roomster

Click to enlargeJoining the Octavia in Škoda's scout line is the quirky-cool Roomster MPV. Unlike the Octavia Scout, which at least has all-wheel-drive, the Roomster Scout remains a FWD-only vehicle, and the Scout trim is just a butch appearance package. That said, it looks good wearing the ...

We're big fans of the Skoda Roomster and its funky greenhouse that incorporates the kind of quirky styling that we don't often get here in the States. We're also all about the new panel van movement that appears to be catching on here, which is no doubt inspired by the many paneled commercial ...

We wandered into Skoda's booth at the Paris Auto Show expecting to catch our first up-close look at the much-lauded Roomster. What we didn't expect was that we'd spot it in dirigible form, silently gliding 15 feet over our heads. Apparently floated as a trial balloon for a new series of ...

Our man Alberto caught up with Volkswagen Group's Czech outpost, Škoda, which busied itself plying their funky new Roomster. As an econobox in a very literal sense, the Roomster combines a cubist's aesthetics with a frugal footprint in both spatial and ecological terms. The five-door ...

Volkswagen subsidiary Skoda Auto announced Thursday that its 2005 net profits more than doubled to about $329 million, setting a new company record.Unit sales were up 9-percent overall, to 492,111, driven by a 28.4 percent rise in sales of Skoda's Octavia sedan. Sales of its Fabia model fell ...