Rally Discussion and Bar Talk Thread

[Mirek]

Well the VW Polo will probably live until 2030: https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/volksw...pdates-planned

And since the Fabia is on the same platform (& the newer car of the two) it would be safe to assume that it would also live until then. Mind you the Polo got it’s facelift back in April 2021 & the new Fabia was introduced the following month in May 2021, so I think talking about their deaths is premature. Based on that I think the Golf would also live until 2030. Truth is, no one really knows what’s gonna go with the electrification process and how long it will actually take to phase out these cars. Yes, I’m aware by 2035 Europe will stop selling ICE cars but if history has taught us anything time and again is that things can always change, and nothing stays permanent. So even if we think this and that will happen in the future, we’re no fortune tellers and we have no way of actually knowing what will happen in the car industry.

Škoda was selected to be responsible for the ICE cars within VAG in near future (the new Passat was already developed by Škoda as a variant of new Superb) so they will keep producing ICE cars for some time.

Anyway it's no secret that Fabia never was very profitable for Škoda. They always made most of the profit from Octavia and later I believe that Kodiaq must have been a gold mine for them.

@Jarek: Yes, Ford stopped sellling Fiesta in Europe.

I often travel to Bulgaria and it's good to see how EU looks far from Brussels. From what I could see there are virtually no small new cars there. The only new cars I meet there are few big expensive SUVs like Porsche or Mercedes or even some Teslas but all the common people drive old used cars brought from the West.