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Thats' OK, as a Skoda driver by choice we can tell you're not really interested in cars. ![Smiley :)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xsmiley.gif.pagespeed.ic.R8GFI-pF6f.png)
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Hah hah, on this occasion you couldn't be more wrong if you tried, my car was chosen for many reasons and cost was definitely not one of them. My car had to be many things to me on business and personal levels and even today it does not disappoint, for instance it has as standard foot rests for the rear passengers, it is larger in the rear than many limousines. You really should check out today's Skodas, there are no longer the joke of car industry like they used to be. ![Smiley :)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xsmiley.gif.pagespeed.ic.R8GFI-pF6f.png)
To quote Mandy Rice-Davies: "Well, 'e would say that. Wouldn't 'e!".
To be a Skoda driver you have to be prepared to be the butt of many a joke. Still, at least you've still got Lada and Trabant drivers to take the mickey of. ![Smiley :)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xsmiley.gif.pagespeed.ic.R8GFI-pF6f.png)
Nope, you have it all wrong, that's why my car was worth more at the end of its 3-year lease, despite being much less to lease each month then a smaller, and less well-equipped Audi A4, and also why as the car turns 9 years old, there are still 91% of the Skoda Superb Laurin & Klements on the road today compared with just 69% of the A4's.
Throughout the Superb's life, it has won award after award, year in year out, it continues to impress those who drive them and it also as a mater of fact won the CarWow best large car plug-in hybrid in 2021. There are 2 kinds of people, those who know and those that don't, and it's that small minority who don't, that continue in their denial that Skoda's are no longer the joke of the car industry.
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