RE: Skoda Fabia vRS TDI | Spotted
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No love for the poor little Skoda. PH a tough crowd today. Admittedly at that price its just not a viable car. However, the Fabia VRS is an interesting curiosity if you can pick up a more normal mileage one for reasonable money. The 0-60 time wasn't spectacular, but the in gear acceleration meant it wasn't far off the petrol competition back in 2003, in the good old real world. I had the Audi A3 Sport with the same engine and it felt so torquey back then. I currently run a 318d, with similar torque and obviously a fair bit heavier but my word does it feel slow in gear compared to that old A3. Had so much fun in that car in the early naughties winding up people in supposedly faster petrol cars.
However, this ad does highlight again, how ridiculous prices are now for just about anything with low miles on it. Just can't see who will pay the asking price for this....
However, this ad does highlight again, how ridiculous prices are now for just about anything with low miles on it. Just can't see who will pay the asking price for this....
MattsCar said:
This vehicle cropped up on the Fabia VRS Owners Club on Facebook a good few weeks back as a "what is it worth?" post.
Consensus was that it was a £4-5k car.
No one from there purchased it and a dealer is probably chancing there arm at double what they paid for it.
Its worth more than that, really leggy special editions are £4k-£5k, clean standard ones with 80,000-110,000 miles are around £4k. I recon its £1k-£1.5k overpriced.Consensus was that it was a £4-5k car.
No one from there purchased it and a dealer is probably chancing there arm at double what they paid for it.
I sold my standard one a few years ago with 160,000 stained seats and poor body work for £3.5k, It was a great car with heated seats, xenons and a sunroof.
They are great cars to run if you are doing any sort of millage and don't need to visit a ULEZ zone regularly.
Equus said:
Lotobear said:
My son had the (later) twin charge petrol verison of this with the DSG box and it was bloody quick, at least in a straight line.
I had one of those for a bit, as a company car.I also tried to persuade my girlfriend at the time to buy one of the earlier diesel vRS's when they were new. She declined because of the image of the Skoda badge, but settled on the equivalent SEAT Ibiza FR (same TDI engine, and admittedly prettier... I think it was about a grand more expensive than the Skoda when new, though, from memory).
The first gen diesel and the later twincharge petrol were very different propositions. I'd say that both were brisk rather than genuinely quick, but the petrol excelled at accelerating through the gears, bouncing off the rev limiter with the instantaneous and seamless changes on the DSG box; the diesel excelled at in-gear acceleration at motorway speeds... it was nice, and genuinely impressive on a car of that size and class, to be able to press the accelerator at 70mph and have enough oomph to overtake, without changing down a gear.
I had a Passat 130PD estate as a Co car back in 2001 and as you say that engine would pull like like the proverbial train in gear - much more so than the 2.0 common rail diesel that replaced them, and incredibly frugal on diesel too.
MattsCar said:
This vehicle cropped up on the Fabia VRS Owners Club on Facebook a good few weeks back as a "what is it worth?" post.
Consensus was that it was a £4-5k car.
No one from there purchased it and a dealer is probably chancing there arm at double what they paid for it.
I suspect you would have to be a Skoda fan to want to even pay £4k for an old Fabia. I suppose if it's got collector potential then maybe, just maybe, someone will stump up the cash.Consensus was that it was a £4-5k car.
No one from there purchased it and a dealer is probably chancing there arm at double what they paid for it.
However, I can't imagine there are many people outside of Czechia with a barn full of Skodas.
I have no experience of the Skoda but one of my housemates had the Seat equivalent back when they were new and it was awful. The ride quality was truly awful and the weight over the nose could somehow be felt even as a passenger.
Maybe Skoda did a better job with the suspension, but even if they did I can't see how this is worth much more than shed money.
Maybe Skoda did a better job with the suspension, but even if they did I can't see how this is worth much more than shed money.
Our neighbour in 2006 had one of these I think he'd bought new. Just like this one.
I was in a 99V 206 Dturbo 2.0 Hdi at the time and was well jel!
Btw, you'll probably need earplugs if you go to see this one. No, not because of the clattery PD, but because it's in a compound right next to the northbound M5!
I was in a 99V 206 Dturbo 2.0 Hdi at the time and was well jel!
Btw, you'll probably need earplugs if you go to see this one. No, not because of the clattery PD, but because it's in a compound right next to the northbound M5!
If it were an even lower mileage SE (the Race Blue ones) in immaculate condition (which this isn't) then I could see someone at least asking £7/8k for it. But this is beyond a mickey take at that price. These can still be found in as good condition for half this price. The lack of servicing and other alarm bells would 100% make me look elsewhere.
Had one at 19 until I was 22 as it an alternative to other things that would cost more to run and insure but still gave decent performance. It was much faster that mates Golf's with the same PD130 engine. Was a 56 plate so had the BLT engine code. Many had the "stutter" at a certain rpm but mine was fine. Drove it hard but very nose heavy, ate suspension bushes for fun, brakes were crap so I got a 312mm setup off that gen S3 but I learned a lot with it and meant driving when at Uni was cheap and somewhat entertaining. Traded it in for the Mk2 Fabia vRS estate and after 3yrs barely lost £1500 on it. No way this is worth that. Unless it's one of the last Race Blue ones (most were 07 plates but on was an 09 that got registered late) it's not worth a grand.
Edited by KobayashiMaru86 on Monday 20th November 09:36
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