Skoda Fabia Dashboard

The Global Warming issue has forced all the automotive manufactures to go green. Most of them are spending billions of dollars on either making electric or hybrid vehicles or designing compact and efficient engines. This has helped technologies like direct fuel injection and turbochargers to evolve even further. The Volkswagen Group has being doing no different. The new Superb was launched with smaller turbocharged petrol and diesel engines (ofcourse, they introduced the 3.6V6 later on for the extreme enthusiasts), and now the Fabia’s old 1.4TDI engine is replaced by the new 1.2TDI.

Skoda had showcased its Fabia at the 2008 Auto Expo held in New Delhi and the Czech automaker went on to launch the hatchback in India later that year. The Skoda Fabia, back then was the most expensive hatchback. Now with increase in competition, Skoda had to drop the prices of the Fabia starting last year. Has Skoda succeeded in doing so in its new Fabia? Dig deeper to get your answers.

In the beginning, 'hatchback' was a term used for car buyers at the bottom of the pecking order. They got them either because they were on a tight budget, or didn't have enough parking space for a boot