Was speccing up a 3rd gen Fabia, and in the configuration Skoda seem to have leaked the facelift, see in the screenshot below. 

 

What do you think of the letter badge on the Fabia? I like it on the Scala and Superb, but I feel that it’s clear that the Fabia was designed before the letter badge was.  

Still, it is growing on me slightly, and I’ll be interested to see how it looks in the flesh when Skoda get around to revealing it formally. 

Would be a Facelifted Facelifted Mk3 then.   Or arse lift!

About the 3rd version of the All New 3rd Generation Fabia.

6th or 7th Version of the Fabia since 1999.

Edited 3 November, 20196 yr by Roottootemoot

I thought it had already had it a year or so ago???

41 minutes ago, Miller73 said:

I thought it had already had it a year or so ago???

 

41 minutes ago, Roottootemoot said:

Would be a Facelifted Facelifted Mk3 then.   Or arse lift!

About the 3rd version of the All New 3rd Generation Fabia.

6th or 7th Version of the Fabia since 1999.

 

I suppose this second facelift suggests that they’re not planning on releasing a 4th gen Fabia anytime soon.

Hopefully that will follow the rest of the models, but miss the Light Hybrid thing and go straight to being an EV as with the Citigo,

especially a EV Fabia Estate which would really be a winner.

1 hour ago, Roottootemoot said:

Hopefully that will follow the rest of the models, but miss the Light Hybrid thing and go straight to being an EV as with the Citigo,

especially a EV Fabia Estate which would really be a winner.

 

I agree, considering that Skoda got on the electrification trend so late, they can’t really afford to just make a petrol car with a hairdryer motor and call it a Light Hybrid. 

An electric Fabia Estate with a Range Extender a la BMW i3 REx could be a great all round electric car for electric car newbies. 

No chance of that as BMW gained sense on that one.

It was a con on any actual low emissions just like plug in hybrids.

16 minutes ago, Roottootemoot said:

No chance of that as BMW gained sense on that one.

It was a con on any actual low emissions just like plug in hybrids.

 

I suppose Skoda kind of has to go with whatever the VW group is investing in at the time as they don’t seem to have the autonomy or freedom that Audi and Porsche do. 

Probably not much incentive for Skoda to replace the Fabia

 

In its more expensive forms, they would prefer you to buy a Scala or Kamiq

In it’s cheaper basic form, probably don’t make much profit

Basically get punters to buy more profitable cars instead

 

Financially probably thinking just keep a rationalised range going for bit longer so a few minor tweaks will do, within a few years many small cars will be electric so just keep it going until small family sized electric car on sale

 

On 04/11/2019 at 06:47, SurreyJohn said:

Probably not much incentive for Skoda to replace the Fabia

 

In its more expensive forms, they would prefer you to buy a Scala or Kamiq

In it’s cheaper basic form, probably don’t make much profit

Basically get punters to buy more profitable cars instead

 

Financially probably thinking just keep a rationalised range going for bit longer so a few minor tweaks will do, within a few years many small cars will be electric so just keep it going until small family sized electric car on sale

 

But surely there will always be a market for cars this size, especiailly considering that cars like the Citigo will no longer be available soon? Going off previous Fabia generations, the next one will simply be a boxier version of the latest Polo, so it wouldn't really cost them much in terms of development costs....

I don't think there will be owner drivers pretty soon, start saving for a rail card.

Or you could queue for a .....