Skoda Laura Review

Skoda Laura is beautifully designed luxury car with Pumpe-duse diesel motor which delivers high performance and great efficiency. It gives close to 18 kpl on the highways and 13 kpl in the city, it’s really amazing. Along with performance, it has an excellent build quality, very well designed cabin, full of all latest technology and features. It’s very difficult for me to count Laura features in hand so you better read the following:

Features:

1. Electronic Stability Program
2. ABS & ASR
3. Tyre Pressure monitoring
4. Projector headlamps
5. Curtain airbags
6. Side air bags
7. Dual front air bags
8. Three point rear seatbelts with pretensioners on side seats
9. Height adjustable front seatbelts
10. Front seats with active safety head rests
11. Two isofix child seats fitting on rear seats
12. Front and rear fog lamps
13. safety warning lights on front door panels
14. Driver side mirror with defogger
15. Rear windscreen defogger
16. Central locking remote control key
17. Engine immobilizer
18. Electric sunroof
19. Climatronic dual zone AC
20. Mechanical rear window sunshade
21. CD/MP3 Player
22. Integrated 6 CD changer
23. Multifunctional Leather steering wheel
24. 12 front and rear speakers
25. Electronic adjustable driver seat
26. External mirror with memory function
27. Heated front seats
28. Adjustable front armrest with cooled storage space
29. Folding rear center armrest
30. Height and reach adjustable steering wheel
31. Height adjustable front seats
32. Adjustable lumbar support front seats
33. Electrically adjustable external mirrors
34. Auto dimming rear view mirror
35. Leather Upholstery
36. Front and rear parking sensors
37. Cruise Control
38. Rain sensor with automatic wipers
39. Integrated pop-out headlamp washers
40. Boarding Spots in External Mirrors illuminating the door area
41. Multifunctional Trip indicator
42. Automatic gear box

May be I missed some of them so better run to Skoda showroom and take a test drive. If you have money in your pocket you will buy this car straight away. But wait let me tell you 2 more points - first Skoda service network is not big, so for servicing side you may get some hard time and second point, parts are really expensive and take time to deliver. If something happened to your Laura then there are more chances that it will be in dealers showroom for at least 2-3 weeks, waiting for its parts to be delivered.

Skoda Fabia - Review by CarSingh.com

Let’s talk about a stylish, fuel efficient and of course powerful machine that is running in our bumpy roads and new 4 lanes highway, yes it’s FABIA – Skoda Fabia.





Skoda Fabia got a very classic European look and clearly land in India’s premium hatch back segment. Well shaped headlamps and elegant bonnet designs give a smart look from the front. It also has chunky looking alloy wheels and wider tyres give a sporty look and better road grip. A striking chrome front grille with well designed vertical fins, give a new striking look. High waistline gives a chubby look from the side.




Fabia got an eye catching dual tone interior. Skoda made the interiors that could last longer. New designed multi-texture fabrics on seats and doors add a classy look to the interiors. Fabia is loaded with excellent music system integrated into the dashboard with large graphical display and easy to use buttons. Next to the hand brakes it gives an auxiliary audio input to enjoy the songs from your iPod or other portable audio player. Air-conditioning also works very well and will not let you sweat while driving. In the top model of Fabia (Elegance model) you will also get some additional new features like rear parking sensors with audio and visual warning, electric sunroof, adjustable front armrest with some storage space, a sunglass holder integrated into the roof of car and new projected headlamps. Seriously you can easily see the German touch in this car.




Fabia also has multi-function information display like current time, average fuel consumption, time driven, average speed and outdoor temperature. Another good feature is remote key less entry. This car is really full of so many new features that you expect only on high end cars. Definitely I will miss some features to point out here, you will find more when you feel and drive it.



You can also keep your water bottle or beer can (Please Don’t Drink and Drive) cool inside the illuminated and climate controlled glove box. There is a switch inside glove box that you can turn off if you don’t want cooling. Along with huge leg space in front seats; it also has height adjustable fronts seats. But it works manually, it’s not electrically adjustable. There is enough leg room for the driver and front seat passenger. Sorry for the rear seat passenger, they got little less leg room but that’s what you get in all hatchbacks. Boot space is also huge (300 litres) and you can easily carry your good amount of luggage with you. Rear seat can also split (60:40) and create more space to carry large stuffs. Another good feature is height and reach adjustable of steering wheel which is little small and broad.



Gears are very smooth and for reverse gear you have to push it down and then move it. I drove this car in all road condition and want to thank Skoda for giving us a smooth ride in rough road as well. I should say Skoda understands Indian road condition very well and designed multi link rear suspension very well.

Skoda Fabia is having excellent safety features; like dual front air bags, anti-lock braking system (ABS) that actually prevents wheel lock-up during sudden braking. The best one is Fabia can’t be stolen because no one can make its duplicate key reason it include a unique VIN code.




Let’s come down to main feature that is 1.4 TDI PD Diesel engine. It’s among the one of the most reliable and efficient engines. Actually I drove the Fabia Ambiente (already done 10,000 km) that has 1.4 L, 3 cylinder engine (I don’t know why they are still with 3 cylinder) and it makes little more sounds that you can hear from inside as well. I was able to hear the nice composed sound from engine along with 94.3 FM music. But the mileage wise it’s excellent, it gives close to 16 kpl in city and 20 around in the highway.

With price tag close to 8 lakh on road, it gives you all features that should have in a premium hatchback. So definitely its worth putting that much money on it.



What Skoda can improve: They can use quality plastic material inside, Engine sounds is too much (TDI – Ambiente Variant) - Skoda should look into this issue seriously, should add curtain air-bags (as you can find in i20), steering style and look could be improve (i20 and Jazz having better steering look), and pickup is little slow, add washer for rear wiper.