After unveiling its first electric SUV, the Enyaq, Skoda is tackling another project: the renewal of the Fabia, which will still be offered as a station wagon (2023). After making us wait a long time, the manufacturer has published all the details and all the photos on his city car.
[Mise à jour le 20/09/2021] After having renewed its Fabia, Skoda is attempting to double its 100% electric offer. The Enyaq iV will indeed have a coupe version shortly. This range “zero emission exhaust” will be further enhanced by an urban offer, the Elroq. But we will have to wait until 2025 …
The Fabia Combi: the last of the urban station wagons
A city car available as a station wagon? If you thought that the Clio Estate shutdown was the end of this species, you’d be wrong. The Fabia remains available in Combi body, and its next generation does not intend to give up this variation despite the recent arrival of the small SUV Kamiq which could have signed its death warrant. Thomas Schäfer, Skoda boss since 2020, confirmed this to our Czech colleagues at Autorevue. However, this version of the Fabia will not arrive before 2023 on the market, almost three years after the recent city car. To note that if the latter is installed in the factory of Malda Boleslav, the station wagon, Combi, will be assembled in Kvsiny, the other Czech factory of Skoda.
A hybrid Fabia deemed irrelevant
““For me the hybrid only makes sense from the Octavia”, admits Thomas Schäfer, boss of Skoda“
Before adding: “The 1.0 TSI engines are excellent for their fuel economy on the Fabia, so the savings for customers would be minimal while the purchase cost would be much higher.”
A restyling period
After the Kodiaq restyling, Skoda will soon tackle that of the Karoq. The SUV compact will receive minor changes both in terms of its exterior aesthetics and its interior layout. The Scala will also be brought up to date in 2022, before the turn of the Kamiq, the large SUV. urban Czech family. Note that another urban SUV, the Kushaq, has appeared on the Indian market. Based on the same technical platform as our Kamiq, it will however never be marketed in Europe.
Fully electric
While the Enyaq iV has been on the market for a short time, Skoda will, in a few weeks, double the marketing of 100% electric vehicles with the coupe version. It is still an SUV, but its silhouette is more dynamic with a more elusive roof line. It will also be slightly longer (+ 4 mm), but also higher (+ 1 mm), on the other hand its trunk volume will be reduced (- 15 l) compared to that of the classic Enyaq. In terms of engines, this Coupé version will have three offers:
- 60: 179 hp and 58 kWh battery
- 80: 204 hp and 77 kWh battery
- 80x: 265 hp, 4×4, with 77 kWh battery
Subsequently, the range will be enhanced with a more urban offer with the Elroq. A vehicle that will be based on a shortened version of the MEB platform, as will be the case for its technical cousin, the Volkswagen ID.2 announced by the ID concept. Life. This model, assembled in the Seat factory, near Barcelona, will not arrive before 2024.
TO READ. Skoda Elroq (2024). Czech electric city car already has a name
Without forgetting the Superb …
In the meantime, Skoda will have renewed its Superb, the new version of which is expected for 2023. A model all the more important as it will now be manufactured in Bratislava, Slovakia, rather than in the Czech Republic, as is currently the case, and it could, moreover, be freed from internal competition from the Volkswagen Passat sedan.
TO READ. Skoda Enyaq iV coupe (2021): first photo of the electric prototype
Sources: Self-view and Portal Ridice
