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Skoda Fabia test drive: elegant exotic

Skoda Fabia in the Elegance configuration received such a name not in vain. The spectrum variations of the spectrum in the blue-green gamut is replacing a rich red, and a car highlighted by white causes direct and undisguised associations with Mini Cooper.
They enhance the similarities and black accents on the rear -view mirrors and massive window racks. This is not to say that the car is not to the face. However, trying to find individuality in imitation, the creators lost its last grains. The installed additional sports body kit gives the machine to the machine, creating an aggressive power hidden in a small, in fact, car.
The decoration of the salon also does not depart from the general peculiar daring elegance. Seats equipped with limiters on the principle of sports are finished with black skin with red cloth inserts. However, for my taste, seats of this kind only fetter movements, not allowing to sit with all comfort. The leather winding was also awarded the steering wheel with a lever of speed switching, which makes touching these details incredibly pleasant. But I would like to pay special attention to the ergonomics of the car. Practical Europeans are ready to give up the horse forces and individuality of their brainchild, but never convenient. So, the creators of Elegance thought out almost everything, up to the ventilated glove compartment, in the cold season perfectly coping with the role of the refrigerator. In addition, the car provides for special compartments for almost any thing that might occur to it to be transported in the car, it seems that a whole team worked over the location of each box. So, to the left of the steering wheel, there is a special compartment for documents, next to the rear view mirror is located, and above the mess there is an additional department for papers, which perfectly includes a sheet of A4 format. In addition, you can additionally install boxes under the front seats ... So the machine allows you to put everything on the shelves in the literal sense of the word.
At the same time, you can sit in the cabin with all the convenience of the multi -stage adjustment of the front seats along the length, height and inclination of the pillow, coupled with a spacious interior allow you to perfectly adjust to yourself the space of the machine and a miniature girl, and a high man in height Salon is slightly more familiar, which cannot but without To please a person with growth above average.
Speaking of ergonomics, one cannot fail to mention the heating of the seats - you especially begin to appreciate this function with dank autumn. It only saddened that the automakers did not guess to introduce the remote control of it in order to sit on ready, and not wait for the painful 5 minutes while the seat warms up.
At the same time, the functionality of the machine is not devoid of some oddities: the locking of doors, which is pressed by the button on the front console, is easily removed from any place through double opening the handle on the door about the pluses and minuses of this option for a long time. In this case, the function of blocking the windows applies only to the rear doors to the passenger located in front, complete independence is provided in this matter. Probably, such a distribution was conceived as protection against children, but in the light of the features of the door locks this precaution does not look so reliable. In general, the creators of the car approached, in my opinion, responsibly: even the basic equipment includes two airbags, in addition, the machine is equipped with 3 point safety belts with a preliminary and height adjustment. At the same time, the on-board computer is always ready to remind the driver of the need to fasten the truth, he does it for some reason a few minutes after the start of movement. In addition, the on -board computer allows you to track fuel consumption, the time of the last trip, the temperature overboard and other no less interesting parameters.
It is also worth noting that for the roads near Moscow, not devoid of some bizarre, the suspension of the car seems harsh every pothole can be felt physically. The fuel consumption also looks disappointing, with a fairly calm driving manner a reaching 10l/100 km for such a small machine, such an appetite is unforgivable.
Otherwise, the control of the car was on top. Little brisk fabia Elegance with a four-cylinder gasoline engine 1.6 liters (105 hp), coupled with the electronic steering wheel and electronic ESP stabilization program, feels easily and confident at a speed of 170 km/h (which, judging by the machine, judging by Everything, not the limit), even on not the best road. At the same time, a car with a six -speed Tiptronic automatic gearbox accelerates incredibly rapidly for Moscow traffic jams, sometimes even too much: it is worth it to lead yourself with a car almost less tender, and a sharp breakfast forward is provided.
It will be appropriate to note the excellent work of brakes with an anti -lock system that worthy of working out its reputation. Separately, it is worth emphasizing the indispensability on the low -lit highway of halogen backup headlights with a searchlight lens, which, however, are not included in the basic package of the model.
But the basic equipment includes an electronic immobilizer, which is extremely relevant in the light of daily reports of theft. And finally, I would like to note that our brothers, despite the state borders, still remained close to us in the mentality: the gas tank Skoda Fabia Elegance prudently closes the key apparently, so as not to be at the devastated tank in the morning.
Thus, the Fabia Elegance, created with a claim to its own style, in fact that it turned out to be a common imitation, remains very easy to drive an ergonomic machine for urban roads, not too environmentally friendly and not too economical. You will have to pay for Fabia Elegance, depending on the configuration, from democratic 489 thousand rubles, to at all small 659 thousand lackers for the V-class car. However, you have to pay for elegance.
Author: Anastasia Shablovskaya, observer
 
 

Source: Business car club