Fabia’s cool and colourful
SKODA is aiming to bring more colour into the lives of potential customers with two special editions of its smaller family models.
The Skoda Citygo Colour Edition and the Skoda Fabia Colour Edition both take away the pressures of trying to personalise your car – by doing the job for you.
And in both cases you get a variety of extra features at a bargain basement price.
On the £10,350 five-door Citygo Colour Edition, for example, you pay £855 more than for the Citygo SE that the model is based on but get £1,485 worth of additional features. If you want to keep the price down even more a three-door Citygo Colour Edition will cost you £9,990.
The Fabia Colour Edition at £14,870 costs an additional £540 more than the SE that it’s based on but that buys you £1,045 worth of extra features.
On both Citygo and Fabia the upgrades are definitely cosmetic rather than practical but in both cases give the cars more kerb appeal. The two-tone Fabia, for example, gets contrasting colours for the roof and the body as well as 16-inch coloured alloy wheels. The white body with blue roof version looks particularly striking. Other little niceties include daytime running lights, tinted glass in the rear side windows and six loud- speakers. The Citygo Colour Edition gets 15-inch black Auriga alloy wheels, body coloured door mirrors, front fog lights, tinted glass on the side windows and a Portable Infotainment System.
The Citygo is the ideal model for about town thanks to its compact dimensions which make it a park anywhere car.
Powered by a 1.0-litre, 60bhp engine it has a top speed of 99mph, and although its 0-62mph time of 14.4 seconds sounds positively pedestrian it never really feels that slow in true traffic conditions. In fact the throaty, three-cylinder engine always has a sense of business-like urgency about it.
The little car buzzes along while just sipping fuel at the miserly rate of more than 62 miles per gallon.
If you are looking for a bit more space the 1.2-litre Fabia Colour Edition is one of the biggest superminis on the road yet will still average more than 60 mpg. With 90bhp under the bonnet you get lively performance with a 0-62 acceleration time of a very respectable 10.9 seconds.
The gearbox on this model is one of the smoothest around but – like the Citygo – has only five rather than six gears.
On the move it’s quiet, refined and comes well equipped with everything from air conditioning, cruise control and rear parking sensors to luggage hooks in the boot.
Sales of the Fabia together with Skoda’s larger hatchback the Octavia now represent 55% of the company’s sales in the UK.
In fact sales of the Fabia alone are up 45% in the last 12 months.
Some 25 years after it became part of the Volkswagen Group, Skoda is ridding the crest of the wave with an 80% increase in sales in the UK. The company that has such a noble past – it dates back to 1895 – obviously now has a very secure future too.