Imagine waiting three years and dishing out a month’s salary in bribes to buy a 42-horsepower car that rarely starts in cold weather. That was life for nearly 500,000 citizens in Communist ...

I used to own one of these. I ought to think of it as some sort of badge of shame, as the rear-engined series of Skodas made from 1964 to 1992, ending with the Estelle (a few of which can still be ...

For those of you who grew up in communist countries like I did, the Skoda 1000 MB is a familiar car. Now, at its 50th anniversary, the compact model is one of Skoda’s most iconic models, as it was the ...

The Škoda 1000 MB is now 50 years old. The compact car made its debut on March 21, as the successor to the former Škoda Octavia. As the first Škoda with rear wheel drive, a rear engine and unibody ...