I'm of the opinion that VAG cars in general are ruthlessly engineered to maintain the brand hierarchy.Well that was a painful experiment..
Skods has been replaced by a FIAT petrol manual ( with factory cruise )
Skoda still annoys me... only car I remember owning being so poorly suspended cost £220 not Seven grand
Gearbox is nice.. but wont miss the rest.
Supposed to get my £7k back next week..
So there will be an optimum setting for comfort and handling for the Fabia..to get that requires you buy a Polo, there will be an optimum setting for a sporty version...to get that you need to buy an Audi A1. There will be slightly crashy worse version of sporty..to get that you buy the Seat.
Few years ago journos questioned why the VAQ diff in the Octavia was much worse than the one in the Golf, they were assured they were identical except for software mapping. So apparently Skoda didn't just copy paste a program that was already written...they took great time and effort to make it worse.
Social engineering applied to actual engineering. You can bet between the various versions of A1, Fabia, Polo, Ibiza....everything out of sight is identical and made to the same standard. Nice dashboard here and bit more sound proofing and 4 rings on the front there and 15k car becomes a 25k car.
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