Time warp Skoda

[Willy Nilly]

TheHeretic said:

Is there some sort of mathematical formula that will tell us at precisely at what point cars that we used to consider to be ahit, we suddenly think of as cool?

I got the st ripped out of me mercilessly at school because my parents had them then when I bought my own the piss taking continued. My mum was a nurse and her colleagues gave her st about it, then the Skoda kept turning up for work when other faltered in poor weather or just faultered and the abuse/banter died down.

Mine was my first car. The cowman where I worked was a miserable cock but liked his car. He had a D plate R5 GT Turbo. Obviously I can't do his voice on the computer but he kept saying how it was a "proper fast car" through his hair lip. Oh how I laughed when the turbo failed. The piss taking stopped over night . I'm no mathematician, but the algorithm would need to factor in the number of times the Estelle turned up in the face of adversity.

On the subject of handling. I still think mine (D. reg 120LSE) had steering as good as anything I've driven since and I still prefer how it handled compared to a front wheel drive. You have not lived until you have sampled a Skoda Estelle in a cross wind

[cymtriks]

I had two Rapids.

Crude but easy to work on, tough characterful and fun.

They weren't about straight line speed but more about getting each bit of a drive right. You also had to "get" the idea of a rear engine. Some people just can't get their head round it and think it must be wrong because it's not like their car. But to anyone who isn't in the know just think when did you last hear someone who owned a rear engined car (911, Alpine, Smart, Beetle or Beach Buggy) describe their car as dull?

[crocodile tears]

Skodasupercar said:

Oh, well, if I must.

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