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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 Net

12/10/2008 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

Total: 11 news articles, 7 photos
First News Article: carpages, 10/10/2008 05:46