Robert Emslie, on November 12th, 2009
Today, Skoda is a wholly-owned subsidiary of VAG, but back in 1969 it was still under the auspices of the Soviet-Bloc planned economy, which had forced nationalized ownership on the company, and had cut it off from the west, stifling technological progress and access to modern parts.
While the Ruskies and Americans traded narrow-eyed scowls across [...]
Mad_Science, on November 11th, 2009
Drew Phillips, eat your heart out
Despite their ability to pull something like 4 million pageviews in a day, actually pay their staff, or even send them all over the world to cover car shows and the like, there’s a reason we’re glad we don’t write for Autoblog. It’s you (plural): dear readers. Jump to [...]
