Photo: Carlex Design
Carlex Design says you will never look at the Skoda Fabia the same again after you've seen what they've done to it. But we'd argue that nobody looks at the Fabia anyway.
While Carlex started off with really cool projects like a steampunk MINI or a Rolls-Royce steering wheel covered in a million layers of lacquer, I don't think you can use superlatives for most of what they're doing nowadays. It's just you usual custom leatherwork.
But nobody in their right mind would ever pay for a custom interior in the Skoda Fabia. This is the poorer relation of the VW Polo, not to mention you can't get the RS model anymore. A maximum of 110 PS hardly inspires spirited driving either.
For whatever reason, Carlex chose a combination of orange and black leather, even though none are natural colors for the Fabia. The steering wheel is the most intricate piece, as both its rim and the middle cap have been wrapped and accentuated with orange stitching.
Skoda made a piece of shiny black plastic the focal point of its interior. However, it now looks cheap, surrounded by bright orange and a leather glove box you might not even see on a Porsche.
As for the seats, they started off as the optional sports ones with integrated headrests. However, Carlex played with the padding and worked a perforated pattern into the bottoms. I love the perforated steering wheel on the Octavia RS, and I would have loved to see the same thing here. However, I'll have to make due with the wrapped handbrake and gear shifter.
There are many departments in which this custom Fabia puzzles me. For example, it has a matching leather bag, but the headliner is stock, and the air conditioning is a manual one. The interior would have looked far more premium with those two things taken care of. But why buy this and not an Audi A1 or a MINI?
But nobody in their right mind would ever pay for a custom interior in the Skoda Fabia. This is the poorer relation of the VW Polo, not to mention you can't get the RS model anymore. A maximum of 110 PS hardly inspires spirited driving either.
For whatever reason, Carlex chose a combination of orange and black leather, even though none are natural colors for the Fabia. The steering wheel is the most intricate piece, as both its rim and the middle cap have been wrapped and accentuated with orange stitching.
Skoda made a piece of shiny black plastic the focal point of its interior. However, it now looks cheap, surrounded by bright orange and a leather glove box you might not even see on a Porsche.
As for the seats, they started off as the optional sports ones with integrated headrests. However, Carlex played with the padding and worked a perforated pattern into the bottoms. I love the perforated steering wheel on the Octavia RS, and I would have loved to see the same thing here. However, I'll have to make due with the wrapped handbrake and gear shifter.
There are many departments in which this custom Fabia puzzles me. For example, it has a matching leather bag, but the headliner is stock, and the air conditioning is a manual one. The interior would have looked far more premium with those two things taken care of. But why buy this and not an Audi A1 or a MINI?
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