Talk:Škoda Auto
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[edit] Accuracy
Just how many car manufacturers did start out manufacturing bicycles. Needs citation.
[edit] Vandalism
1st paragraph seems to have been vandalised.
[edit] Guns?
any ideas on it's manufacturing of munitions activities before WWII? I've heard that the czech rep. was a huge munition mftcr...looking for confirmation from some who may know/heard.
Well the Skoda guns were pretty popular, I would assume they were making quite a bit of munitions there as well. Peter Chamberlain
AFAIK, ?koda Octavia was developed on the common basis with VW Golf IV, Audi A3 and probably some Seat and not on the larger basis of VW Passat, Audi A4 etc. --Peterlin 09:37, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Maybe the Octavia name is used for different models in different places. In the UK, an Octavia is a large family saloon car. I haven't found any exact information on the chassis but the exterior dimensions of 4,507 mm x 1,920 mm are close to the VW Passat at 4676 mm x 1740 mm. The Mk.4 VW Golf shares a platform with SEAT León, Škoda Fabia and Audi TT amongst others. See the Octavia and Fabia sections of Škoda UK website for more details. akaDruid 12:59, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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- In fact Octavia is based on the same chassis than Golf. For more details see Octavia and Golf. As you can see the wheel base is identical (2578 mm) in both (Radstand in Golf's technical data) and wheel track is almost identical too (Spurweite, vorn for front and hinten for rear). For reference, here is the technical data for Passat (wheel base 2709 mm). --84.250.189.193 19:00, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hierarchy
The following was deleted without comment. Why?<br. The Škoda brand is located at the bottom of the hierarchy of VAG brands: Audi, Volkswagen, SEAT, Škoda.22
- It was correct to delete the statement because it's meaningless. In what respect is it bottom of the hierarchy? Price, speed, power, quality? No-one knows!
- As an aside, it would be nice if you were not anonymous, please sign with four tildes(that's the wavy sign, it's 'upper case Hash' on my keyboard.
- Adrian Pingstone 15:28, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Skoda Works
I think Skoda Works should have a separate article. -- Sandius 20:07, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- It does (I took the liberty of wikilinking your comment). But the person who moved it didn't have enough sense to insert a link here. Gene Nygaard
Deleted word 'worthless' in description of Ŝkoda. Alexisr 16:26, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] References
In response to Leflyman's request for "citations" I have added three references to the article. This desire for references seems to have been creeping into Wikipedia lately. Do we really need to have every common sense item of knowledge referenced?. Bob BScar23625 13:05, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pronunciation
The pronunciation will not work. 67.188.172.165 04:34, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Interesting...
So, a car company was started because Germans can't read Czech. The world is crazy, I tell you.
[edit] Metalex or MTX?
The Melkus PT 73 Spyder was designd with inpiration from something called Škoda Metalex. I managed to find very few pictures[1][2] and it seems it has MTX markings (but it says Metalex in te rear). Anybody have more info on it? // Liftarn
