[thechat] ripped from the headlines - a speedy newsstoryforMadhu

[Martin Burns]

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On 13 Aug 2004, at 15:52, Elfur Logadóttir wrote:

> .:|
> .:| Here in India, [the Octavia] sold as a "luxury car".
>
> Luxury car ... Lol
> Skoda has always been the cheep european car on the market
> Sold as poor man's european

errrm or was until they got taken over by the VolkswagenGroup in 1990.
http://www.volkswagen-ag.de/german/docs/4b-History6.html
http://www.volkswagen-ag.de/english/docs/4b-History6.html
Sheesh, Elfur - where have you *been*!

They're now the closest VAG have to a budget brand, but they're built 
to the same quality of any VW or Audi, and VAG have standardised their 
platforms. See that Audi TT or VW new Beetle? It's a Golf. VAG also use 
Škoda as their test brand - the Fabia had the most recent Polo platform 
a year before they introduced it with a VW brand.

Sitting under that Octavia shell is a VW Passat/Audi A4. Not a *luxury* 
car, but a good size and quality one. They've recently (late 2002 in 
the UK) introduced a specifically targeted luxury model: the Superb:
http://www.skoda.co.uk/skoda3g/content/showroom/superb/superb.aspx
http://www.skoda.is/tegundir/superb/

Cheers
Martin
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