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Octaviaaaaaaaaargh, Part 2
Okay, stop sniggering at the back there. The fastest two litre, forced induction production car in the world is a Skoda Octavia vRS with the mother of all turbochargers, scaffolding in the back and a set of moon discs on the wheel. evo journalist Dickie Meaden drove it to a two-way average of 227.070mph at …
Rotter, The Driving God Of Low Tyre Wear.
Everyone* remembers Richard Hammond yelling “I am a driving god!” when being more than usually exuberant in a Bowler Wildcat. He was hooning around somewhere. It might have been a quarry. Whenever the Beeb does anything with stretches plausibility, there’s a quarry involved. Okay, it’s usually a Dr Who set and there really isn’t the …
Octaviaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!
Now that Skoda is no longer the butt of all those old jokes, they’re still left with a bit of an problem. It’s a different one from the one they used to have. They’re now solidly middle class and respectable. The Yeti has made the Qashqai look dated and dour. The Superb was Top Gear …
Things I Like, Part 1 – A Nice Skoda
I like nice things. I know that sounds daft. I mean, who’s going to admit to liking nasty things? Some women say they like bad boys; that they get a buzz out of the company of a man who treats them like something left on the bottom of a muddy boot at a farm kitchen …