Škoda vehicles are among the most considerate automobiles round, that includes quality-of-life enhancements that make possession a pleasure. The Czech automaker’s latest fashions, such because the Škoda Fabia, aren’t the one ones that featured these enhancements. Its vans — admittedly, car-based — additionally as soon as got here with considerate design that places some fashionable vehicles and vans to disgrace. Again in 1995, Škoda debuted the Felicia Enjoyable coupe-ute, which might rapidly remodel from a tiny two-seater truck to a four-seater.

Almost thirty years in the past, Škoda had the design chops to make a truck that might carry each folks and cargo adeptly — albeit at completely different instances. Right here was a truck that knew the best way to have enjoyable with out resorting to huge measurement or outrageous efficiency, relying as a substitute on progressive design and a intelligent “celebration trick.”

Because the carmaker explains, the Felicia Enjoyable had a sliding rear wall actuated by a lever that might enable it to push out into the mattress and make use of a few jumper seats:

Most likely the FELICIA Enjoyable’s greatest shock was within the inside: The progressive concept of a folding and sliding rear wall and two emergency seats had discovered its manner right into a series-production car and was excess of only a futuristic present automobile characteristic. The refined mechanics, recognized throughout the firm because the ‘celebration trick’, had been integrated into the usual tools of the FELICIA Enjoyable. When the emergency seats had been unfolded, the depth of the loading space, which was coated with spruce wooden, decreased from 1,370 to 850 millimetres [54 to 33 inches.]

Oh, and did you catch that in regards to the mattress being coated in spruce wooden? The Felicia Enjoyable simply can’t assist however kick ass. And for the reason that Felicia Enjoyable was based mostly on the Škoda Felicia platform, it was a sensible car with a size of 167 inches, width of 66 inches, top of 58 inches and wheelbase of 96 inches.

The Felicia Enjoyable might be optioned with any of those three engines: a 1.9-liter diesel four-cylinder making 64 hp; a 1.3-liter fuel four-cylinder making 68 hp; and a “sporty” 1.6-liter fuel four-cylinder making 75 hp, which had a high velocity of 101 miles per hour. These fashions with a 1.6-liter engine had a mixed gas effectivity of 32 mpg, and weighed a low 2,300 kilos. The Škoda Felicia Enjoyable began at about $14,000, or about $28,000 in in the present day’s cash.

Look, the Felicia Enjoyable would get a seal of approval from me simply by advantage of it being a coupe-ute. While you add in that unimaginable yellow paint, inexperienced accents, yellow wheels, paint-matched rear spoiler and entrance bumper with built-in bull bar, you might have a winner. And but, the Felicia Enjoyable retains kicking ass with the progressive cabin design.

The Škoda Felicia Enjoyable stays one of many rarest variants of the Felicia round. Škoda made solely 4,016 fashions between 1995 and 2000. Examine that to the greater than 1.4 million Felicia fashions made, total. Even the builders appear to be they’re having a blast throughout the meeting of the Felicia Enjoyable. For these 5 years main as much as the brand new millennium, there was as soon as a wonderful two-door, car-based truck that might carry bikes, surfboards, snowboards and both two or 4 folks, relying on its proprietor’s wants. And it was yellow.