RE: One-owner Skoda Favorit for sale
Discussion
My second car was an M-reg favorit estate - was a great car, mostly reliable, rev'd like mad, huge inside, but I did have a couple of small issues with it.
Firstly it had an immobiliser key you had to put into the dash to turn off the immobiliser - this failed one day a stupid young me thought I'd be able to jump-start it by rolling down a hill. That was unsuccessful but nobody got hurt and I got the immobiliser fixed properly.
The second was issue was alerted to me by a neighbour knocking on the door to ask if I owned a white Skoda, to which I responded yes. He then asked if I'd parked it round the corner, to which I also said yes. He then went on to inform that it was on fire. Which wasn't true because the fire brigade had just put the fire out.
Firstly it had an immobiliser key you had to put into the dash to turn off the immobiliser - this failed one day a stupid young me thought I'd be able to jump-start it by rolling down a hill. That was unsuccessful but nobody got hurt and I got the immobiliser fixed properly.
The second was issue was alerted to me by a neighbour knocking on the door to ask if I owned a white Skoda, to which I responded yes. He then asked if I'd parked it round the corner, to which I also said yes. He then went on to inform that it was on fire. Which wasn't true because the fire brigade had just put the fire out.
My brother had one of these for a while in the late 90s. As I recall, it had the most sparsely populated interior of any car I'd ever seen, the door cards didn't even have door pockets on them, the sun visors were the flimsiest things I'd ever seen, it was generally awful.
But a cockroach. Indestructible.
But a cockroach. Indestructible.
Manic Street Sleeper said:
Decimation is the "killing" of one in ten ... not nine in ten. 
This.The misuse of "decimation/decimated" by so many really winds me up.
From what I remember, decimation was a collective punishment of Roman legionaires when one or them misbehaved, but the culprit couldn't be identified. Every tenth man was executed.
Pretty much the only thing that I still remember from Latin class.
t and plastic.Very nice example, I have a soft spot for the Favorit. I really like the boxy retro styling.
I can't remember the last time I saw one on the road in the UK, though I'm quite often over in Czech (my partner is of that nationality and we have a house there) and there are still quite a few running around over there.
This one in the article is quite a price at £4.5k, for what is a very humble car. But there can't be many at all left in this condition so if you want one then...
Still, I've dabbled with the idea of getting a cheap one for a laugh to muck about with. I think they look fun with wheels and suspension. An engine swap of some description would be entertaining. Random pic from google.
I can't remember the last time I saw one on the road in the UK, though I'm quite often over in Czech (my partner is of that nationality and we have a house there) and there are still quite a few running around over there.
This one in the article is quite a price at £4.5k, for what is a very humble car. But there can't be many at all left in this condition so if you want one then...
Still, I've dabbled with the idea of getting a cheap one for a laugh to muck about with. I think they look fun with wheels and suspension. An engine swap of some description would be entertaining. Random pic from google.
Largechris said:
Manic Street Sleeper said:
Decimation is the "killing" of one in ten ... not nine in ten.
A popular misconception. Both are accepted usage in OED, Collins and MW. The author was referring to 200 left out of 2000 (therefore nine in ten) which is inverse of the original meaning.
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