The popular student concepts of Škoda from Mladá Boleslav have another addition. This time it is a car in which you can work and relax. We’ve explored what you can do with the Roadiaq.
We are lucky, we arrive at the shores of Proboštské jezer just at the moment when the whole performance of Roadiaq is just getting ready. We can therefore confirm that the Roadiaq brings all the tent extensions that grow around the car in a few minutes to the camping site by its own power: a kitchen with a stove and a refrigerator, a mobile shower, solar panels that power electrical appliances. And there is also a bicycle, which, unlike the other equipment, is suspended on a carrier behind the car.
This time, the concept of the pupils of the Škoda Auto Secondary Vocational School in Mladá Boleslav is different from the previous eight. After a series of more or less naughty roadsters, two pick-ups and a racing special, a car was created in which you can comfortably spend the whole summer.
While in its rear part we find a couch with a television, in the front there is an office with a computer and access to the car company’s corporate network. Pupils work on the concept throughout the school year, the whole team is created before the holidays.
“The work is mainly intended for third-year students, but anyone who shows a real interest can participate,” says master of vocational training Aleš Zíta. The proof of his words is Agáta Fraňková – she has only been attending the school for the second year, but it was she who drew the sketch of the winning design. The board of directors of the car company has the final say on what kind of car will be built.
This year too, many ideas came together from among the students. For example, a Superb converted into a limousine, two meters longer than the serial version. “Ultimately, it is important that all participants accept the winning proposal as their own. Not everyone can do it, some take the loss hard,” admits Aleš Zíta. But work on the car is not mandatory.
The biggest challenge in converting the electric Enyaq into a Roadiaq camper was the fifth door. “It was not easy to fit them on the back of the car so that everything fits and works,” admits Filip Mlčousek, co-author of the concept. But not everything can be made by the students of the school themselves. For example, the laminate superstructure on the roof was supplied by the company Cargo Design Opava, for the carpentry work in the interior they chose the company KPS.
While legends are told about the approval processes of new production models, here everything goes smoothly and with a smile. “They are nice to us,” says Agáta Fraňková about the meeting with the board members, to whom the car company has already offered an internship at the development center in Česana.
An audit will take place at the beginning of the project, but otherwise the students have completely free hands when creating. They say they don’t even talk about money much, which isn’t quite common in car companies either.
After all, not even three rain showers in one hour at the end of June are common. Only meteorologists know how many more Roadiaq authors will have to endure on the shore of the lake. They gradually present their project to the editors here for two whole days, from morning until late in the afternoon. Czech on Tuesday, and foreign journalists on Wednesday.
2023-07-01 04:32:38
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