insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 13 - March 2016 | Page 76

MOTORS

ŠKODA OCTAVIA SCOUT
I AM OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER IN THE 80S WHEN SKODAS FIRST APPEARED ON THE
RADAR IN THE UK. THEY WERE RECEIVED, RATHER UNFAIRLY I FEEL, WITH A GREAT DEAL
OF SCORN AND DERISION, BECAUSE THEY WERE CHEAP. AND IN ENGLAND WE WERE IN
A TIME WHERE PEOPLE WANTED TO DRIVE AROUND IN PORSCHES AND RANGE ROVERS.
CARS WERE VERY MUCH A STATUS SYMBOL