MINI Cooper S beats Skoda Fabia 130 in warm hatch twin test 🇬🇧🇨🇿💪👊
Birthdays are often a time of celebration, and most car makers won’t miss an opportunity to cash in on an anniversary by launching a special edition. There are extremes, such as the Ferrari F40 and F50, or there’s Volkswagen with its Edition variants of the Golf GTI that appear when another decade has clocked up.
For Skoda, the anniversary it’s currently celebrating is 130 years since the founding of its Laurin & Klement predecessor at the end of 1895, and to mark this occasion, it’s launched a special-edition Fabia that adds some sporty style to its supermini. There are racier looks inside and out, while the 1.5 TSI petrol engine has been uprated to 175bhp, so the Fabia 130 comes close to matching the last Fabia vRS for power output.
Skoda is far from being the first car maker to pump up its supermini with go-faster goodies. In fact, it’s a cornerstone of MINI’s existence. Although the company’s range has expanded,
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