Skoda offers us a retrospective at its past and the evolution of its cars in a 4-minute video presented by a restoration workshop employee working at the Skoda Museum.
The first vehicle shown is none other than the 1905 Laurin & Klement Voiturette. You had to perform five actions in succession before you could fire it up using the wind-up engine crank. By the early 1920s, this engineering solution went all but extinct thanks to the advent of the electric engine starter. Laurin & Klement cars also featured one, but they still required taking care of multiple procedures first before you could drive.
For Skoda, the true revolution came around in 1964 with the launch of the S 1000/1000 MB model, which started with a simple ignition key. More innovations followed later that are also shown in the video.
The short retrospect ends with a glimpse of the modern Skoda Superb, whose KESSY keyless system enables drivers to keep the key fobs in their pockets and simply hit the button to start the engine.