Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
Prestigious is often a point of view.
VW has really done very little in WRC aside from Ericssons FIA Cup aka 2wd World Champignonskit way back in ä86.
Skoda fielded small but amazing little cars for decades under the great Pavel Janeba.
In my book in WRC context, Skoda has a proud history----which only went sideways when the Germans invaded Bohemia and took over the "management' placing some circuit race "genius" in charge..
Years more participation than VW, and since I am typically impressed by those who "do the most-est with the least-est" Skoda stands even higher..
The biggest cheers every stage I watched at Monte Carlo WRC in 1993 was for Pavel Sibera and Emil Triner in their 1.3 Skoda Favorits (If you ever saw some of the Youtube vids of Jean Ragnotti---those 2 guys were driving INSPIRED, great!)