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Seat toledo

Seat toledo
Anything but another formula vehicle, the SEAT Toledo redefines the modern face of the classic family vehicle.Combining SEAT Athletic Technique and Unconventional Design with unprecedented levels of spaciousness and functionality, this groundbreaking vehicle marks new milestones for SEAT - the 3rd generation Toledo while offering enough freedom, performance and personal expression for any driving lifestyle.
The Toledo is a hatchback based on an MPV that's trying to be a saloon. Confused? You should be. Replacing the old four-door Golf-based Toledo was clearly not high on Seat's priorities, so instead of developing a bespoke model, it's merely grafted a longer bootlid onto the existing Altea mini-MPV, to create 'a saloon with a difference'. The difference being that it's a hatchback! However, get past the marketing hype and you'll discover it's actually a good car. Just like the Altea, there's plenty of room and comfort inside for five, the Touran-derived platform providing an abundance of height, practicality and ease of access. The dash is driver-centred and smart too, and Sport variants have wonderful high-backed seats. Equipment levels are generous with all offering air con and CD player.

Seat altea

Seat altea
SEAT (Sociedad Espanola de Automotives de Turismo) was founded in 1950 by the Spanish government and for many years its models were lightly modified Fiats. Fiat and Seat split in 1980 and Volkswagen moved in, taking ownership in 1986. After plugging on through the 1980 and in the early 1990s with a re-designed Fiat Panda and the first Ibiza superminis, Seat started work with VW on all new models. The first was the Toledo hatchback (based on the Mark 2 Golf) and the second the new Ibiza supermini, which was based on the all new VW Polo platform. Seat was beginning to establish its own character. Italdesign was still responsible for the styling and had developed a distinctive theme. Seat also developed a reputation for its sporty and capable chassis tuning. Then SEAT boss Bernd Pischetsrider unceremoniously dumped this approach in 2000. Working with designer Walter de’silva, Pischetsrider unveiled the dramatic, low roof, one box Salsa concept at the Paris motor show, which he said represented the future of the brand.
The first incarnation was the Altea, a five door, high roof vehicle based on the excellent Golf MK 5 chassis. It was not a huge success, partly because it offered less boot space than the real MPVs it resembled. The company than added an Altea with a conventional boot grafted onto grafted the tail, followed by an ultra spacious long wheel base version. Seat’s carefully matured image had been badly damaged by the stylistic diversion. Seat hit reverse and was readying new, more conventional models for launch in 2009 and beyond.

Seat ibiza

Seat ibiza
The Seat Ibiza is a car in the European supermini class, constructed by the Spanish car maker Seat S.A., is Seat's best-selling car and perhaps the most popular model in the Spanish firm's range.The name Ibiza itself comes from the Spanish island of Ibiza, and its use in Seat's supermini car inaugurated the firm's new nomenclature in naming models after Spanish locations.It was introduced in the 1984 Paris Motor Show as the first car developed by Seat as an independent company, though it was designed by seat S.A. in collaboration with well-known firms such as Italdesign, Karmann and Porsche. From the Mk2 version onwards, the Seat company formed part of the German automotive industry concern Volkswagen Group, and all further Ibiza generations, like the rest of the Seat model range, have been built on Volkswagen Group platforms, parts and technologies.

Seat Leon

Seat Leon
Seat Leon with a new offer structure Seat increases the model range of the Leon FR models and continues to revalue to model year 2012 besides the entire Leon series. Thus the Seat Media system 2,2 offers. language control now for Bluetooth devices; in connection with Bi-xenon-headlights gets the sportily elegant Leon Style rear lights in LED technology, which are blocked in series with the FR as well as CUPRA R models.
The equipment lines sport and Cupra been void, in response the engine pallet for the FR-models (Formula Racing) is extended on two Diesel and three gasoline aggregates in an achievement output of 125 HP up to 211 HP.The current Leon program covers five equipment lines: Leon (Leon 1,4 starting from 14,990 euros), Reference, Style, FR and CUPRA R. Now 125 HP strong 1,4 TSI offer the entrance into the pallet of the Leon FR to the list price of 21,990 euros. For the next stronger Benziner, the 1,8 TSI with 160 HP, Seat a 6-Gang-Schaltgetriebe as well as a 7-Stufen-DSG in the offer has.
The Topmotorisierung of the Leon FR models, the 2,0 TSI, carries 211 HP out and is likewise available with 6-Gang-Handschaltgetriebe or a 6-Stufen-DSG. There are the 2,0 TDI CR now for the Leon FR in the performance levels with 140 and 170 HP; in each case with manual transmission or 6-Stufen-DSG.
The Leon FR of vehicles differs already at first sight of the other models of the series: Like that for example bumpers and double exhaust final pipe are in the specific FR-Design arranged and the outside mirror housings in the color „PlataR “painted. The FR-models are equipped in series with 17-Zoll-Leichtmetallrädern and tire of the size of 225/45 R 17. For 2.0 TSI and 170-PS-Common-Rail-TDI there is ex factory to 18-Zoll-Leichtmetallräder and tire in the format 225/40 R 18.

Seat cupra

Seat cupra
Now the phrase Seat Cupra gets a bit renewed sense - it is not those cars Seat, which simply reported to the state sports car, but hatchbacks remain standard. Now it is full of nothing not the reworked model sports car Seat. Now Seat accurately reflect its name - Cupra: Cup Racing Furthermore, Seat Cupra is the most awaited project - it must be the most powerful and fastest car in the history of Car Seat. This car Seat, which was shown at a motor show in Barcelona is a real sportprototip, which is primarily intended for use in racing applications. It is possible that this car Seat camp leader group as a whole. This sports car Seat brainchild units Seat Sport and the Center of Style, which is located in the resort town of Sitges. Touching the head of the Center Walter da Silva felt in every line of mid-engine coupe. We see that the cuprates have tried to give something more than good aerodynamics. In lines sportprototipa read the motives of recent concept cars Seat - Salsa and Tango. This "hook-nosed" front end, the pull-down belt line, piercing air inlets behind the doors. On the race mission Coupe Seat Cupra eloquently points out the diffuser under the rear overhang and a huge wing on the cover of the engine compartment. There, under the canopy of the rear window is hidden "flaming heart" fiery-red coupe - a three-liter engine Seat V6 c twin-turbo, borrowed from the racing team Audi. Application Boost brought the power of the six to 500 hp Its torque - the maximum reaching 600 Nm - to the rear wheels through a sequential six-speed gearbox. Estimated plant specialists Seat, acceleration to 100 km / h should take a prototype about 4.2 seconds. In addition to accelerating the dynamics of good for race car is just as important dynamic braking. Befit characteristics provide 378-mm ventilated discs front Seat and 355-mm - rear, working in tandem with calipers AP Racing. Fishnet 18-inch wheels of a car Seat with mounting the central nut hung double wishbone and damper Ohlins. All of this product design and engineering is collected on a tubular space frame and is capable of moving through space at speeds up to 295 km / h. It is very possible that sooner or later we will wait for release of road version the first Spanish supercar seat.

Seat

Seat
Seat today is the only major Spanish car manufacturer with the ability and the infrastructure to develop its own cars in-house.Its headquarters and main manufacturing facilities are located in Martorell, an industrial town located some 30 kilometres northwest of Barcelona,with a production capacity of around 500,000 units per annum. The plant was opened by King Juan Carlos of Spain on February 22, 1993, and replaced Seat's former assembly plant by the coast in Barcelona's freeport zone (Zona Franca). A rail connection between Seat's Martorell and Zona Franca complexes facilitates vehicle and parts transportation between the two sites.
The industrial complex in Martorell also hosts the facilities of Seat Sport, Seat's Technical Center, Research and Development Center (R&D), Design Center,Prototypes Centre of Development,  Service Center (also incorporating the After-Sales Service division, the Customer Services division and the Catalunya Motor dealership),as well as the Genuine Parts Centre for SEAT, Volkswagen, Audi and Škoda brands.
The development and assembly facilities are some of the newest and most modern and efficient within the Volkswagen Group, giving the  Martorell site the ability to produce high-quality cars[20] not only for its own brand but also for other Volkswagen Group brands, such as Volkswagen and Audi.For example, the development and design of several Audi models (e.g. the Audi A1,the Audi A3 Sportback,the Audi Q5 etc.) and also several Audi development projects took place there,and from 2011 onwards the Martorell plant will manufacture the Audi Q3 small SUV.
The Barcelona Zona Franca site includes the Seat Training Centre, the Zona Franca Press Shop factory, producing stamped body parts, and the Barcelona Gearbox del Prat plant, producing gearboxes not only for Seat but also for other Volkswagen Group marques (VW, Audi and Škoda);the latter plant was awarded the Volkswagen Excellence Award in 2009 by the Volkswagen Group for high-quality production process and product.Another plant owned directly by Seat from 1975 was the Landaben plant in Pamplona, but on December 1993 its ownership was transferred to the Volkswagen Group subsidiary "Volkswagen-Audi-Espana, S.A.", and the site today is producing Volkswagen cars in Spain.However, Martorell site still provides support to Volkswagen's operations in the Pamplona plant when necessary, as it did after a serious fire in the paint shop in the Landaben VW plant in April 2007.
Factories of the Volkswagen Group currently producing Seat  models also include the Palmela AutoEuropa site in Portugal,[4] while in the past other plants were involved too in producing Seat models, such as the factories in Germany (Wolfsburg), Belgium (Brussels) and Slovakia (Bratislava).Future plans include a new Research and development (R&D) centre in the city of Barcelona in the field of environmental and energy efficiency for the entire Volkswagen Group and also the launch of a project on the city's urban mobility,[33] as well as a Seat museum in the Zona Franca's 'Nave A122' site hosting all production and prototype models ever presented  together with some special or limited edition vehicles with historical value for the brand and the automotive history of Spain.Among Seat's subsidiaries, the Deutschland GmbH subsidiary company is based in Mörfelden-Walldorf, Germany, and apart from its commercial activities has the further responsibility of operating Seat's electronic platform, the IT Services Network. In Wolfsburg, Germany, in the middle of a lake inside the Autostadt, the Volkswagen Group's corporate theme park, is Seat's thematic pavilion, one of the largest pavilions in the park.
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