Skoda rally car
All-new Fabia rally car spied blasting around the French hills
evo stumbled across this while up in the hills in the South of France last week: an all-new Skodia Fabia rally car undergoing some tarmac testing, piloted by none other than tarmac specialist Gilles Panizzi. Little is known about the car, other than it is the first time Skoda is campaigning a second-gen Fabia hatchback in rally livery.
The car looks rather like this, a rally prototype that seemed to point towards a road-going Fabia vRS. No such model yet, sadly, but if it takes any inspiration from the hairpin-bashing car we spotted, evo approves.
Panizzi is a spot-on choice for testing the wee Fabia, the French driver having claimed several WRC victories on tarmac in a Peugeot 206. He and his co-driver brother Herve also campaigned for Mitsubishi several years ago.
You can see a video of the Fabia in action here.
