High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Skoda Auto more commonly known as Skoda, is an automobile manufacturer based in the Czech Republic. Skoda became a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group in 1991. Its total sales reached 684,226 cars in 2009.The origins of Skoda go back to the early 1890s where, like many long-established car manufacturers, the company started out manufacturing bicycles. It was 1894, and 26-year old Vaclav Klement, who was a bookseller in Mlada Boleslav, in today's Czech Republic, which was then part of Austria-Hungary, was unable to obtain spare parts to repair his German bicycle. Klement returned his bicycle to the manufacturers, Seidel and Naumann, with a letter, in Czech, asking for them to carry out repairs, only to receive a reply, in German, stating: "If you would like an answer to your inquiry, you should try writing in a language we can understand". A disgusted Klement, despite not having technical experience, decided to start a bicycle repair shop, which he and Vaclav Laurin opened in 1895 in Mlada Boleslav. Before going into business partnership with Klement, Laurin was an already established bicycle manufacturer from the nearby town of Turnov.

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