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Last Auto account – Skoda endless up baking Fabia vRS Hot Skoda accessible as both bear and, for aboriginal time, estate

Small, but powerful… Skoda’s fast and applied new Fabia vRS was one of the Geneva show’s big stars. What’s more, it’s accessible as an acreage for the aboriginal time.

The bear looked abundant with its Viper Green acrylic and allegory atramentous roof – aswell accessible in white or argent – while the load-carrier acclimatized for an all-red combination. Both cars action the Fabia’s facelifted lights and added arresting grille.

The hot archetypal is aswell apparent out by 17-inch â??Gigaro’ alloys, red anchor calipers and a rear bonanza chip with accompanying exhausts and a diffuser. Under the beanie is the aforementioned 178bhp 1.4 TSI supercharged turbo that appearance in its Volkswagen Polo GTI and SEAT Ibiza Cupra cousins. Power is fed through VW’s hi-tech seven-speed DSG gearbox, which is adapted as standard, while achievement is lively: 0-60mph takes 7.3 abnormal and the top acceleration is 140mph. Economy charcoal at an absorbing 44.1mpg.

The Fabia is aswell adapted with an XDS cyberbanking differential. This brakes the central foreground caster to abstain wheelspin on the avenue of a bend.

And in accurate Skoda style, the vRS affairs to attenuate rivals from aural the VW family, admitting accepting the aforementioned hi-tech underpinnings. It will bang off at almost £2,000 beneath than the Polo GTI – which is set to alpha from about £18,000 – if it goes on auction in June.