original title: WTT Championship: Ma Long beats Zhuang Zhiyuan and Wang Yidi reverses Polkanova Xinhua News Agency, Frankfurt, October 31 (Reporter Liu Yang) October 31 was the last match day of the first round of the 2023 World Table Tennis League (WTT) Frankfurt Championship. Olympic champion Ma Long defeated Chinese Taipei veteran Zhuang Zhiyuan 3:1; … Read more
The traditional auto-moto exchange Retro Garage, which has been associated with live vintage auctions for a few years, is usually supplemented with a raffle, the main prize of which used to be a cheaper Jawa 50 Pionýr or Babetta moped. Photo: Retro Garage The main prizes in the Retro Garage raffle are more attractive every … Read more
The BBC documentary veteran returns with a new series “Human Planet” on Netflix this time. Sequences from the first episode have already appeared on social networks, and so we can hear the soft and friendly voice of the legendary Attenborough telling us what two people are doing trying to pass their products through the self-service … Read more
The Mercedes-Benz W154 of the famous driver Rudolf Caracciola is the only example in the world that has never been renovated. It still has tires from the last race before the Second World War and can be seen in the National Technical Museum in Prague. The interwar years were one of the craziest eras in … Read more
Instead of Skodas, it offers classic cars from other brands, especially those from the former Eastern Bloc – Moskvič, Trabant, Wartburg, Tatra or Praga and others. Socialist veterans are complemented by, for example, Volkswagen or Citroën. The wall calendar is in A2 format, i.e. 610 by 480 millimeters in size, and contains a total of … Read more
John Clay Wolfe stumbled right into a collection of classic cars. He got into a barn in Alabama, USA, which hid 23 vehicles, including rare cars with minimal mileage. He estimates the price of the collection at around one million dollars, i.e. about 23 million crowns. At the same time, Wolfe describes the place where … Read more
The new ŠKODAteam wall calendar went on sale a few days ago, which combines the beauty of smiling models and classic Škoda cars. The ŠKODAteam traditionally prepares a calendar every year, and in addition to its content, the nice thing about it is that by purchasing it you contribute to the organization of events that … Read more
How to reduce fuel consumption? A great example is the old Opel P1, which was completely redesigned for the purpose of record consumption. How did they achieve such low fuel consumption 50 years ago? The modifications were extreme and can still inspire today. In today’s world, car efficiency is all about reducing emissions and protecting … Read more
In the middle of 1988, the Czech motoring community was alive with the arrival of Favorit. Sinfully expensive and factory-tuned, but still modern. It was a twenty-year leap forward for Škoda. In East Germany the mood was more somber. The new four-stroke engine was built into a twenty-year-old body on a frame chassis. The troubled … Read more
We have selected 5 records that just cannot be broken by anyone. Speed records, longest range on one tank, most kilometers driven and oldest vehicle in operation. The motoring world has always called for breaking records, whether it was speed, consumption, reliability or innovation. Some of the records from our selection have not changed holders … Read more