011 17:56 by No Comments
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Skoda Fabia’s IRC rally career is going on superb, as they prepare for the Corsica Rally while topping the Manufacturers rankings after the first two events. Read More… They will be attacking the beautiful and lustrous hills of Corsica with six Fabia Super 2000s, three factory cars and three privateers. The Corsica rally consists of [...]

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Skoda’s Winged Arrow Logo Turns 85

Tuesday, May 10, 2011 17:19 by 1 Comment
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Skoda is celebrating the 85th anniversary of its famous winged arrow logo by reminiscing about a very special car. Read More… It is the ŠKODA Hispano Suiza which rolled off the assembly line in Mladá Boleslav and was delivered to the president of Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. Production of the vehicle commenced in the spring [...]

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New Look For Skoda

Friday, April 15, 2011 15:25 by No Comments
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. Skoda cars are generally deemed uncool because of their dull and boring design. You never buy a Skoda because you want one, you buy it because you need it or because you can’t afford a better car! That’s all about to change though. Read More… As previewed with the Concept Vision D (pictured above), [...]

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2011 Skoda Octavia Hatchback UK Price

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 16:03 by No Comments
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Skoda is taking reasonableness to the next level with their offer on the new Octavia Hatchback! This fine and generously equipped car is available right now at £10,995 on the road or from just £149 per month with Skoda Finance. Read More… The model you get for with this offer – saving of £3,735 (25%) [...]

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Skoda Fabia R2 Rally Car

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 19:10 by No Comments
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With the Fabia R2, Skoda has prepared a light and easy to handle rally car to be used in rally category R2. It is an affordable way for enthusiasts who want to try their hand at pro rallying. Read More… Skoda Fabia R2 ispowered by a 1.6 l 16V engine that makes 132 kW and [...]

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Skoda VisionD Design Concept

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 6:48 by 1 Comment
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This year’s Geneva Motor Show is packed with interesting cars. Even Skoda has come up with a fascinating concept car called the ‘VisionD’ which shows the brand’s new design language. They also unveil a new logo. Read More… This particular car seems to be a notchback, but it’s the face of it that will inspire [...]

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Skoda Fabia Monte Carlo

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 13:38 by No Comments
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Skoda will be competing in 2011 Intercontinental Rally Challenge Series IRC, which they won last year, with a new Fabia model. The new season kicks off in Monte Carlo. Now to celebrate that, and also 110th anniversary of the brand’s motorsport efforts, they launch the special edition Skoda Fabia Monte Carlo. Read More… This sporty [...]

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Skoda In World Rally Championship

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 16:18 by No Comments
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Winning this year’s IRC gave Skoda the confidence to try their luck in World Rally Championship as well. So they acted quickly and teamed up with Red Bull and the private team BRR to form a team for 2011 S-WRC. This team sees the IRC champions Juho Hänninen & the Finn Mikko Markkula along with [...]

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Skoda Fabia RS Limited Edition

Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:18 by No Comments
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You might not know this, but Skoda has been involved in motorsport for nearly 110 years! Now to celebrate this, and also to mark the recent victory at International Rally Championship (IRC), Sokda released a new limited edition of the Fabia RS inspired by the IRC winning Fabia S2000 rally car. Read More… The car’s [...]

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New 4×4 System For Skoda Octavia and Superb

Tuesday, November 2, 2010 15:03 by No Comments
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Just in time for the cold season Skoda is introducing a new 4×4 all-wheel-drive system for selected models of Octavia and Superb range. Incorporating a fourth-generation Haldex clutch, this system ensures safe driving on slippery roads and tricky conditions where a two-wheel-drive would struggle to find grip. Read More… Under normal traction conditions, 96% of [...]

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Video: Skoda Fabia vRS Commercial

Monday, November 1, 2010 18:47 by No Comments

These days most of the car manufacturers are changing face, shaking off the old image and trying to create a new cooler, more exciting one! And despite their efforts to go green, they like to develop the new image around their hottest and most fun cars. Take Skoda for example, here they came up with [...]

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Skoda Octavia Green E Line

Thursday, September 30, 2010 9:00 by No Comments
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All car makers in the world are going electric at an incredible speed, even Skoda! At the ongoing Paris Motor Show they revealed their very first electric car in form of the Octavia Green E Line concept. This experimental car features an electric powertrain that provides constant power of 60 kW and max. power of [...]

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Skoda Superb 1.6 TDI From £17,480

Thursday, August 19, 2010 17:17 by No Comments
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It might not look like it, but Skoda Superb is a very fine car offering great value for money.  It has high quality, it’s practical and spacious, plus it’s discreet and therefore cool. Now The Czech company is introducing a new 1.6 TDI Common Rail version in UK which adds superb economy to the list [...]

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