The Skoda Works were one of the largest industrial groups in Europe up until WWII manufacturing everything from armaments - tanks, artillery, battleship guns and armour - to trains, machine tools, steam turbines, electrical transformers, and with the purchase and incorporation of Laurin & Klement cars, amongst other things. I've been driving a borrowed new-ish Skoda Fabia the last couple of days and it's a pretty nice car which got me thinking how Skoda might have faired if Czechoslovakia, or at least the western Czech Republic half, had, for one reason or another, been a part of the West during the Cold War instead of the Warsaw Pact. What sort of path do people think they might have taken?