Buicks as limos
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GM and Buick are benefiting from the arrangement.
I remember Mulder driving a Mustang Cobra and Scully driving an Oldsmobile Gutless during Season 1 of The X-Files.. Later on they often drove more realistically a Taurus.
They're not Buick, they're Skoda.
This makes complete sense for Czech officials and police to use them as limos because Skoda's HQ is in the Czech Republic (though Skoda is owned by VW).
The cars in the show are Skoda Superb, which is on the VW MQB platform, shared with the VW Passat and others.
Been getting into limos lately. Thinking of starting a limo business.....seems like it has to be a shortage.
It sure looked like the Buick emblem on the trunks of those cars.
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I stared at a car in traffic (in the EU) because it looked like one - but had seen the Skoda emblem before …
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Buick:
Skoda:
Skoda:
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Not sure if that was for me - but meant the car - not the badge.
When I lived in Korea - the Buicks had a Daewoo badge
Excuse the photo of my monitor. It’s really difficult to grab a screen cap of streaming content.
Anyway, the Skoda Superb from the show:
Anyway, the Skoda Superb from the show:
I'm an old-time Tom Clancy fan. Read all the main-line books up until he passed. I didn't like the last few Mark Greaney collaborations before Clancy died, so I never pursued after that.
The Jack Ryan series is alright. I always like the Clancy novels because it was really rooted around spy-craft. That comes across really dry on film, especially for a multi-episode series. You need people to shoot and things to blow up. It's certainly a lot better than the Without Remorse adaptation that Amazon did. That was an obvious springboard for more John Clark content and ended up just being clunky.
I do like that Jack Ryan was filmed on-location in the Czech Republic and there are little things here and there that show the producers were paying attention. The inclusion of Skoda as the vehicle for officials and police (I'm sure BMW and/or Mercedes Benz would have gladly filled those roles with product placement), but also little things like Mike saying, "I'd rather see the bottom of a pilsner."
The Jack Ryan series is alright. I always like the Clancy novels because it was really rooted around spy-craft. That comes across really dry on film, especially for a multi-episode series. You need people to shoot and things to blow up. It's certainly a lot better than the Without Remorse adaptation that Amazon did. That was an obvious springboard for more John Clark content and ended up just being clunky.
I do like that Jack Ryan was filmed on-location in the Czech Republic and there are little things here and there that show the producers were paying attention. The inclusion of Skoda as the vehicle for officials and police (I'm sure BMW and/or Mercedes Benz would have gladly filled those roles with product placement), but also little things like Mike saying, "I'd rather see the bottom of a pilsner."
Some eastern bloc countries notably when it was East Germany routinely had Buicks and Cadillacs imported for high ranking officials even though they badmouthed the usa and the west.
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