New 1.0l TSI for Fabia

[skoda1982]

FABIA 1.0 TSI with dynamic three-cylinder engine

3/1/2017

Less cylinder capacity, more power. In the FABIA and FABIA COMBI, a 1.0 TSI engine with three cylinders and four valves is replacing the 1.2-litre engine with four cylinders that has been used to date.

The new engine offers more power. The power output of the ŠKODA FABIA 1.0 TSI is 70 kW (95 PS), while the output of the more powerful version is at 81 kW (110 PS) but offers an improved torque of 200 Nm (previously 175 Nm). Downsizing offers another advantage: the engines’ fuel consumption has been reduced by up to six per cent. One reason for this is the three-cylinder’s engine concept with a reduced weight of the free inertial forces and a more efficient oil pump. The revised ŠKODA FABIA and ŠKODA FABIA COMBI will be introduced to the public for the first time at the Geneva International Motor Show (7-19 March 2017). 

Injection pressure reduces consumption by up to 6 percent
Downsizing, lightweight construction, more turbo power – the ŠKODA FABIA and ŠKODA FABIA COMBI feature the Czech car manufacturer’s latest developments under their bonnets. Thanks to an increase in injection pressure to 250 bar, both power variants of the new 1.0-litre engine offer better driving performance than the 1.2-litre engines that have been used up to now and they also achieve a reduction in fuel consumption of up to 6 per cent. 

The third generation of the ŠKODA FABIA impresses with a dynamic and emotive design, a large amount of interior space, innovative safety, comfort and infotainment systems‚ and numerous ‘Simply Clever’ features. The car offers a range of in-car equipment that exceeds the current offering in the small car segment by far. 

Three-cylinder engine with very smooth running and sporty sound
Besides its smooth running, the ŠKODA FABIA’s new 1.0-l TSI three-cylinder engine also impresses with its sporty and dynamic sound. With its compact construction and due to its lightweight aluminium crankcase, the engine weighs ten kilograms less than the 1.2-litre engine that has been used to date. The aluminium pistons and the connecting rods are so well balanced that the engine runs in a particularly smooth and refined manner with very little friction. A balancing shaft is therefore unnecessary. This saves on weight and helps to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. 

The oil pump, which has a freely controllable flow rate, also helps with this. It continuously adjusts the pressure required to suit the engine load. The boost pressure, which reaches up to 1.6 bar (relatively), increases highly spontaneously due to the turbocharger’s intercooler being integrated into the induction tract. The engine comes across as very responsive and dynamic because the frequency of the exhaust pulses generally builds quicker than with the four-cylinder, for example. This occurs even at low rpm, providing a clear advantage in city traffic. 

The 1.0 TSI with 70 kW (95 PS): stronger, faster, more tractability and quicker acceleration
The power output of the ŠKODA FABIA 1.0 TSI with manual five-speed transmission is 70 kW (95 PS). Torque remains unchanged at 160 Nm, yet the driving performance has been improved. Compared to the 1.2 litre engine with four cylinder used to date, the top speed has increased by 3 km/h to 185 km/h (ŠKODA FABIA COMBI: from 185 to 187 km/h) and the acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h has improved by 0.3 seconds to 10.6 seconds (ŠKODA FABIA COMBI: from 11.0 to 10.8 seconds). The engine’s tractability from 60 to 100 km/h and from 80 to 120 km/h is identical to its predecessor. The fuel consumption and emissions of the hatchback and Combi,on the other hand, have dropped considerably from 4.6 l per 100 km (105 g CO2/km) to 4.3 l per 100 km (99 g CO2/km). 

The 1.0 TSI with 81 kW (110 PS): power output unchanged, considerably more torque
Just like its 1.2-litre predecessor, the more powerful 1.0-litre engine with manual six-speed transmission delivers 81 kW (110 PS); however, its torque has increased from 175 to 200 Nm. Acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h is achieved in 9.5 seconds (ŠKODA FABIA COMBI 9.6 seconds); the top speed is 196 km/h (ŠKODA FABIA COMBI 199 km/h). The increase in torque is most noticeable when accelerating on country roads or motorways. The improved tractability of the engine is most evident when it is combined with the optional 7-speed DSG transmission. In the highest gear, the short burst from 60 to 100 km/h can now be accomplished up to 2.6 seconds faster (ŠKODA FABIA hatchback 2.4 seconds), while acceleration from 80 to 120 km/h is as much as 4.1 seconds faster (ŠKODA FABIA hatchback 3.9 seconds). In the manual versions of the hatchback and Combi, the fuel consumption and emissions of the three-cylinder with 81 KW / 110 PS have dropped by 0.3 l to 4.4 l per 100 km (101 g CO2/km). For the DSG-transmission versions, the fuel consumption has reduced in both variants by 0.1 l to 4.5 l per 100 km (104 g CO2/km).

Driver assistance systems usually seen in higher segments
The ŠKODA FABIA provides safety systems that exceed the current offering in the small car segment by far. In addition to six airbags, the Electronic Stability Control (ESC) and the XDS+ electronic differential lock, the portfolio also includes the optional Front Assist (reduces the risk of rear-end collisions) with the integrated City Emergency Brake function (which brings the vehicle to a standstill when an impending collision is detected). Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) is also available for the new three-cylinder versions. This consistently maintains a gap from the vehicle in front at speeds of up to 160 km/h. The Multi-Collision Brake function automatically applies the ŠKODA FABIA’s brakes after an accident to prevent any further damage. Driver Alert fatigue detection recognises a reduction in the driver’s concentration and emits a warning. The Speed Limiter function prevents the vehicle from going above the chosen speed. Hill-Hold Control provides assistance when performing a hill start. The electronic tyre pressure monitor comes as standard in EU countries. 

Numerous comfort features also make the ŠKODA FABIA unique in the small car segment. These include the KESSY (Keyless Entry Start and Exit System) automatic electronic starting and locking system, and the front and rear parking sensors. The rain sensor as well as Light Assist provide optimum visibility. The former automatically regulates the speed of the windscreen wipers and the latter turns full beam on or off depending on the light conditions.

In-car ŠKODA Connect, help at the touch of a button
As an option, occupants in the ŠKODA FABIA can be ‘always online’ thanks to the new ŠKODA Connect services, which consist of Infotainment Online and Care Connect. One of the most attractive services that Infotainment Online has to offer is online traffic information, which shows traffic flow on the selected route in real time and suggests alternative routes in the event of a traffic jam. Infotainment Online services also provide information on petrol stations, available parking spaces, the news and the weather. 

The Care Connect services support drivers in many situations. Data is transferred via a SIM card that is permanently installed in the vehicle. The services include Emergency Call, which automatically connects to an emergency call centre when a restraint system has been deployed; it can also be operated manually.

The Care Connect services also include Breakdown Call – which can be used to arrange help, if necessary, or to provide answers to technical questions about the vehicle – and Proactive Service. Proactive Service allows service-relevant vehicle data to be sent to a ŠKODA garage in a timely manner before the vehicle’s service. The driver can remotely access information about whether the windows, doors and sunroof are closed as well as the ŠKODA FABIA’s remaining fuel level via the ŠKODA Connect app at any time. Furthermore, they can send navigation destinations to the car or display the vehicle’s current parking location on their smartphone. 

The SmartLink+ interface transfers selected smartphone apps including navigation apps to the infotainment system’s display. The integrated SmartGate function makes it possible to collect and save vehicle data on a connected smartphone and use it on the move. 

‘Simply Clever’ – the ŠKODA FABIA is packed full of well-thought-out features
Like all ŠKODA models, the ŠKODA FABIA is packed full of ‘Simply Clever’ features, including an umbrella under the passenger seat, an ice scraper in the fuel filler flap, a multimedia cradle in the centre console’s cup holder (provides space for a smartphone or iPod) a portable waste bin, a hi-vis-vest storage compartment and bottle holder in the door trims, storage nets on the inside of the front seats and space for a 1.0-litre bottle in the glove compartment.

[Big Steve]

Just missed out on the 3 cylinder engine then... Rats!!

 

I loved the sound of the 3 cylinder in our Citigo but I have always liked the 1.2 for its quietness so swings & gyratory systems!!

Edited 3 March, 2017 by Big Steve

[pee81]

I wish Skoda would pull their bloody finger out and put a decent engine in the mk3 and whack some vrs badges on

[ettlz]

1 hour ago, Big Steve said:

Just missed out on the 3 cylinder engine then... Rats!!

 

I loved the sound of the 3 cylinder in our Citigo but I have always liked the 1.2 for its quietness so swings & gyratory systems!!

 

Isn't your 1.2 in the lower £20 tax bracket? (Although in fairness, the reduction in fuel consumption might offset this -- if the figures are to be believed.)

Edited 3 March, 2017 by ettlz

[vc-10]

The new engines are more efficient, so if the tax system was kept the same then they'd be dropping down a group into the £0 bracket (for the 95PS version, anyway). The only reason they won't is because of the mad new system they're bringing in in April, which makes absolutely no sense at all to me, removing incentives for small, light, efficient cars and incentivising heavy inefficient ones. 

[ettlz]

2 hours ago, vc-10 said:

The new engines are more efficient, so if the tax system was kept the same then they'd be dropping down a group into the £0 bracket (for the 95PS version, anyway). The only reason they won't is because of the mad new system they're bringing in in April, which makes absolutely no sense at all to me, removing incentives for small, light, efficient cars and incentivising heavy inefficient ones. 

 

I don't think it's all bad, I believe it was introduced to resolve certain regressive anomalies. (For example, certain premium diesel BMWs were in the £0 bracket. We've all got our prejudices, and well, I refuse to weep for Beemer owners.) However I do think the new bands are rather bluntly applied. Fuel cell and electric is still too expensive (and let's face it, not ready for prime-time) and it would've been better to still have a few sub-£100 brackets to encourage progressive emissions down-sizing over 3-year cycles.

 

Edited 4 March, 2017 by ettlz

[Ootohere]

Seems perfectly fair since the EU Test results are in a Temperature Controlled building and are nothing to do with a vehicle with passengers and luggage or maybe a trailer or caravan out on the road, so not the C02 / NoX or the real world MPG.

The UK Government have known that for the past 2 decades but just gone with the EU Flow / Kidology.

http://skoda.co.uk/pages/fuel-consumption-statement.aspx 

 

So if you really have a low emissions Euro 6 engine in petrol or diesel you will emit less emissions and buy less fuel to drive around, 

so you pay your £140 for Road Tax again. (Not Vehicle Excise Duty)  

& you pay less Tax-VAT & Duty to buy fuel because you need less from your MPG attained.

Edited 4 March, 2017 by Awayoffski

[vc-10]

I agree that the tests are terrible- nobody gets what the official figures suggest. But those cheap-to-tax BMWs are pretty efficient- my dad had a 2012 320d and it averaged 57 mpg over the time he had it, despite driving it quite hard fairly often. 

 

What they should have done is to introduce new lower brackets. They said that the major reason for the changes was that many cars are now in the brackets that are less than £30 a year, which of course significantly reduced the chancellor's income. If they introduced a new <90 g bracket, and had that be the free one and everything else move up one, then they'd continue to incentivise low-emission vehicles while increasing income. It seems nuts that a base-model Citigo, probably one of the cheapest cars on the road to run and one of the greenest new-car options out there, will end up paying the same amount of tax as a BMW X4.

 

I do quite like the £310 annual levy for more expensive cars for the first 5 years though, although it's a fairly crude way of doing it. 

[Ootohere]

It was a nonsense and still is that people have cars on the road with £0, £20, £30 VED and they still take up road space or parking spaces & maybe use little fuel so Tax/ Duty paid not the the Treasury but to everyone in the UK, drivers or not.

 

So now people are going to pay 'Road Tax Again' unless they have EV's.

Some with EV's will even get free electricity, but likely pay Taxes / VAT etc, some will pay taxes on Electricity,

but hey ho the whole country is paying the price of pollution and keeping up the highways and byways.

[rum4mo]

Nice of Skoda to point the finger at their previous range of small engines where normally you might expect marque A to compare their new engine range with marque B.

Back in April 2015 when I was ordering my wife's new Polo 110PS I was hoping that I would get in before the change of engine as I was warned that I might miss out and have to accept a 1.0TSI 110PS, I still think that the 1.2TSI 16V 110PS is the better engine for my or that car's use, based only on gut feeling - maybe time will tell if I'm right in thinking that way, who knows!

[alltorque]

8 hours ago, rum4mo said:

Nice of Skoda to point the finger at their previous range of small engines where normally you might expect marque A to compare their new engine range with marque B.

Back in April 2015 when I was ordering my wife's new Polo 110PS I was hoping that I would get in before the change of engine as I was warned that I might miss out and have to accept a 1.0TSI 110PS, I still think that the 1.2TSI 16V 110PS is the better engine for my or that car's use, based only on gut feeling - maybe time will tell if I'm right in thinking that way, who knows!

Happy to stick with my 4 cylinders. 3 cylinders is merely half of a balanced engine.  Let's have something really quirky...a 1.5 V6 TSI with 200bhp and suspension to match. Fuel economy, schmool economy. Life is for living.

[ettlz]

3 hours ago, alltorque said:

Happy to stick with my 4 cylinders. 3 cylinders is merely half of a balanced engine.  Let's have something really quirky...a 1.5 V6 TSI with 200bhp and suspension to match. Fuel economy, schmool economy. Life is for living.

 

Come on, 3-cyls have bags of quirk and character. How about a 5-cyl 1.5 TSI? Yes, driving's a dangerous, expensive and polluting activity and not for the squeamish. But there's a certain satisfaction that the engine is extracting as much work from its petrol as mechanical engineering and thermodynamics will allow.

 

After all, isn't this the whole point of TSI -- efficient when cruising, but capable of really 'going for the burn' when you need the power?

Edited 5 March, 2017 by ettlz

[GeneralPurpose]

I see nothing wrong with the move to 3 cylinder motors. It's the way the world is going before EV's become the norm. I however, am very very happy with the 1.2TSI 110ps engine. It's lovely! Very punchy and very economical too.

[alltorque]

2 hours ago, ettlz said:

 

Come on, 3-cyls have bags of quirk and character. How about a 5-cyl 1.5 TSI? Yes, driving's a dangerous, expensive and polluting activity and not for the squeamish. But there's a certain satisfaction that the engine is extracting as much work from its petrol as mechanical engineering and thermodynamics will allow.

 

After all, isn't this the whole point of TSI -- efficient when cruising, but capable of really 'going for the burn' when you need the power?

Now, a 5-cyl TSI would fit the bill very nicely, particularly having spent some years with a lovely Volvo D5 device. They do sound nice. Will remain open-minded about 3-cyl engines but not desperate to own one...at this stage. Will have a test drive at some stage but the Fabia will be with me for a while yet - unless I get to afford a Superb Estate 3.6 V6. 

[ettlz]

33 minutes ago, alltorque said:

Now, a 5-cyl TSI would fit the bill very nicely, particularly having spent some years with a lovely Volvo D5 device. They do sound nice. Will remain open-minded about 3-cyl engines but not desperate to own one...at this stage. Will have a test drive at some stage but the Fabia will be with me for a while yet - unless I get to afford a Superb Estate 3.6 V6. 

 

I think 3-cyls are an acquired taste. I've had the 1.0 MPI and the old 1.2/70PS (a.k.a. HTP, in an Ibiza) and liked both of them. They did the job they were designed to do very well and without fuss. The 1.2, although not super-powerful, felt quite torquey (112 Nm) and responsive at the low end.

 

Barring a technological revolution in battery technology or hydrogen storage, I don't think liquid hydrocarbon fuels will be going away any time soon. I'm not aware of anything else out there that matches their energy density with their comparative safety -- so no nuclear Fabias! Going forward I think the question is: when and in what form will we hit peak ICE efficiency?

Edited 5 March, 2017 by ettlz

[pfaff]

Got the 95  engine in my Seat Ibiza. Very nice for urban traffic, seems a bit noisier at motrway driving. Rev higher than the 4 cyl 110.

The Seat has a 5-speed manual, dunno if its available with a 6-speed.  We dont fancy automatics,

Good milage, just about 5 liters/100 km at job related urban driving which is what Ive got that car for.

 

Edited 5 March, 2017 by pfaff

[vc-10]

On 3/4/2017 at 19:59, Awayoffski said:

It was a nonsense and still is that people have cars on the road with £0, £20, £30 VED and they still take up road space or parking spaces & maybe use little fuel so Tax/ Duty paid not the the Treasury but to everyone in the UK, drivers or not.

 

So now people are going to pay 'Road Tax Again' unless they have EV's.

Some with EV's will even get free electricity, but likely pay Taxes / VAT etc, some will pay taxes on Electricity,

but hey ho the whole country is paying the price of pollution and keeping up the highways and byways.

 

The aim was to incentivise people to buy more efficient cars (and it worked). The amount of damage caused to the roads by even the largest, most polluting car is very little in comparison to HGVs and busses, which by nature of being heavier cause most of the damage. 

 

This is why I think they should have moved the cutoffs- you could quite easily push down the CO2 boundaries so that more cars are in higher brackets, forcing people to pay tax on cars they previously wouldn't have, but while still incentivising the purchase of more efficient vehicles.

[Skid]

It's all a bloody farce. I pay £20 pa to tax my 1.2tsi dsg Fabia 3. Economy wise, just filled it up and was showing 44mpg since last refuel. In reality, miles per litres filled up with, more accurate figure was 40mpg.

 

Thats less mpg than my 16yr old 1000cc motorcycle that I pay nearly four times as much to tax pa. Go figure? Clearly my motorcycle does more damage to the roads than my car. 

 

There seems to be little or no logic to the new or frankly the old taxation system imho. And as for paying for the upkeep of the highways and byways? When are they going to start that program then? 

 

Okay rant over.......for now.