Skoda Fabia 2017 Video Review

Andrew Chesterton road tests and reviews the Skoda Fabia Monte Carlo hatch and wagon, with specs fuel consumption and verdict at its Australian launch.

Even the most ardent Australian motorsport fans tend to draw something of blank when it comes to Skoda. The once-Czech, but now VW Group-owned car company is a staggering 121 years old, but with a large chunk of that time spent hidden behind the impenetrable iron curtain of Eastern Europe, its racing history, if not its very existence, is something of a mystery to many Aussies.

Skoda’s latest efforts to change that begin with this, the 2017 Skoda Fabia Monte Carlo, named after one of the world’s most iconic races, the Rallye Monte Carlo – an event Skoda has contested since the late-1930s, and dominated throughout the 1960s, though not in the top-flight division.

Read the full Skoda Fabia Monte Carlo 2017 review.