Bounce Magazine March 2015

BUSINESS
MARCH 2015 | ISSUE #29
scooping the gong for Best Family Car.
Director of ŠKODA UK, Alasdair Stewart, said:
‘We are delighted to receive these accolades from
What Car?. UK customers trust What Car? when
they are buying a new vehicle, and winning the
Car of the Year award is the perfect introduction
to the UK for the
new Fabia.
new Fabia. It not only introduces
innovative safety
features, but
it’s stylish on
the outside,
with a lower-slung,
more sporty
feel, while the
inside has been
completely
redesigned for maximum comfort.
‘What’s particularly impressive about it is
that it doesn’t do this at the expense of features.
It has a superb infotainment system, gives you
keyless entry and front and rear parking sensors,
and features a new generation aircon system.
‘The What Car? awards recognise that ŠKODA
hasn’t compromised on any aspect of the car.’
The new Fabia is also more spacious and 17%
more fuel-efficient than its predecessor, thanks
to significant weight savings and the
introduction of cleaner EU6-compliant
engines.
‘These awards are just the start of an exciting
year for ŠKODA – the new Fabia Estate will be
here in March, and the new Superb will be on the
roads in September. The buying experience is
also going to be better than ever, thanks to our
retailers transforming their showrooms,
with a more customer-friendly new
look.’
The new ŠKODA Fabia – which was
revealed to the public at the Paris
Motor Show last October – is the third
generation of ŠKODA’s popular small
car. Since the first-generation Fabia
went on sale in 2000, some 250,000
have been bought in the UK, with 3.5
million sold worldwide.
ŠKODA has demonstrated five years of record
growth, culminating in sales of 76,027 cars in the
UK last year (10,000 more than in 2013), and over
one million cars worldwide in the same period.
It joins an impressive line-up
of new ŠKODA vehicles,
including the Octavia,
which was also
recognised at the
What Car?
awards,
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