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2016 Skoda Fabia Color Editions Arrive with Black Wheels, Awesome Paint

When I tested the Skoda Fabia about a year ago, I called it the Czech lemonade because they gave me a bright yellow one with plenty of contrasting elements. For a Skoda, that's outrageously brilliant, I thought. But I was wrong as the supermini just received even zestier tones.
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The Citigo and Fabia are now available as "Color Edition" models. Because there's a facelift for the UP!, the Citigo seems dull to me, so I'm just going to focus on its big brother.

Customers can choose between six eye-catching color combinations - preselected to highlight the Fabia’s acclaimed exterior design. These include Candy White+Black accents, Race Blue with white or black accents, Black Magic, and our favorite, Rallye Green Metallic. Unless we are mistaken, that's an Octavia RS color and you'd be an idiot not to have it with black wheels.

Besides contrasting colors for the roof, door mirrors and 16-inch "Beam" alloy wheels, all models feature LED daytime running lights and cruise control as standard.

Skoda treats this as a separate trim level that adds £1,045 worth of kit to the SE but costs just £540 more, giving customers a saving of £505.

Available right now, the Fabia Color can be ordered with two engine options - 1.0 MPI 75PS or 1.2 TSI 90PS. The former is priced from £13,360, while the latter starts at £13,990. On paper, there's only 15 horsepower between them, but we'd never buy the basic non-turbo engine because it's gutless and doesn't offer any real benefits.

A quick word about the all-new Fabia before we go? Sure, why not. The model is much wider than the previous one, yet the overall proportions are nearly identical to the VW Polo. Like its German counterpart, it suffers from a jumpy suspension system at low speeds that becomes acceptable the faster you go.

While it's not as fun as the Ford Fiesta and has no sports version, the Fabia is worth looking into for its clean design and the fact that it has the most practicality in this class. There are seven places to store bottles inside the cabin, ample headroom for all passengers and the biggest boot in the class despite the full spare wheel.
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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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