The S is designed to handle the twisties.

But as a traffic light hero, modest family hatches can keep up.

 

Ahhh but is that a reflection on your confidence and or ability or the cars?

 

Possibly confidence to be honest but with the S, the back end can let go alot more easy and the golf would stay planted.



Not to most peoples taste but i absolutely loved that car but it had to go when i got the S bug.

 

I have an oil burner chipped to 250bhp (allegedly).

There is no way it would get near a well driven S kept in vtec.

Sure it would trounce an S in accelerating from 70 in 6th gear or some silly contest like that.

 

I just answer "On which track?"

And qualify it with "Shall we book onto the track day then?"

And try not to fall asleep whilest they make excuses, normally not having any money/holiday/intelligence/blah.

 

But not a chipped Fabia !

9.5 to 60 'ish standard even when remapped doesn't become under 6

But, as has been said, in reality WGAF

 

Steve, could have been in the operator 'camp'

 

Says it all

 

You are either going faster in your S than you think and/or your geo and/or tyres are shite, basically!

 

I had a Fabia vRS. I bought the nasty piece of sh1t as a work beater. Picked it up on a Friday and it went up for sale the following Monday. It was, without question, the lousiest car I have ever driven.

Although mine was standard and I'm no engineer, I'm confident that no amount of suspension work could have changed the fact that the Fabia was too narrow, too tall, too heavy and too numb to ever be a trully good handling or satisfying car. When I made the point to other owners, their response was "well, it's a Skoda, it's not supossed to be a hot hatch". That point never came across in the brochure strangely enough!

As for performance, I agree with the comments elsewhere in the thread, you're not going to take 3.5s out of the 0-60 with a 180bhp chip. Sure, once you're up and running the differences are harder to detect, but the narrow rev range does nothing for performance. Big capacity diesels will leave you for dead on a motorway, but I've never been embarassed by them elsewhere, so a 1.9tdi made up of a bunch of old VW reject parts isn't going to put up too much of fight, is it?

This is all accademic anyway - I don't much care how quick a car is as long as it feels right. Sitting in the Fabia's 3rd world interior (and mine had leather FFS) as it wobbled and wallowed it's miserable way along definitely didn't.

Oh hell! Sounds like my scars haven't healed yet, doesn't it?...........