Car said Skoda jokes were now ‘a thing of the past’ – suggesting it’s now the bottom-ranked French who deserve to take some stick. No joke anymore: Nobody is happier than a Skoda owner.

No more Skoda jokes please: Car manufacturer breaks 200mph barrier . By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 02:46 EDT, 17 August 2011 ...

Skoda means pity in Czech, although it was named after its founder Emil Skoda. Anyone interested in more than the jokes ought to pay a visit to the Skoda Museum in Mlada Boleslav, a small city 30 ...

Volkswagen (VW) executives used to consider Skoda cars so dangerous that they refused to drive them. At a meeting, after VW took control of Skoda Auto, managers sent the Czech car maker's ...

There are few firms that have been the butt of more jokes. So the launch next month of a high-end Skoda, costing almost £40,000, is sure to cause much merriment.

They can laugh at the old Skoda jokes now – but it has been a serious business dispensing with them. The first year Skoda came here (1993) it sold 76 cars. Those who bought one risked relentless ...

THE rust and reliability jokes were in their hundreds, but now the much-maligned car maker Skoda is being lauded as a safety leader on New Zealand roads. Read Today's Paper Tributes.

THE rust and reliability jokes were in their hundreds, but now the much-maligned car maker Skoda is being lauded as a safety leader on New Zealand roads. Deals of the Week.