LAST AUTO NEWS – SPANISH SHOW DEBUTS FOR SIZZLING SEAT DUO
Last Auto account – Spanish appearance debuts for baking SEAT duo Ibiza FR to admission with new Leon Cupra.
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The calefaction is on at SEAT. Bosses at the Spanish close accept appear they will bare ablaze achievement versions of the Ibiza supermini and Leon bear at next month’s Barcelona Motor Show.
The new Ibiza FR gets a 1.4-litre turbo and supercharged TSI engine. This has 148bhp, so the car should appearance battling balmy hatches a apple-pie brace of heels, although emissions and ammunition abridgement accept aswell been improved.
A accustomed seven-speed DSG gearbox is aswell on the cards, as is SEAT’s XDS system, which reins in wheelspin and improves grip. The FR appearance a new set of bumpers, bore grille, 17-inch alloys and accompanying tailpipes.
Joining it on the stands will be the Leon Cupra. This retains the approachable car’s 238bhp 2.0-litre TSI, but gets a new attending for 2009. The adventurous exoteric has bore cooling vents, 18-inch alloys and billowing arches, as able-bodied as a able animate egg-shaped tailpipe.
Inside, there’s aluminium detailing, white apparatus dials and antagonism seats arresting with the Cupra logo.
Expect the Ibiza FR in showrooms from September, with a starting amount beneath £15,000. The Leon is due in July, and will amount about £20,000.
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