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Engine range confirmed for third-gen Skoda Fabia

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Author: | Updated: 08 Aug 2014 11:19

Skoda’s third generation Fabia will be available with a choice of four petrol and three diesel engines when it goes on UK sale early 2015.

The Czech carmaker says the supermini will use up to 17% less fuel than its predecessor, making it the most fuel efficient Fabia yet.

The third gen Skoda Fabia will go into production near Prague late August

All seven engines will be Euro6-compliant with stop/start and kinetic energy recuperation as standard.

A new three-pot 1.4 TDI with outputs varying between 73bhp and 103bhp will make up the Fabia’s diesel offeringPetrol options will consist of a three-cylinder 1.0 MPI with 60bhp and a four-pot 1.2 TSI with 110bhp.

A new three-pot 1.4 TDI [pictured] with outputs varying between 73bhp and 103bhp will make up the Fabia’s diesel offering.

An even-more fuel-sipping Greenline version of the 1.4 TDI will arrive before the end of 2015 with a combined fuel consumption of 91mpg and 82g/km CO2 emissions. That’s an improvement of 8mpg and 6g/km on the preceding Fabia Greenline which will see it outgreen Toyota’s Yaris Hybrid Excel (76mpg, 82g/km).

Weight-shaving measures have also seen the Fabia’s kerb weight sink by 40kg to just under one tonne (980kg).

Read our review of the current Fabia Monte Carlo

Production of the new Fabia is expected to be commence before the end of August at Skoda’s Mladá Boleslav base near Prague.

Contrary to widespread assumptions, the new Fabia will not sit on the MQB platform – the underpinnings for 2013’s Octavia, VW Golf and Seat Leon. It is now understood that Fabia MK3 will retain the same underpinnings of the second gen car, used in the fourth gen VW Polo from 2002-2009.

The new Skoda Fabia will receive its world premiere at the Paris Motor Show on October 2.

This is the most revealing sketch of the third gen Fabia released by Skoda so far

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