Category: Superminis 
Price Range: £8,950 to £13,730
Space, ride comfort, value, feels more expensive than it is.
Overlight steering at speed, a little stodgy to drive, underpowered economy-price engines best avoided.
This roomy Czech-built supermini is great value for money without being cheap and nasty.
The Fabia represents very good, if not market-shattering, value while returning a healthy profit for a company that operates in a land of low labour costs. Maybe it should be cheaper, but the pricing is a balance between supply, demand and Skoda's need to kill its cheap'n'crude image.
Demand is high on the used market, from canny would-be VW buyers and the Skoda faithful alike. Used values stay strong, and the dealers are still holding all the best stock, though cheaper-priced higher-mileage examples are starting to appear in the private classified ads.
