Skoda

One of the easiest ways to make an ordinary car more interesting is to cut the back off and turn it into a mini pickup truck. That’s exactly what a team of trainees working for Czech automaker ŠKODA did for a recent project.

Skoda has unveiled their new Fabia F5 rally car in Germany in advance of the 2014 Essen Motor Show. The not-subtle-in-any-way racer is powered by a 1.6-liter four-cylinder turbocharged engine with a five-speed sequential gearbox. The car will see its first rally action in the World Rally Championship series next year.

In 1950, Skoda built three 966 Supersport race cars and only one of these open-top racers remains in existence. This special racing edition of the Skoda Supersport was built with an aluminum body, with headlights and fenders removed for the racing circuit and debuted in May, 1950.

The Trotina Rally Team and driver Petr Šimurda took their 1986 Skoda 130 LR rally car to a crowded parking structure in Czechoslovakia to show off what they can do. Drifting around parked cars and through repair stall, Šimurda navigates the crowded lot with ease.

Škoda let 16 young apprentices in their AUTO Vocational School take a turn at reworking the Škoda Citigo with the resulting CitiJet design concept being revealed at Wörthersee in Austria. The team was given free reign in creating the concept car and speaks about what the process was like and the challenges of creating a design concept as a team in this video.

Auto enthusiasts and performance car fans head to Austria each May to attend Wörthersee, and in 2014 Škoda will be bringing an aggressive sport compact SUV to the show, the Yeti Xtreme Concept. The concept car shows off bold styling both inside and out, with a shocking matte-grey paint and contrasting yellow-green roof and wheel inserts.