Amazing feature on new Skoda Fabia

Bluehair

Was doing a little checking around on various cars and having a look through the spec for the new 1.4tdi Fabia on the Irish website. It's actually not a bad car for the money but someone is taking the mickey with;

http://www.skoda.ie/newcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=Details&vehicle_id=75924120040101&strSpecs=SSCIRL2002

"Individual driver and passenger seat" :rolleyes:

Well thats super!

Whats next? "See-through glass on windscreen and all other windows"? "Steering Wheel on driver side"? or perhaps even "Individual tyre on every wheel"?

The Clown Man

Roof aerial
Manufacturers Own RDS ARI/EON audio player with AM/FM and cassette
Key central door locking includes dead bolt
Cloth seat upholstery with additional cloth
Individual driver and passenger seat
Three one-piece bench front facing one-piece squab rear seats
Plastic steering wheel with tilt adjustment and telescopic adjustment(?)
Vehicle speed proportional power steering electro-hydraulic
Glove compartment with lid
Cup holders for rear seats fixed
Ventilation system with recirculation setting and air filter
Driver internally adjustable black door mirrors with wide angle , passenger internally adjustable black door mirrors
Tinted glass on cabin
Audio anti-theft protection: code and integrated into fascia

Exterior
Part-painted front and rear bumpers
Front and rear conventional tyres with 165 mm tyre width, 70% tyre profile and T tyre rating
Front and rear steel wheels with 14 inch rim diam, 5 inch rim width and full wheel covers

Safety
Two disc brakes including two ventilated discs
Four-wheel ABS
Immobiliser
Twin complex surface lens halogen bulb headlights
Headlight control with internal height adjustment
High mount brake light
Driver front airbag
Two height adjustable head restraints on front seats , three height adjustable head restraints on rear seats
Height adjustable 3-point reel front seat belts on driver seat and passenger seat with pre-tensioners Wow
3-point reel rear seat belts on driver side, passenger side and centre side
Windscreen wipers with variable intermittent wipe

Technical
1,422 cc 1.4 litres in-line 3 transverse engine with 79.5 mm bore, 95.5 mm stroke, 19.5 compression ratio, overhead cam and two valves per cylinder
Turbo compressor
Pump injection fuel system
Diesel fuel
Performance: maximum speed (mph): 104, maximum speed (km/h): 168 and acceleration 0-100 km/h (secs): 14.2
Power: 55 kW , 75 HP EEC @ 4,000 rpm; , 195 Nm @ 2,200 rpm
Independent strut front suspension with anti-roll bar and coil springs , semi-independent torsion beam rear suspension with coil springs
Manual five-speed transmission with gear lever on floor

Jez that's the greatest space filler i've ever seen!

Andrew Duffy

I guess they're still used to describing cars for pre-Glasnost Eastern Europe. I love "glove compartment with lid".

ZENER

LOL

What about:

... Cup holders for rear seats fixed


Why ? were they broken ?

ZENER

the evil belly

i think it was on 5th gear on discovery channel that tiff needell did laps in both a new mini cooper and a diesel skoda fabia. the skoda beat it by over half a second.

weemcd

roffl, the seller is clearley trying to make the car seem more feature packed, lol who can resist a car with with additional cloth , Glove compartment with lid and my personal fave; Front and rear steel wheels with 14 inch rim diam, 5 inch rim width and full wheel covers

Yamad Kuntya

people can say what they like but its hard find better value for money than skoda and my next motor willbe octavia TD(RED)i .. class motor and no self respecting thief will ever look at one twice IMO ... roll on cheap motoring and goodbye rice bowl rockets(sparklers even!!)