Skoda Fabia 2000 test drive - 2007 -

Provincial

Cosmopolitanism and globalism do not cancel snobbery. It is worth a successful lady from the regions to relax and say something not in the Ma-Skov manner, you will have to make excuses right there that there is also McDonald's and mobile communications in your small homeland. So Skoda always forced someone to prove something, to reopen from the offensive nickname Volkswagen for the poor and to convince that she is no worse than others. Although this provincial will give any metropolitan head start. But who cares?
WARDROBE
The provincial, who came to the big city, passes several stages. She comes to the capital in high heels and in bright makeup. Nothing bad: elegance is the main distinguishing feature of the province. Here, even garbage goes out to be thrown away with a full parade. Then it turns into a strong middle peasant: functional jeans, comfortable sneakers and minimal makeup simply do not have time to bring a full marathon. Particularly stubborn over the years acquire chic and glossy of the capital's little bit. The successful people adopt the manners that value around the world and, in fact, rule them. Fabia from category number two: nothing in it makes you grin from absurdity, but when you look at it, you will not lose your head. Everything in her is moderate and pretty.
If in the design of Fabia it was possible to get rid of outright provinciality, then the salon still gives it out with the head. This is a gray gut: very practical and intelligent, but how boring! Steering wheel, dashboard, seats upholstery. It even seems that on the speedometer gray letters on a gray background. And the speedometer is outwardly almost indistinguishable from the tachometer. At first I looked closely and calmed down only when I saw km/h.
Cosmetic bag
Disappointment came later. Before the responsible meeting, I decided to correct the makeup, and there was no mirror on the driver's visor! And this is in the age of unisex, when does the mirror for the driver and in the jeep meet?! Well, a cigarette lighter. In fashion for a healthy lifestyle, it is used only for one goal to charge a mobile or navigator. So the wire stretching along the handbrake and the lever of gears is completely useless.
 
And a completely strange thing, a kind of thing in yourself, a stroke key in the manner of a penny knife. I don’t even know how to treat him. On the one hand, functionally: in a folded position, he does not scratch what lies in the bag. On the other hand, a similar way to open the key, rather, to the face of a banderesh with a golden fix, and not a girl in Fabia.
MANNERS
Women rarely, almost never use the hood. Well, perhaps, lonely and at the end, desperate to the open hood, catch the hand of the hand -oned men on a lively line. But we have mastered the trunk in full. And literally too. Therefore, an important point in the ease and elegance of opening and closing it. So with the latter, Zaminochka came out. Despite the loop-disorder, it was not possible to maintain grace and ease of movements when slamming the trunk. As well as save dignity at the gas station. First, I pressed a button near my chair, then ran a car and tried to open the tank. Bobble! It was not possible to pick up the lid, she slammed slammed, and I again rushed to the treasured button. It was not solid somehow that turned out.
ACCESSORIES
There are trifles that, it seems, does not particularly affect driving and still make it less or more pleasant. Personally, in the car, one completely insignificant part of the rug always takes me out. If it is not in size, everything, consider, is spoiled. It would seem that it is easier to choose in size. But no, all the same, it interferes, lifts up and puffs. Special concentration for some reason, irregularities are in place next to the gas pedal. Always waiting for this catch, I sat down in Fabia with an unkind feeling. And lo and lo and about a miracle! Finally I got a car with a rug in size. The second pleasant trifle was delighted at all. It is worth drown out the engine, as a light bulb lights up in the cabin. And when you get out of the car and click on the immobilizer goes out. It seems to be a very simple solution, but how convenient. After all, leaving the car, you should not forget to shove a mobile phone, glasses, lip gloss and business cards, scattered over the cabin at the moment when I looked in a bottomless handbag of a vibrating phone. And in the evening in the dark, this is how inconvenient to do.
CHARACTER
Nevertheless, it is good that appearance is not the main criterion when building relationships. Brad Pitt, of course, is a darling, and Jennifer Aniston is very, very sweet, and they get divorced. And minor disadvantages easily fading into the background in the light of serious advantages. The main thing is that a person is good. For a few days of communication with Fabia, I completely forgot about the inexpressive appearance, and the boring salon, and about the heavy trunk and sincerely attached to it. The feeling of riding is extremely pleasant. Her movements are smooth and frisky at the same time. Such a car for me in the first month after receiving rights. In this difficult period for every woman, I was dragging behind smelly trucks and clumsy buses, afraid to overtake them. My inexperience, multiplied by the twitching and hysteria of the Oka, excluded any possibility of maneuvering. Fabia movements are so natural that the mistress’s mistakes will be completely injected. However, for me, this abuse should be equalized with more sharp brakes.
 
Faby, pits, pits and all other natural properties of Russian roads. Even on the tram tracks, it shook somehow softly. It’s not only nice to ride on Skoda, it’s just to drive it along the high. I would generally install such rudders and gearbox levers to all women's cars. It's nice when the volume is felt in the hand. Although, unlike most small cars, Fabia is definitely called female. A man in it does not look like a foreign object. Fabia may be asexual, but extremely decent. For the sake of such, cities do not besiege, but with such a long and happy life live with such.
 
Text Olga Islamkina
Photo by Sergey V. Minaev
 
 
 
 

Source: Cars