Ibiza New Seat Ibiza Revealed


The SEAT Ibiza is a supermini car that has been manufactured by Spanish car manufacturer SEAT since 1984. It is SEAT's best-selling car. Production: 1984-

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All new from the wheels up, the fourth generation Seat Ibiza is the work of ex-Lamborghini stylist Luc Donckerwolke. Seat sees the new Ibiza as the most important new model in its recent history. The new Seat Ibiza will kick off Seat's product offensive, among which further Ibiza variants and the long awaited new upper-medium segment saloon and estate based on the previous generation Audi A4.

The new Seat Ibiza hopes to reinforce its position as a leader in the supermini segment with a bigger and better new generation model. The five-door hatchback comes with 'big-car' options like seven-speed DSG automatic/sequential manual gearbox, Hill Hold Assist and front fog lights with side illumination function.

The new Ibiza has grown in size and now measures 4.05 meters in length (versus 3.97 meters previously) with a 292 liter boot space with the rear seats in place. Width has grown too, thanks to its Agile Chassis the front and rear tracks are 30 mm and 33 mm wider respectively.

The front wheel drive car comes with a choice of 1.2 liter three cylinder 70hp petrol engine, 1.4 liter four cylinder 85 hp petrol engine or 1.6 liter four cylinder petrol engine producing 102 hp. All three engines are paired with a 5 speed manual gearbox. Seat has established itself in the diesel market and will in due course offer its sporty diesel engines on its supermini too.

Seat UK Peter Wyhinny commented: “The debut of the spectacular new Ibiza is the clearest sign yet that SEAT is serious about putting enviable quality and state-of-the-art technology alongside sporting ‘auto emoción’ as the cornerstones of the Brand. With the debut of this distinctive and clearly design-led five-door we are embarking on a major development of the SEAT range, with plenty more to come in the months ahead!”


Source: SEAT via WCF
New Seat Ibiza Revealed
 
I didn't knew Luc Donkerthing suffered from epilepsy...He was in a deep crisis when designing it, and the pen did a lot of uncontrolled moves...

Seriously, all these lines and creases, the two creases in the side, it's much too much. It's awful, I don't like it at all.

The shape is not very exciting, neither is the front, and he tried to hide it by using as many design lines as possible. it looks like several cars glued together. There is no line the eye can follow.

I am trying to rest my eyes right now, after a failed attempt to look at the whole car.
 
What a disaster, it has more random lines, curves, concave and convex surfaces than the BMW Z4. I know the Mazda 2 is a smaller car with slightly different proportions, but if you want a tallish 5 door hatch, Seat designers should have used the Mazda 2 as an example. The Mazda has similar sharp crease lines and "flame surfacing" but it is a whole lot more coherent.
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it really is a disaster, especially compared to the rather cool and sporty looking Leon...

The interior seems to have blueish hard plastic...and cheap black plastic everywhere else...

From the side, it really looks like two cars glued together. It's absolutely horrible. What were they drinking?
 
it really is a disaster, especially compared to the rather cool and sporty looking Leon...

The interior seems to have blueish hard plastic...and cheap black plastic everywhere else...

From the side, it really looks like two cars glued together. It's absolutely horrible. What were they drinking?

The interior styling looks very 1990s to me, especially with the design of the lower half of the dash.

The car looks better in those real life photos, but I still don't like it at all. They are probably smoking as well as drinking at the same time.
 
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The interior looks like a mix of Seicento, Punto and Twingo I.

Funny: look at the door handles in this pic... :t-crazy2:
It's priceless! I've never seen anything like that in any recent car!!!:t-hair:



You know what? I think Luc Donkerthing did not want to design it. He wanted to design only Lambos, Lambos and Lambos. So he thought designing a Seat could jeopardize the purity of his mind, only devoted to Lamborghini, so in fact he asked to the first man he saw to design it.

Unfortunately he did not notice this first man was in fact an orangutan that just flew out of his zoo. He gave him a pen and some paper and moved on.

The poor monkey tryed to eat the pen, found it smells disgusting and began to move it on the sheet of paper with the wrong side, and soon he was bored and left to the rue Morgue.

Luc came back, took the paper without looking at it, and here is the result...
 
Funny: look at the door handles in this pic... :t-crazy2:
It's priceless! I've never seen anything like that in any recent car!!!:t-hair:
Why didn't they just hide the rear door handles in the rear side window, like they did with the Leon. OMG, what a mess!:t-banghea
 
luc d. seems to like to provoc, maybe its one of these cars that you have to get used to, to love it
 

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SEAT S.A. (Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo lit. 'Spanish Touring Automobiles Company') is a Spanish car manufacturer, that sells its vehicles under the SEAT and Cupra brands. Founded on 9 May 1950, and after being listed as an independent automaker for 36 years, the Spanish government sold SEAT to the Volkswagen Group in 1986, and it remains a fully owned subsidiary of the Group. The headquarters of SEAT S.A. is situated in Martorell near Barcelona at the company's industrial complex.
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