The New Fabia Estate …
We collected our new car this week! Its a Level 3 New Fabia Estate … We ordered Satin Grey, so its officially registered as grey, though it has a distinct blue hue to it.
The trim levels on the New Fabia are coded by number and not by name as in the past (this confused the guy at the insurance company as he tried to insist it would have a name for the trim level). So level 3 is the “top” trim level, though there a number of options you can get added to that (EPS, type pressure monitors ….).
Having had a three-door Focus before, the car seems narrower from the outside, though I don’t feel like there’s any less space inside the vehicle - the Fabia is technically a “SuperMini”, as opposed to the Focus “Small Family Car”, though those names seem entirely random! Given that my drive is quite narrow, the width of the car is quite important to us!
The level 3 estate comes with front fog-lights as standard, there’s an option for “cornering” head lights, though I’m not entirely clear on what the benefit of that is …
On the photo of the dash interior of the car, you can just about make out the MaxiDot display at the centre of the dash display, currently showing a door open on the vehicle. When driving, it gives feedback about the current fuel consumption, you can switch this to give miles left in the tank, journey time and average speed. It also displays the current radio station. I assume it also gives feedback if a fault occurs, though that is probably combined with a warning light elsewhere on the dash, for example the seat belt warning light comes on if one of the front seats is occupied without the belt plugged in.