@Fabia, je kunt de 1.2 12 v niet vergelijken met de 1.4 16V maar ik heb al in meerdere topics aangegeven dat de motor echt "pittiger" aanvoelt, en zeer prettig rijd, alleen als je maar op de snelweg rijd met snelheden boven de 120 zou ik hem niet nemen. Voor derest een top motor. Het enige wat me tegenhoud om een Roomster Scout tekopen is het feit dat deze in Nederland niet leverbaar is met de 1.2 12V, misschien voor toch de reden om evntueel te wachten op de Fabia Scout
Lees hier deze engels test maar eens over de 1.2 12V, waar ze ook weer aangeven dat deze motor veel plezier levert en levendiger aanvoelt dan menig andere motor met meer pk.
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The Fabia so powered isn't fast, but it is very willing and happy to pull from a low speed in a high gear.
Curiously, a Vauxhall Corsa 1.2, with an extra cylinder and 11 more bhp, feels less lively. It doesn't romp up hills as the Fabia does; it can't hold its own on motorways like the Czech car can. The Fabia's engine perfectly suits its personality - fearlessly logical, a bit left-field.
Road Test: Skoda Fabia 1.2 12V
Who needs a VW Polo when the same group brings you this terrific supermini for a lot less money? Now, the joke is on Skoda's competitors, says John Simister
Engine: 1,198cc, 3 cylinders, 12v, 70bhp at 5,400rpm, 83lb ft at 3,000rpm
Transmission: five-speed gearbox, front-wheel drive
Performance: 101mph, 0-62mph in 14 seconds, 47.9mpg official average
CO2: 140g/km
Does the front of this new Skoda Fabia look familiar? It's exactly the same as the launched Roomster, the car that signposted the way Skodas will look from now on.
This is good. The Roomster is very distinctive. And now Skoda's supermini is reinvented as another instantly recognisable car, with a "blade" roof like a Mini and another take on the curved-lower-corner side window next to a thick rear pillar. You can even have it with contrasting roof paint.
This new Fabia cements the idea of a Skoda as a good-value, original-looking, high-quality car. It's a world away from how Skodas were once perceived.
Seven years ago, the first Fabia was the roomiest supermini. It set a trend in upsizing that all rivals followed. So there was little point in making the new one much bigger again. The growth is modest: 47mm taller (and visually proud of it), fractionally longer, and a larger boot, thanks to clever packaging.
This Fabia uses the main underpinnings of the last one, with some strengthening to meet new safety rules. Much of the height increase is designed to accommodate a higher driving position needed to see over a bonnet raised to reduce damage to pedestrians silly enough to walk in front of a moving Fabia. Rear passengers get a generous headroom increase.
Today, a "platform" is more than just a large piece of pressed steel. It includes other elements of the "architecture", such as electrics, engines, transmissions and suspensions. So the new Fabia retains the hydraulic power-steering of the old one (albeit with an electric pump), and is not cursed with the all-electric systems that mar many of its rivals. Such systems are getting better, but I have yet to try one as natural-feeling as a hydraulic equivalent.
It takes just a few yards to feel this advantage, because the Fabia puts you in touch with the road in the nicest way. We'll major on the second-from-bottom version first, the 1.2-litre three-cylinder one with 12 valves and 69bhp. (There's a six-valve, 60bhp one, but maybe that's just too hair-shirt.)
The 12-valver soaks up bumps with an easy suppleness, yet when you turn the steering wheels you feel a precise, proportional response and credible feedback. You have to make bigger movements of the wheel than is becoming the norm these days, but so pleasing are the accuracy and the subtlety that I don't mind this at all.
The Fabia corners with all the precision hinted at by its crisp-edged bodywork and the wide, wheels-at-the-corners stance, much like the excellent Roomster. It's a happy, natural mode of progress, and the game little engine makes it all the better with its deep, three-cylinder, smooth-spinning throb. The Fabia so powered isn't fast (14 seconds is needed to reach 60mph), but it is very willing and happy to pull from a low speed in a high gear.
Curiously, a Vauxhall Corsa 1.2, with an extra cylinder and 11 more bhp, feels less lively. It doesn't romp up hills as the Fabia does; it can't hold its own on motorways like the Czech car can. The Fabia's engine perfectly suits its personality - fearlessly logical, a bit left-field.
There are other engines. Two are four-cylinder petrol units, of 1.4 litres/86bhp or 1.6 litres/ 105bhp. The diesels are two three-cylinder 1.4s, of 69 or 80bhp and impressive torque, and a four-cylinder 1.9 with 105bhp. I sampled the 80bhp diesel, with a gruffer version of that three-cylinder tune, and was impressed by the way it shrugged off four men plus luggage. At about 60mpg, it's the most frugal Fabia, too.
I also tried the new 1.6-litre petrol engine, mated in the test car to an also-new, six-speed automatic transmission. This engine powers the fastest Fabia (10.1 seconds to 62mph, so merely brisk), but it's a bland, characterless unit after the "threes". It makes for a lumpier Fabia over bumps, too, thanks to the stiffer springs. All told, opting for ostensibly the better engine results merely in a personality bypass. But it's the only choice if you have to drive an automatic, and the new gearbox is a responsive shifter even if it does worsen typical economy (and emissions) by 10 per cent.
The Fabia is good for storage space, with two gloveboxes (albeit shallow) and a boot-tidy. There's a strong air of quality, too, with a padded dashboard and durable-looking, tasteful fabrics. Even the hard plastics elsewhere have a decent surface finish and fit very well.
Badge apart, there's nothing a Polo can offer over the cheaper Fabia. OK, it lacks viscous damping in the grab-handles, but the Skoda has assumed the old VW mantle of a high-quality, classless people's car. The 1.2-litre, 69bhp Fabia is the most pleasing supermini I've driven for a while, a genuinely clever small(ish) car with a happy disposition. It reminds me of my old Saab 96 two-stroke, and that's very refreshing.