While cars such as the Volkswagen Polo and Seat Ibiza have been taking full advantage of MQB technology for several years, Skoda’s Fabia has to make do with the model that came on the market in 2015. Next year a completely new generation of Fabia will be in the showrooms.
Skoda has posted an interview with its new CEO Thomas Schäfer on its blog page. In it, the brand new CEO makes an interesting announcement. According to Schäfer, Skoda will bring a completely new generation of the Fabia to the market next year.
The third generation Fabia currently in Skoda’s showrooms has been there since 2015. Launched at the Paris Motor Show in 2014, the model was facelifted two years ago with a fresher muzzle. That Fabia, of which a station version also exists in the form of the Fabia Combi, still shares its basis with cars such as the Volkswagen Polo of the previous generation. The new Fabia, which will be introduced next year, will undoubtedly also make the switch to the more modern MQB A0 platform during its generation change. Whether there will also be a Fabia RS in the long term remains to be seen. After all, a sporty RS variant of the current generation has never been delivered.
Although, for example, the Renault Clio lost the Estate version in its last generation change, it is likely that the Fabia Combi will return in the long term. The first generation of Fabia Combi sold nearly 575,000 units between 2000 and 2007. The Fabia Combi of generation two made it between 2007 and 2014 to just under 514,000 copies. However, the current Fabia Combi is the least popular in absolute numbers to date. Since 2014, the international sales counter has stood at 382,900 units.