Building society The Nottingham has joined GAC and Skoda as a major sponsor of Team Raleigh-GAC.
It is also empowering the high-end navigation systems of VW group brands Volkswagen and Skoda.
Plzen, Czechoslovakia, 1956: This was the electronic assembly line at the Skoda factory.
The penultimate of those was in Australia in 2005, when he finished third in an unfancied Skoda.
The 21-year-old man was hit by a black Skoda Octavia at about 23:15 GMT on Fabian Way on Saturday.
The study also found that Ford Escort drivers were considered pretty unsexy, as were Austin Allegro and Skoda drivers.
The challenge is to find ways to keep Audi buyers paying nearly double the price of a Skoda Octavia.
These can usually be activated only if the car is moving below a particular speed (in the Skoda's case, 18mph).
It is thought the man may have spoken to a taxi driver in a white Skoda-style car shortly before the incident.
Ford's Mikko Hirvonen is in fourth with Skoda's Francois Duval just behind.
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Ellington, who scored twice for North End's reserves on Wednesday, returns to England after a year-long loan spell on with Greek side Skoda Xanthi.
Most tellingly, where Czech companies have received a hefty capital injection, as has Skoda Auto (now a subsidiary of Volkswagen), they have done well.
Phase I will be capacitized for 300, 000 vehicles, consisting of the Santana NF and Skoda models, and Phase II will create capacity for another 300, 000 cars.
Peter Wells, of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research in Cardiff, reckons that Skoda should recapture its pre-war reputation, when it was known for its engineering.
The white Skoda car involved in the incident was abandoned in Birrell Road, Milngavie and the suspect made off on foot in the direction of Clober golf course.
Besides VW itself, there is Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley, Bugatti, Ducati, SEAT, Skoda, MAN, Scania and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, most of which are multibillion-dollar businesses in their own right.
Careal is also the holding company for AMAG, which sells Volkswagen, Seat, Skoda and Audi vehicles, and also has real estate interests such as the Bellerive hotel in Lausanne.
The Skoda Octavia is built from the same basic parts as the more expensive VW Golf, but finish, add-ons and marketing have made both models successful in their respective slots.
After walking off with the iPod, the man got into the passenger side of a grey Skoda car, that may have been displaying black and white taxi plates, which then drove off.
The benefits are mutual: a big reason's for Audi's high profitability is its ability to share technology and platforms with the bigger Volkswagen group, whose brands range from Porsche to Bentley to Skoda.
It offers the last chance for a big car maker to gain a Central European brand on the cheap, now that Volkswagen owns Skoda of the Czech Republic and Renault has Dacia of Romania.
His route ran close to those neighbours' borders, with brief hops across, for instance to meet the Polish president and prime minister, and to visit a Skoda car factory, in the Czech republic but owned by Volkswagen.
He finished eighth in the title race and was preparing for the 2011 season when taking part in the Ronde de Andorra rally in Italy in a private capacity he lost control of his Skoda Fabia, crashing into a guard rail.
And although total industrial production went up by a more modest 5%, it exploded in industries with heavy foreign investment: transport production went up by 45%, for example, fuelled by the half-million cars built by Volkswagen-owned Skoda (no relation of Skoda Plzen).
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