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By: Fido

Fido — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:52:33 +0000

It’s important to distinguish between Škoda car company (based in Mladá Boleslav and the succesor of Laurin&Klement brand, now a part of VW corporation) and Škoda machinery company (based in Plzeň/Pilsen, manufacturer of heavy machinery, turbines, electrical elements, tranformers etc.) These two have nothing in common today, just the name. One of the reasons why Škoda cars had to slightly change their logo in 1990ish because Škoda machinery is older and better established brand.

If Silent talks about Škoda, it’s almost always the heavy machinery company, not the car maker.

By: Silentstalker

Silentstalker — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 20:14:13 +0000

The report was most likely assembled by the BMM (Škoda) itself.

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By: 2goXD

2goXD — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:15:16 +0000

Well for cars there are Škoda series that actually have original VW engines and some other stuff, and its not that people only think they have them.
Also, i dont think that VW’s are overpriced.
Imo. (personal experience) Škoda and VW cars are both amazing, engines are great, durable… models look somewhat similar, but good…. i think we all could say they both make good, flexible, darable (durex) cars.
PS: im not expert on cars so dont reply with some insane details, keep it on normal person level.

By: User_1234

User_1234 — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:31:41 +0000

Are you talking about historic Skoda stuff or current cars?

People there just buy Skoda because they think it is the same stuff as in a VW and they feel VWs are overpriced.
Sure there may be some hardcore fans of the brand but not more than for others.

By: Arno Nühm

Arno Nühm — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:27:08 +0000

Well, the use of this one specific letter in this specific case may be an expression of respect… or correctness, who knows. For all I know, the craftsmanship of and machinery made by Škoda is held in high esteem in Germany, even today.

By: Urie van Kerr

Urie van Kerr — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:00:24 +0000

Oh please don’t be so silly……MAYBE ? it is a sign they had a Typewriter designed to type in German text ……you know they did not have bubble jet printers back then ?

By: Zoran Miljković

Zoran Miljković — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:46:48 +0000

For me it’s much more interesting that Germans used “Š” character for Škoda in their papers. In my poor opinion it’s a sign of a respect for the Škoda brand!!!

By: Hochstepanzerjager

Hochstepanzerjager — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:32:18 +0000

To distinguish between the Soviet one and the American one, I’ve always called the American one the T34 Heavy and the Soviet one the T-34

By: Maluska EU

Maluska EU — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:30:01 +0000

WG isn’t very consistent with tank names anyway. Germans have Hetzer, Maus and Sturer Emil, British got Sherman Firefly and many of these new tanks designated like that. None of these are official names, right? Ok, maybe Maus is for the sake of Führer if you know what I mean, he wanted designations that way…

Well, slash, dash, space or not doesn’t even matter that much. It’s arcade game after all so the most important thing here is distinguish those exact tanks from each other. So I don’t think it’s worthwhile to check all those sources to get those dashes right. Not as long as we have Hetzer in game.