Hi, while shopping for groceries, I spotted this MK1 Fabia with these decals on them. I had never heard of a sport line MK1 and I wanted to know more. As it turns out, google is no use. Does anyone hew know whether or not these are genuine? Either way, I think they look pretty neat!

Might be a "dealer special"?

I hadn't even considered that! My guess is that it might have been a very niche combination of trim options that would then have been dubbed "Sport Line".

7 minutes ago, DRJ said:

Might be a "dealer special"?

Nothing special about those nasty plastic wheel trims. Looks like some decals fitted by the owner to snazzy it up.

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Edited 19 February, 20215 yr by DRJ

Czechoslovakian Special Edition - note the car in the top post has left hand drive!

https://www.aaaauto.eu/en/skoda-fabia/car.html?id=378055936

Here's a Polish one - doesn't have the external graphics but does have the red seat belts as seen in the red one:

https://www.olx.pl/oferta/skoda-fabia-sport-line-1-4-z-klimatyzacja-CID5-IDIoCTw.html#e012128894

37 minutes ago, DRJ said:

Czechoslovakian Special Edition - note the car in the top post has left hand drive!

https://www.aaaauto.eu/en/skoda-fabia/car.html?id=378055936

The left hand drive checks out. This one was spotted in Germany. I don't know whether or not it had red seatbelts although from the picture, they do seem to have a reddish tint. Furthermore, This car is registered in Kleve, which is in the east of Germany. I think it is unlikely that this car came al the way from Poland or Czechoslovakia, so I am starting to doubt the dealer special theory. How in the world did you find those listings so quickly by the way? I've been on and off the last day and a half looking for this thing and came up empty-handed! Hats off to you!

There was a Sport model offered in the UK in the Mk 2 body style with a lairy yellow colour but weedy engines IIRC.

10 minutes ago, AnotherBoringFabia said:

 This car is registered in Kleve, which is in the east of Germany.

Apologies, I meant west, not east.

So I found another one after figuring out the year of manufacture of that red one @DRJ found. It seems to be a 2005 "Sport" edition.

12 hours ago, AnotherBoringFabia said:

... I am starting to doubt the dealer special theory...

 

 

Absolutely - as soon as I found the red one. A dealer wouldn't be changing the seat belts.

12 hours ago, AnotherBoringFabia said:

How in the world did you find those listings so quickly by the way? I've been on and off the last day and a half looking for this thing and came up empty-handed! Hats off to you!

 

Thanks - I have developed somewhat of a speciality in ferreting things out on Google. It was partly owing to research I was doing at work and partly simply an obsession in trying to find things. Here's part of the search history from yesterday - apologies for spelling Czechoslovakia wrongly!

I can definitely tell! That's impressive!

12 hours ago, DRJ said:

 apologies for spelling Czechoslovakia wrongly!

I wouldn't blame you, with all due respect to Czechoslovakians!

Czechoslovakia hasn't existed since 1993.

Edited 20 February, 20215 yr by TMB

7 hours ago, TMB said:

Czechoslovakia hasn't existed since 1993.

Very true Lee, but it did when I was there as a guest of a family in 1976, lots of Russian soldiers walking around in pairs tho at that time.