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Friday, March 19th 2010

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SEAT Fleet Sales Team Strengthened With New Addition

SEAT’s increasingly successful Fleet and Business Sales team has signed up Kellie Lee to join fellow Area Fleet Sales Managers Barbara O’Neill-Joyce, Pippa Benham and Yulia Eaton in reporting to recently-appointed National Sales Manager Sally Livingstone. Kellie joins the burgeoning fleet and business sales operation from Huddersfield SEAT, where she set up what has become a [...]

SEAT Ibiza Bocanegra road test

A compact, small hatch packing 178bhp and an F1-style paddle shift DSG gearbox should be about as exciting as pocket rocket hot hatches get. Yet, somehow, the Seat Ibiza Bocanegra just doesn’t manage to ignite keen drivers’ passions in the way previous quick Ibizas have. The 1.4-litre turbo- and supercharged engine produces more than [...]

SEAT Altea 2009 SE 1.4 TSI road test

The SEAT Altea is a true chimera of the car world – part hatchback, part family car, part MPV. Trying to neatly pigeon hole the Altea is a difficult thing indeed – it is a multi-function five-door small family car, yet has enough room to seat five, and still comes with that flair and [...]

SEAT and Shakira sign collaboration agreement

SEAT and Shakira have signed a collaboration agreement which sees the sporty Spanish car manufacturer become the main sponsor of the international pop star’s forthcoming European tour. This agreement will link the young, sporty image of the SEAT brand to the musical talent of Shakira, currently enjoying great success with her latest album She Wolf.The Colombian-born [...]

SEAT focus on the fleet and business sales sector

SEAT’s fleet sales site at www.seat.co.uk/businesssales recently scooped the title of ‘Most Improved Website’ in the prestigious BusinessCar fleet website survey, winning praise for its clever tax calculator that allows comparison between models and its downloadable brochures. SEAT has now further enhanced the site as the Brand looks to underline precisely why business drivers should be [...]

SEAT Exeo ST 2.0 Sport TDI 170PS road test

The Exeo is SEAT’s flagship model and the new Exeo ST (Sport Tourer) is the estate version of the mid-sized saloon. With prices starting at £19,155, the Exeo ST is based on the Audi A4, although equivalent A4 Avants cost over £4,000 more. The new ST also heralds improved safety and comfort for the [...]

SEAT Exeo ST 2.0 TDi 143 road test

Associations with Audi will do the Seat Exeo no harm when it comes to used values and the extremely keen pricing of this Seat estate also make it a very attractive choice. Company car drivers will no doubt be pleased to see emissions of 143g/km for all versions with the 2.0-litre turbodiesel engine, which [...]

SEAT Altea Sport 2.0 TDI CR manual road test

Launched back in 2004, the Altea was SEAT’s fresh take on the small family MPV. With innovative styling and a slightly sporting demeanour it was heralded as being more than ‘just a family workhorse’. The Altea has now been treated to a refreshed exterior and interior with new engine options. SEAT Altea consumer car reviewsSEAT [...]

SEAT Leon FR 2.0 TSI DSG road test

Sitting just below the range-topping 150+mph Cupra in SEAT’s extensive Leon line-up is the almost-as-sporty FR model. The FR costs a little less, and it isn’t quite as blindingly quick, but this particular hot hatch offers more than enough power and pizzazz for all but the most hard-core of speed freaks. SEAT Leon consumer car [...]

Jaime Alguersuari becomes ambassador for SEAT

Teenage Formula One driving sensation Jaime Alguersuari has been named a SEAT ambassador in a deal that sees the Spanish brand provide him with a very special model, a stunning new Leon Cupra R, to use when not driving his competition car. A special event at SEAT’s modern Martorell factory saw Alguersuari receive the keys to [...]

SEAT celebrates launch by donating £500 to Birmingham Hospice

A new SEAT car dealership has celebrated its launch by donating £500 to a Birmingham Hospice. Central SEAT and Skoda of Birmingham made the donation to the nearby John Taylor Hospice. The Company previously sold only Skoda cars but has now added the SEAT range to the choice of models available. The latest donation brings [...]

Encourage your kids to drive without a licence

You’ve been their personal taxi service for years – now this Christmas you can give your kids the perfect start towards getting their own driving licence. The SEAT Young Driver gets children as young as 11 behind the wheel, with the aim of making them safer drivers when they are old enough to hit the roads [...]

SEAT Back ‘Young Driver’ Programme To Address Needless Teenage Road Accidents

SEAT are backing the ‘Young Driver’ training programme, launching this month at Birmingham’s NEC, which will see children as young as 11 years old being offered driving lessons in a controversial bid to quell the shocking toll of teenage road accidents with Government research showing that drivers aged under 20 are nearly 12 times more [...]

SEAT Ibiza Ecomotive sets new economy record

The SEAT Ibiza Ecomotive has clocked up an average fuel economy of more than 120 miles to the gallon on a 1,186-mile tour of 12 European countries. Austrian long-haul and economy driving specialist Gerhard Plattner set the new record of 120.4 mpg at the wheel of the supermini.  His latest feat follows a debut drive back [...]

SEAT Ibiza Ecomotive 2009 road test

The Ibiza Ecomotive uses the same 1.4-litre turbodiesel engine as other cars in Seat’s supermini range, but a few key tweaks turn this model into an economy and emissions champion. A revised ECU electronic brain for the engine helps reduce emissions to 98g/km for both the three- and five-door models to qualify for free [...]

Future Fleet Star – SEAT Exeo

In our latest look at the cars which you should be considering as part of you fleet, we take a peep at the SEAT Exeo, the Spanish manufacturer’s recent forage into the ultra competitive, and mainstay of UK fleets, the compact executive/family sized car – also known as the D-segment. One of the biggest challenges to [...]

SEAT Exeo 2.0 TDI CR 143 PS SE road test

Fellow VW Group manufacturer Audi provided a sound base for the latest Spanish model, enabling SEAT to take its first steps into the family car market. It’s feasible however that buying a second-hand Audi A4, the car on which the Exeo is based, would be a better proposition. There are three turbocharged engines – one [...]

SEAT celebrates bumper May

SEAT is celebrating a brace of sales records, as the Spanish brand’s used car success continues to go from strength to strength. The latest figures show SEAT UK Used Cars enjoyed a bumper sales spree last month, notching up no fewer than 915 vehicles in May – smashing the previous best by some distance and setting [...]

Nick Andrews heads SEAT fleet sales

SEAT UK is today appointing Nick Andrews as its new Head of Fleet and Business Sales. Nick, 40, was formerly National Fleet Sales Manager at Audi UK, and boasts an extensive fleet, business and leasing background stretching back almost 20 years. His move to the Spanish Brand is perfectly timed, coinciding as it does with the imminent [...]

Seat Opens The New Year With Stunning Offers

Spanish car maker SEAT is starting 2009 with a host of stunning offers. For a limited time only the Leon Stylance 1.9 TDI 105 PS, for instance, is offered at £13,220 RRP – down from the previous price of £15,220 thanks to the dramatic £2,000 Revolution concession.According to SEAT when compared with typical competitors such [...]

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