Škoda Auto a.s., often shortened to Škoda, is a Czech automobile manufacturer established in 1925 as the successor to Laurin & Klement and headquartered in Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic. Škoda Works became state owned in 1948. After 1991, it was gradually privatized to the German multinational conglomerate Volkswagen Group, becoming a partial subsidiary in 1994 and a wholly owned subsidiary in 2000.
Headquarters in Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic
Founders Václav Klement (left) and Václav Laurin (1895)
Laurin & Klement Type A (1905)
Škoda 422 (1929)
Mladá Boleslav is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 45,000 inhabitants.
Aerial view of the historic centre
New city hall
Mladá Boleslav Castle
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary