9:39 am, March 27, 2014
SPANISH marque Seat has finally announced it will build a compact SUV.
The as-yet unnamed new car is set to arrive in 2016 and has been in development for the past two years. It’s believed to be based on the Seat Leon – VW Group’s MQB platform.
Making the announcement, Seat chairman Jurgen Stackmann said: ‘This is an excellent piece of news, since it takes Seat into a new territory, in one of the largest and fastest growing segments in the world.
‘The SUV is an important pillar in the future corporate strategy and is a major step forward on the road to reaching sustainable profitability for the company.’
Directors have hinted for the past three years that an SUV was much needed in the Seat model line-up as it’s a segment that has increased by more than 40 per cent over the past five years.
Seat first presented an idea for an SUV at the Geneva Motor Show in 2011 (pictured).
