Not The New Skoda 110Rapid

[Richard A Thackeray]

At first I thought it was an updated S110R
Ie; this model

Be nice if it was
https://www.hoffmann-novague.com/en/r200

 

[screenman]

One of my customers is A D Dickinson, Tony used to race those cars in modified sports back in the seventies.

 

[dan_bo]

Superb loking car.

 

[Drago]

The original Rapid wasn't a turd, but this lot have turned it into one and given it a good polish.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Superb loking car.

 

[gbb]

The original Rapid wasn't a turd, but this lot have turned it into one and given it a good polish.

The front end looks absolutely ridiculous. I can see what theyve done, tried to retain some lines and features but it just doesnt work.
Dad had an Estelle 120 when having a Skoda was guaranteed to expose you to ridicule but he always said, it was reliable, cheap to buy, cheap to run and would plod along all day on the A1.

 

[TheDoctor]

I once had an Estelle 120. My most vivid memory of it was encountering lift-off oversteer on a wet roundabout.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

THIS is a rapid Skoda!
150BHP, but only 800kg!!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5KhX0lHaaY

 

[wafter]

The front end looks absolutely ridiculous. I can see what theyve done, tried to retain some lines and features but it just doesnt work.
Dad had an Estelle 120 when having a Skoda was guaranteed to expose you to ridicule but he always said, it was reliable, cheap to buy, cheap to run and would plod along all day on the A1.

I thought exactly the same; it's like they've started at the back and done a cracking job right until the end, when they gave up and just decided to nail on the existing front end of the original model they're attempting to trade off the name of...

 

[dan_bo]

That's chuffing awesome.what a noise.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Superb loking car.

Agreed!

 

[screenman]

Possible one of my customers dad in his Skoda,

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5PYmN8TARY

 

[skudupnorth]

When I worked for Skoda in Bolton I used to take the advertising S110R on road trips to shows. This is it parked next to the famous entrance A-1 Lightning back in the late 90’s
Both are now history with the 110 being sold and the Lightning long gone with only the cockpit being preserved

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I have my own photographs of that Lightning (April 2005)
Now sadly scrapped, with only the nose/cockpit remaining

https://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/lightning/survivor.php?id=65

 

[skudupnorth]

I have my own photographs of that Lightning (April 2005)
Now sadly scrapped, with only the nose/cockpit remaining

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https://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/lightning/survivor.php?id=65

Sad end to a rare version of a fantastic fighter. The owner of the cockpit is doing an amazing job restoring it and I have supplied many photos to him to add to the history