Skoda speedster breaks Bonneville record
Posted on August 27th, 2011
It does not seem all that long ago when Skoda cars were dismissed as nothing but a joke. No self respecting motorist in the UK could be persuaded to even get a motor insurance quote on one of the Czech cars, never mind actually take money out of their wallet to buy one. How things have changed.
More than just reliable
The subsequent rise and rise of the humble Czech company is well documented and started the day it became part of the Volkswagen group. Today many motorists still can’t be persuaded to buy a car with the Skoda name but for the millions who are now converts; the reliability and sheer value of a Volkswagen engineered car at entry level prices just cannot be ignored. However, the recent record set by a Skoda has nothing to do with boring reliability, the Skoda turbocharged vRS has just become the fastest 2 litre production model in the world.
World record
The Skoda UK team have just returned from the salt flats of Utah celebrating a 227 mph world record in the Bonneville Speed Trials. The Skoda team were confident of achieving the record as they knew they could get past the mind boggling 200 mph mark from previous attempts but on Thursday afternoon despite weather conditions that were not perfect they set about completing the second of two timed runs that are necessary to qualify the record. The five mile course was completed at an average speed of 228 mph which when averaged with the first run gave an outcome of just over 227 mph, beating the previous record by 11mph. Of course no motorist back in the UK will get a low deposit car insurance that allows him to travel at such speeds, but it is just another notch on the belt of Skoda that distances them from the company of a generation ago.
Time for recognition from all corners
Various Skoda models win top car prizes year after year now when it comes to voting by the general public and perhaps this new speedster will even turn the heads of motoring and media journalists.
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