Road test review: Extra sophistication and size comes to the no-nonsense Skoda Fabia supermini, but at what cost?
We return to the bustling core of the European car market for this week’s road test subject. In spite of all the strategic plans for decarbonisation of model lines both great and small, and everything else going in more rarefied parts of the market, the petrol supermini remains an absolutely central player in our consumption of the new car. Four of the UK’s 10 best-selling cars in 2021 were superminis. On the European continent, it was five in 10.
The inexorable rise and rise of the electric car, and of SUVs and SUV-alikes, might have pulled the rug out from underneath any number of more traditional vehicle classes, but our appetite for the sort of compact, functional new cars that provide freedom and mobility at lower prices hasn’t been dulled one jot by any of those new sales phenomena.
Skoda says the new Fabia “delivers a revolution in design language”. We’re not sure. With a different grille, it could easily pass for a Volkswagen Polo. It’s handsome and modern enough, but it is not hugely distinctive.
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