Skoda was one of the few competitors in Europe that offered a station wagon for its small-class segment comptitor, the Fabia, and in 2018 it introduced a facelift for it.

The third generation of the Skoda Fabia Combi (station-wagon) was released just a few weeks after the Skoda Fabia hatchback. The small, Czech, station-wagon was the most popular car in its segment.

In the middle of the world financial crisis, Skoda had to refresh the Fabia lineup and kept its engine running while other big brands were collapsing.

Skoda introduced the Fabia in 1999 at the Frankfurt Motor Show. It shared its platform with the Seat Ibiza and the Volkswagen Polo Mk IV. In the following year, the Czech carmaker introduced the station-wagon version.