New Seat Toledo

bazz26

Looks like Seat are reintroducing the Toledo as a conventional saloon after the less than successful booted MPV version and rebadged 10 year old Audi A4 they called the Exeo.







Interior quality is a massive improvement on previous Seats but maybe it's just the photos but the car looks a bit on the tall and narrow side to me. Interesting in that it is built on a stretched Polo platform similar to the Skoda Rapid rather than the previously used Jetta/Golf platform which would suggest it a successor to the Cordoba rather than the old Toledo.

I think it will sell well here.

colm_mcm

Is that not just the same thing as that new skoda rancid?

Wow.

Leonard Hofstadter

colm_mcm wrote: »

Is that not just the same thing as that new skoda rancid?

Wow.

Yeah it's the same car, only different badges.

Note that although it looks like a saloon, it is actually a hatchback, so it remains to be seen how successful it will be in saloon loving Ireland.

colm_mcm

So it's a cordoba then

bazz26

Yep, it's a Rapid alright. The Seat lines look better proportioned than the Rapid though imo.

Toledo:



Rapid:

Mehaffey1

Such a Jetta lookalike. Will sell better than the Exeo though, isn't saying much really. The mk2 Toledo was a very nice looking car in comparison to this lazy styling VW/Seat and Skoda are now sharing.

bazz26

In fairness it wouldn't be too difficult to sell better than the Exeo.

bazz26

At least the new Leon looks decent:

Mehaffey1

Definitely true but in saying that a friend of mine has one and is alright up close in person but just nothing stands out about it at all, just that the grill is god awful

colm_mcm

Mehaffey1 wrote: »

Definitely true but in saying that a friend of mine has one and is alright up close in person but just nothing stands out about it at all, just that the grill is god awful

I didn't think they were even on sale yet ?

bazz26

colm_mcm wrote: »

I didn't think they were even on sale yet ?

I think he is referring to the Exeo, Colm.

colm_mcm

The exeo is just all wrong. They only had to change the lights, and they made a bags of that.

Would still nearly buy one if they were cheap enough, but they haven't dropped enough IMO

Chuck_Norris

colm_mcm wrote: »

The exeo is just all wrong. They only had to change the lights, and they made a bags of that.

Would still nearly buy one if they were cheap enough, but they haven't dropped enough IMO

+1 on that.

They made a total balls up of the front end of the car. And still too expensive to warrant buying one.

Leonard Hofstadter

bazz26 wrote: »

At least the new Leon looks decent:

Pity it's lost the independent rear suspension for the poverty spec models, and I thought Seat were supposed to be VW's "sporty" brand:rolleyes:?

MuppetCheck

I don't get it? Surely the main target market of the basic engines won't notice the difference? Plenty of basic everyday hacks going around the country with a solid beam on the back and the owners don't seem to mind.

Tea 1000

MuppetCheck wrote: »

I don't get it? Surely the main target market of the basic engines won't notice the difference? Plenty of basic everyday hacks going around the country with a solid beam on the back and the owners don't seem to mind.

Yep, there's a strong element of truth to that in fairness. They may as well save the money.
On a separate note, Seat really are doing nothing for themselves. Skoda managed to turn the company around, VW boss is always locking horns with Fiat boss by making statements that he's going to buy Alfa, Fiat boss is correct in replying to him "you should take a second look at Seat first and see if you can do something with that, seeing as you said in the past Seat is VW's Alfa, before you bother trying to actually buy Alfa".