Driven by Design - Values. Visions. Damage

GRADA Publishing
Hardcover, format 21 × 25 cm, 160 pages

At the end of November 2022, the Prague-based Grada Publishing published a new book, "The Legendary Škoda 105/120 and its Siblings", authored by Motor Journal's regular collaborator Jan Tuček. The publication is dedicated to the last generation of Škoda cars with a rear engine, the Š 105/120/130 model series, the production of which exceeded two million cars between 1976 and 1990. It recalls the four-door sedans and the two-door coupes Garde and Rapid, their development, production and gradual modernization. There is a detailed overview of the production of these cars in individual years. The book also maps a diverse range of now almost forgotten variants and prototypes of various concepts built on the basis of the Š 742 and Š 743 cars in Mladá Boleslav, Kvasiny and Bratislava. Separate chapters are devoted to the conversions of Rapid coupés into convertibles in Germany, Great Britain, Denmark, Canada and in the Czech Republic, as well as to the sports use of cars of this series. 352 illustrations (photographs, brochures, drawings and transparent drawings), of which 226 are in color