Skoda Fabia 2000 test drive - 2007 -

Troika? The greyhound is running!

Skoda Fabia this year began to look a little fresh. The composition of the elixir of youth included new bumpers and optics, a slightly modified grille of the radiator (find at least any differences), caps and wheels of new design is outside.


Even how it runs! Running and buzzing. But it does not grumble. It is even surprising that under the hood of the updated Skoda Fabia there are only three cylinders. But what! Each will be four hundred grams. And that liter and a glass to him. It is the most for a small machine.
 
And at first, only rolling Fabia out of the gates of the dealer center, my colleague and I began to grumble: they say, the machine was going far from a fountainly. With a 1.6-liter engine engine. It seems to be earned. What are one and six? There was no such motor on Fabia, spinning! Then what kind of motor is on our car, huh? We look: 1.2, 12V twelve -voltage, or what? This is some nonsense! Well, definitely earned! Three cylinders, four valves per cylinder, that is, according to the valve per 100 grams, that is, milliliters
Three pots

 

So. All. I'm starting an article from here. Skoda Fabia this year began to look a little fresh. The composition of the elixir of youth included new bumpers and optics, a slightly modified grille of the radiator (find at least any differences), caps and wheels of new design is outside. And some other dashboard, new materials of the upholstery of the salon and a steering wheel from Octavia II is inside. Xenon, parking sensors and navigation to taste. Drink in one gulp, with pleasure and without stopping, until you feel the aftertaste.
 
It only first seems that Fabia is fresh. It seems strongly and persistently, since this is practically true: in the not too expensive configuration, the car will not make you fight in an enthusiastic hysteria about the ultramoded and megarensis bamber. However, the charm of Fabia is not in the bells and whistles, but in simplicity is almost a saint.
 
Skoda does not strain, but, on the contrary, tries to relax in every possible way. And create a feeling for their inhabitants, if not all -consuming comfort, then at least convenience. And she succeeds. She knows where and what should be, how to turn on and how to work. This is not even a means of transportation, but as if some of you are so organic and finished. Except, perhaps, the front seats: the profile of the back is such that the chair seems to try to shove the driver and his neighbor closer to the central panel. But there are no adjustments to the lumbar backup!
 
This is perhaps the main and almost the only claim to ease of use. I know from my experience that you can adapt to any seat, even the most ridiculous. Moreover, in a fairly short time, yeah. And in Fabia no longer needs to be adapted. Everything is already adapted to the maximum. A very humanly conceived machine: impeccable ergonomics, high -class decoration materials and three cylinders what you need!

  

Subjectively, acceleration is perceived as much more alive than could be expected from a car with similar characteristics. At least, there is no feeling that the machine accelerates only with an accelerator pedal completely recessed into the floor. Perhaps if I were in the car alone, Fabia would have gone even more freak. But even with three very well -fed male individuals on board, she did not even think to grunt plaintively. We go calmly, do not show off, pray a compact gray mouse between the dirty elephants-furs, which still can not leave Peter's roads. The Skoda suspension, of course, is not the most comfortable, but for small cars this is rather a rule than an exception. But the rolls are small, and the reactions to the steering wheel are lightning fast.
 
Skoda Fabia is the right car. Like any other Skoda or there is a Volkswagen there. But here the correctness does not get bored, but rather starts! Why? Yes, because Fabia is small and caring. Easy to rise, or something. Human -loving. Not a thing in yourself, but a thing for everyone.

 

P.S. By the way, in addition to the 1.2 HTP engine with four valves per cylinder, there is a less powerful (and more affordable) modification of the same motor with three valves per cylinder. Nine valves sounds even more non -standard! Okay, at least not volt
 

Autography
Skoda Fabia Sedan
Predecessor
Not
Platform
Volkswagen Polo v
Premiere
september 1999
Modernization
summer 2004
Body
hatchback, sedan, station wagon
Engines
1.2-2.0 l (54-130 l.
Production
Czech
Expected replacement
2006
 

The car was provided by Sigma Service, the official dealer of Skoda Auto
During the test, the car is insured by Rosno.
 
Text: Kirill Brevdo
Photo: Roman Ostanin
 
   
 
 
 
     
 
 

Source: Wheel magazine [No. 87/2005]