Skoda: Shaping UK rallying
Skoda's top-down love of rallying means its commitments extend far beyond the Europe-wide IRC. Our man David Evans was invited to drive its new Citigo, for which Skoda is rumoured to be planning a one-make series
So, this is Birmingham. Bourneville, to be precise. It's May, it's snowing and I'm sitting in traffic wondering where I'm going. The reason I don't know is that I've been given the keys to a Skoda and told to drive.
So I did.
The Skoda in question is the firm's all-new city car, the Citigo. And it's nice. It's beautifully presented inside and ours is fitted with the sport kit, which gives us some mean-looking black stripes. And, if you bought two of them, you'd have six cylinders. Only having one, we're left with just the three.
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