The Skoda Fabia – A Combination of Great Practicality and Value

December 28, 2016

Cost-Effective and Roomy Skoda Fabia

The Skoda Fabia is a well proven supermini contender that’s perhaps not the best option for thrill-seekers but is a superb car for long-term satisfaction. It’s very roomy, handles tidily, has some strong engines and the volume trim lines are very well stocked with kit.

Its Rivals

While the styling looks present day it's still really moderate, however that is the thing that sensible Skoda clients need. With its blend of VW gathering quality and viable great esteem, the Fabia contends well with an expansive scope of adversaries from the spending end of the market, for example, the Hyundai i20 and Kia Rio, also top-of-the-range Dacia Sandero variants, and the Suzuki Swift. The Fabia additionally offers a solid contrasting option to more functional superminis like the Honda Jazz, Nissan Note and Toyota Yaris. The Volkswagen Polo is likewise in the Fabia's terminating line, in spite of the fact that VW endeavors to keep up a sensible hole between the opponent brands, as far as premium feel and cost. There's a solid family relationship under the skin between the Polo and Fabia, as an upgraded rendition of the Volkswagen Group's Polo PQ25 stage gives the premise to the Fabia's building. The new engineering implies the most recent auto is altogether roomier than its forerunner, but at the same time its lighter and furnished with additional a la mode electronic frameworks.

Engines

The Volkswagen group gives the engines to the Fabia as well, as you'd expect, and the range centers on the petrol choices. These incorporate a 1.0-litre three-cylinder typically suctioned unit from the Volkswagen Up (and Skoda Citigo), which accompanies 59bhp or 73bhp, however we truly like the four-cylinder 1.2-litre TSI engine, offered with 88bhp or 108bhp. There's just a single diesel engine – a 1.4-litre TDI three-cylinder – yet you can have it with 88bhp or 103bhp. Cheerfully, Skoda keeps the trim line-up clear too: it's S, SE and SE L. A later expansion is the lively look Monte Carlo display, reintroduced here after its ubiquity on the old variant of the Fabia. There is, in any case, no hot vRS rendition – and, as things stand, no arrangements to reintroduce one, either.

Brilliant Drive

Non-turbo entry level engines can battle however the volume TSI petrol is solid and successful. The most recent Skoda Fabia is an extremely achieved auto to drive. It profits by a suspension that is more exceedingly created than its kin, the Volkswagen Polo and SEAT Ibiza, putting the additional size and refinement of its MQB component to great utilize. The 1.0 engines tip the scales at under a ton, the sweet spot of the range is really the 1,034kg 1.2 TSI 90, yet do know the 1.4 TDI diesel pushes kerbweight up to more than 1,100kg, to a great extent over the front pivot: these variants in this way have somewhat less artfulness. At speed, the Fabia is amazingly formed, again with the vibe of a bigger auto than it is. 

This is the reason you might need to pick one of the all the more effective engines to make it a greater amount of an all-rounder: the 1.0-litre units battle when sppedsrise. Our tip is to thus choose the 1.2-litre TSI turbo, in either 88bhp or 108bhp guise. The figures say it all: the 1.2 TSI 90 produces 160Nm of torque, instead of the 1.0 MPI 75’s 95Nm – and does so from 1,400-3,500rpm instead of a peaky 3,000-4,300rpm. The 1.0-litre petrol engines that work so well in the Up and Citigo do battle a little in the bigger Fabia. The five-door supermini isn't a lot of a stage up in weight, which helps a bit, yet there's still no getting away from the base auto's resigned 15.7-second to 62mph pace. 

The 73bhp variant doesn't really offer any more torque it is possible that; it cuts a moment from the 0-62mph time absolutely through top-end control. In this present reality, it won't feel much speedier and you'll need to work both engines hard. Our tip is to in this way pick the 1.2-litre TSI turbo, in either 88bhp or 108bhp pretense. The figures say it all: the 1.2 TSI 90 produces 160Nm of torque, rather than the 1.0 MPI 75's 95Nm – and does as such from 1,400-3,500rpm rather than a peaky 3,000-4,300rpm. While the MPI engines are throbby and characterful, the ultra-refined nature of the 1.2 TSI is significantly more engaging. 

It blurs away from plain sight and regularly, in light of the fact that it requests so few revs around town, is as refined as a much bigger auto. The TSI 110 may demonstrate better on a motorway however – it has a six-speed gearbox to cut revs, as opposed to the TSI 90's five-speed unit. Our tip is to thus choose the 1.2-litre TSI turbo, in either 88bhp or 108bhp guise. The figures say it all: the 1.2 TSI 90 produces 160Nm of torque, instead of the 1.0 MPI 75’s 95Nm – and does so from 1,400-3,500rpm instead of a peaky 3,000-4,300rpm.