Skoda has certainly come a long way since the pre-Volkswagen days. It’s now the third best-selling automaker in Europe, holding a 6.3 percent share through October. It’s safe to say the company is in the best shape of its 100-year history, not counting the years of the preceding Laurin & Klement. But Skoda is not neglecting the cars built in communist Czechoslovakia before VW took control in the early 1990s.
