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Skoda isn't Skoda anymore but basically a rebadged Volkswagen (not that Seat is much different and Audi shares some platforms with VW too...like the A3 for example). I didn't like Skoda in the past because it was a very bad car (well, compared to Dacia, Oltcit and even Trabant or Moskwitch, it was top notch but compared to Western cars...no comment). Of course this has change since VW took over Skoda but while technically, the cars are as good or as bad as the other VW/Audi counterparts, I do not like the design at all,  a design I call "eastern melancholia". 

I am sorry but I saw tons of the older Skoda models (see photos) in my work days behind the iron curtain, so I kind of developed some sort of antipathy against Skoda, Dacia, Lada and all the others... yes

You forgot Polski FIAT, Zastawa and Volga

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