Holiday trip throughout Europe - with dummies instead of wife and children
When leaving the Mladá Boleslav plant, the boot of the Škoda Roomster TDI (with a three-cylinder 59kW engine) is going to carry luggage that a four-member family would normally take for a holiday. The luggage will be real, the family, however, will be less “real” – the wife in the passenger seat and the two children in the rear seats are “dummies“ whose weight is equal to that of an average woman and children aged eight to ten.
“Thanks to the dummies, the trip can be technically seen as a “family one”, says Plattner, “except that nobody is going to tell me how to drive or object to doing 1,000 kilometres without a break.“