Oh well i've no idea what i'm doing wrong lol, nice Felicia by the way

Lemme see suitable Fabia vehicles - Jason, Jabba Luke's car, WW, Xav......

Against Eddy's, Des', Q's...... ?

Chris

Try tesco car insurance,

and tesco value insurance.

Cheap as, my insurance is

nice Felicia by the way

Cough, cough........WHAT!:eek:

Cough, cough........WHAT!:eek:

What? From that tiny little thumbnail in his sig it looks like a decently modded car? In my opinion anyway

Oh and i've had tesco before, they're the buggers that charged me 2k for the 1.4 lol, though to be fair they were the chepeast lol Now i'm with more than

Although age and history is a big factor your location will go against/ or for you aswell.

Im with more than and they saved me... well loads just look.

IMHO it is and always has been pretty pointless comparing the Mk1/Mk2 Octavia and the Fabia (Mk1) in this way - they are different cars, with different compromises made on each of them.

Just looking at the vRS versions here for 'ease', but the Mk1 Octy is more thirsty for sure on fuel. Good performance. Mk2 seems good performance and more fuel efficient when cruising on the motorway. Fabia vRS on the motorway should beat both hands down on fuel economy when sticking to NSL territory.

Performance wise, the Mk2 imho seems way ahead, it handles well off-factory. The Fabia & Mk1 Octy need a bit of tweaking to get handling sorted, the Fabia is too nose-heavy and that takes a lot of sorting out, and will never go away.

You can tune the Fabia vRS a lot, but you'll never get petrol turbo power if you spend similar money - say if you spend 1k on both, you should get a much faster petrol car than the equivalent diesel.

Best way to choose - make up your own mind, drive different versions of each (standard/mapped). Dont skip the diesel Octy either, or the 4x4 versions. They may give you what you're after in a car.

Tesco's are not as cheap as Direct Line for me and their customer service is horrible. Mods cost the earth to add and they bill you something like

i have a nice ibiza FR pd130 10k on a 56 reg 3 door in silver for 9500 if anyones interested

go for tha fab vrs alot more fun!

well i went to one of the skoda dealership's today,

there is one around the corner from where i live, but they are main stealers!

so i went to canterbury, bearing in mind i went to several car dealers of different makes today.

renault

peugoet

skoda

VW

honda

mazda

audi

bmw

we got bored and decided to look at car dealerships yesterday.

the skoda was the best for customer service!

renualt and peugoet didn't even want us in the showroom!

Motorline Skoda happily accepted us and treated us like real customers.

i asked for a brochure on the old fabia VRS, they had none left, but i was shown around the car, then i sat in the drivers seat for a while, then He asked if id been out in one, i said no and he took me for a drive.

knowing that we were young and how we would drive it, the guy put his foot down and my mates who have hot hatches were impressed by the little diesel, and the looks, feel, accelleration, miles per gallon, quoted top speed, space, etc.

I was really impressed and if i had the money id have bought one there and then! love at first sight/drive/wheel-spin/drift/price.

I have a feeling this isn't going to last long.

a poor generic remap and a long box. Hardly good sport. I know for a few "Just Remapped" Fabias which would soot on your bonnet as they passed. Those same Fabias will also show a standard Blob Eye a clean pair of heals especially on the track. Do you know what the biggest difference is?

if both cars are driven right by drivers both knowing the situation then that statement simply isn't true and your giving the man false hopes of the fabia, its goes well but it certainly doesn't outperform a blobeye WRX, no way no how.

obviously any car can beat any other car if the situation is right be it down to how far people are willing to push their cars or how close to killing them selves they are willing to go or if one car gets the jump on another but a controlled situation with everyone being equal the imprezza is a fast car compared to our humble skoda's.

I do like Bas's idea of a new day with everyone having fun as then we might(HA!) actually end these arguements, I'd love to go to a hired airfield where we could have tests involving standard/remapped/uber modified versions of all cars but with any day out there will always be racing driver excuses appear :P

from what i have experienced against Johnny on the airfield and at trax last year the Fabia although nippy isn't a match against a 1.8T sadly, now a Fabia with a 1.8T in it would be great fun

I had a blobeye Scoob, and loved it, fully appreciating its abilities. It was highly modified with significant chassis and suspension improvements and was amongst the fastest a-b road cars I have ever been in, frequently outperforming much more powerful cars due to its control and composure, and extremely extended handling limits. My Fabia vRS is on average 40mph slower through corners than my Scoob was, so where I go in at 80 in the Fab it was 120+ in the Scoob. On track my Scoob would anhialate a Fabia, but with me behind the wheel against other Scoob drivers, some cars mod'd, some standard, I had them pegged. The better drivers in our club whooped mi @$$, but most of them were amazed at the little tugboats turn of speed when I took them for a blast. It ain't no Scoob, and it certainly ain't my old one, but it is still a very capable car. 100 through a bend in a Fabia is the same as 100 through a bend in a Scoob, or an Atom, or a Ferrari etc etc. The same driver in controlled tests would highlight the differences, but put a good driver in a slower car against average drivers in a fast one and the balance between the two may be very close, as I found.