“It’s hard being a single dad — especially when your son is a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle,” says the back cover to “How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive,” a new novel by Christopher Boucher (Melville House). However curious the book’s premise, it works a pretty well-plowed surrealist furrow, hailing back to Kafka and Gogol by way of [...]
You may remember the name Franz-Josef Paefgen. Until recently, the German engineer and executive was head of both Bentley and Bugatti. Before that he was chief executive of Audi, after working for several years at Ford. He technically “retired” earlier this year, but like the cars he helped create, an executive like Paefgen could never [...]
We have to admit we were more than a little bit intrigued when Skoda showed up at Wörthersee this year with the Fabia RS 2000 roadster you see here. The concept essentially took the company’s S2000 rally machine, gave it a fresh coat of Kermit and chopped off the roof… with four seats and four [...]
This is the all-new Skoda Citigo, and if you’re thinking that it looks rather familiar, that’s because its Volkswagen-badged kin recently debuted at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. That’s right, the long-rumored Skoda version of Volkswagen’s new Up! city car has finally arrived. Buyers will have a choice of two 1.0-liter three-cylinder engines – one [...]
From laughing stock to serial award winners – Skoda has gone from strength to strength as sales across the world have rocketed. The Czech brand – once the butt of many poor jokes – has achieved a remarkable transformation since it became part of the powerful VW Group 20 years ago. Last year the firm [...]
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