| Frugal Skoda Superb on sale 13/10/2008 21:37. A more fuel-efficient version of the new Skoda saloon, the Superb
GreenLine, has gone on sale today. // New Car Net12/10/2008 07:04. Stationary at some traffic lights on the outskirts of Northampton,
the truck driver wound down his window and gesticulated in an
apparently friendly manner for me to do the same. “Speak
English?” he asked, clearly having seen the German plates on
the Skoda Superb I was driving. “Good. That is the ugliest
car I’ve ever seen.” With that the lights turned green
and he pulled away, considerately dumping diesel fumes through my
open window. And while my tormentor had clearly had a very sheltered upbringing,
having obviously never seen a Fiat Multipla or a SsangYong Rodius,
he may have had a point. In an era when even family holdalls, from
the new Vauxhall Insignia to the Citroën C5, have become
stylish, the Superb looks like a car designed by three different
committees, one each... // Times Online
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