Skoda Fabia 2018: Little Czech without diesel

The Skoda Fabia compact car is only available in the 2018 model year without diesel. This is the first time a brand from the VW Group has announced the move away from the self-ignition. The reason for the fact that the little Czech is now only supplied with Otto engines is, of course, the dear money.

The exhaust gas purification for the Škoda Fabia TDI will obviously be too expensive for the corporate forces in Wolfsburg and Mladá Boleslav, so the small Czechs in 2018 will still be without diesel. As a result, the VW subsidiary of VW is the first brand in the company to come under the theme "diesel engine". And the withdrawal is to apply both to the complete Fabia model series, as the Handelsblatt, referring to brand boss Bernhard Maier reported, as well as not only for individual European markets, but in general apply.

As the exhaust emission limit values ​​will become much more stringent in the future, financial reasons will make it necessary to forego the auto-ignition in the portfolio. The Group, for example, uses so-called SCR catalysts in the diesel Polo, a sister model of the Fabia. An ammonia-containing liquid ("AdBlue") is injected there in order to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions. This reduces the pollutant emissions, but this method is also much more expensive, so that a petrol engine comparable in performance already costs around 2,000 euros more than its diesel counterpart.

A distance that would be further increased by the much more complex exhaust gas purification, especially since the small Czech is still based on the old PQ platform and would have to be retrofitted for the installation of the SCR system. Thus, in the new model year, the two diesel units with 99 and 105 HP are gone, so that then probably only three petrol engines will be on offer.

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Skoda Fabia 2018: Little Czech without diesel 2017-09-19T07:08:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Bolets