Skoda Unveils Open-Top Fabia


Skoda has unveiled a dramatic open-top roadster version of its Fabia vRS S2000 rally car at Volkswagen Group�s GTI-Treffen tuning event in Worthersee.
 
The one-off Skoda Fabia vRS S2000 design concept car has been designed and built specifically for the annual show. Skoda CEO Winfried Vahland told Autocar that the hand-built roadster had been created to �show what the company can do with a Fabia�.
 
Designers were briefed to �create an original roadster pursuing a single goal � dynamism and the joy of sporting driving�.
 
Power for the all-wheel drive roadster comes from a twin-turbocharged four-cylinder 2.0-litre petrol engine that produces �over 200bhp�. It weighs around 1200kg and the tracks have been widened in excess of 120mm.
 
The concept gets a shallow-raked windscreen, which Skoda says allows the occupants of the car �to be at one with nature�. Despite losing its roof, there is room for four inside the Fabia vRS S2000.
 
It is finished in the same green colour as the road-going Fabia vRS. Design modifications include new bonnet scoops for extra cooling, flared wheel arches with cooling ducts, 18-inch white allow wheels, a rear diffuser and side skirts.
 
Inside, the dashboard is trimmed with carbonfibre and the material is also used for the door inserts. Front passengers sit in green-piped sports bucket seats with four-point harnesses.

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