Sara Watson, an art student at the University of Lancashire in the UK, has doomed us all. Having devised a way to turn a Skoda Fabia invisible, it’s only a matter of time until the Klingons discover her creation and invade Earth to steal the technology.

Wait, wait, I’m being told it is in fact just [...]

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Official design sketches of Skoda’s upcoming Fabia Scout Hatchback have hit the web thanks to the European trademark office.

Not to be confused with the Fabia Scout Estate - we did a double take ourselves - the Scout Hatchback is expected to debut this year.

As with the Fabia Scout Estate, it’s more about looks than real [...]

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Skoda has passed on the first official images and details on its new Fabia Scout, which is scheduled to be released at the Geneva Motor Show.

Despite sharing the same front-end design cues and blackened A-pillars as the regular Fabia, the Fabia Scout is a different beast. There’s a unique front bumper, an extended rear cabin, taller [...]

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Skoda is one manufacturer that we here at TMR have been keeping close tabs on. Volkswagen-owned Skoda rose from relative obscurity to become one of Europe’s best-known automakers during the 1990s and the re-introduction of the brand to the Australian market in 2007 is now proving a success for the company.

Skoda’s resurgance in the showrooms [...]

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Czech manufacturer Skoda will unleash its freshly-homologated Fabia Super 2000 rally car for the first time at tomorrow’s Rally Monte Carlo, marking the official return of the brand to the world of motorsport.

The Fabia-based rally car is built to the FIA’s S2000 regulations, which will form the basis for all WRC cars from 2010 onwards. [...]

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We have previously introduced the Škoda Fabia Super 2000 which was reported to have begun testing earlier this year. Škoda Auto have just officially announced that testing continues with a recent Austrian test session being conducted by a team that included world rally champion Carlos Sainz.

The test was not Sainz’s first experience of driving a [...]

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So you thought Škoda’s were sensible cars with the most exciting option being bright yellow paintwork… Well, they do have a dark side, witness the matt-black creation pictured above.

Škoda Auto has today begun testing the first prototype of the Škoda Fabia Super 2000. Designed to be used in the Super 2000 production based race [...]

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Hailing from Czechoslovakia, Škoda the brand has not had a presence in the Australian market since approximately 1983 but that is all about to change. A fully owned subsidiary of Volkswagen AG, Škoda are heading to Oz in late 2007, with two models leading the charge, the quirky Roomster and the Octavia.

The history [...]

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The world’s largest motor show is due to begin on the 13th of September in Frankfurt, Germany. If you’re a CarUpdate regular you will be aware that the last couple of months have seen manufacturers announcing various new models and concepts that will be debuting to the public, for the first time ever at the [...]

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Boring is the new black

So which car has provided you with the most satisfying ownership experience? Unbelievably in my opinion it appears that the most satisfying car to own in the UK at least is the Toyota Prius. Do they have a hankering for underwhelming transport…?

Global quality experts J.D Power in association with What Car? [...]

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