The Škoda Popular is a car from Škoda Auto, built from 1934 to 1946, when streamlining and independent suspension were arriving together. Under the bonnet: four-cylinder SV or OHV.
The story
The Škoda Popular is a small family car that was made in Czechoslovakia by Škoda from 1933 to 1946. It was the company's most affordable car at the time.
What is underneath
Power comes from four-cylinder SV or OHV; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Škoda 422; its successor was the Škoda 1101; assembly was at Mladá Boleslav, Czechoslovakia. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Chevrolet Suburban, the Bugatti Type 57, the Chrysler Airflow — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Škoda Auto catalogue sit the HZS-1 and the Trekka.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Škoda Popular has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.