Next-gen Skoda Fabia wagon canned
Fabia Combi culled in bid to refocus on Czech brand's expansion into EVsPlans to produce a wagon version of the all-new fourth-generation Skoda Fabia hatch have been axed just months after the Czech car-maker announced the new-generation Combi derivative would be on sale within two years.
As recently as March 2021, Skoda CEO Thomas Schaefer confirmed the more practical new Fabia Combi would be built at the company's Kvasiny plant in the Czech Republic, ahead of first deliveries in 2023.
Contradicting that announcement, a new statement by Skoda says the existing third-generation Fabia wagon will be the last, with the Fabia Combi axed due to stricter upcoming European fleet-average CO2 emissions laws and the fact that three new Skoda EVs are set to be introduced by 2030.
"The European Commission’s recent decision to reduce the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions by 55 per cent by 2030 is accelerating the transformation from the internal combustion engine to the e-car,” said Skoda.
"However, this also means we will be discontinuing some ICE products more quickly, particularly against the backdrop of increasingly stringent emissions legislation in Europe [Euro 7], compliance with which is associated with very high costs. Following this decision, there will be no successor to the Fabia estate."
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