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SEAT will be displaying its latest hot hatch at the 2008 Paris Motor Show, the SEAT Ibiza Cupra. Based on the 3-door hatchback bodystyle, the SEAT Ibiza Cupra features a 180 PS version of the 1.4 litre TSI engine featuring both a supercharger and a turbocharger to maximize boost pressure across all engine RPM ranges.
Power is put through the front wheels via a 7-speed DSG gearbox which you can manually shift via steering wheel paddle shifts.
Styling touches for the Cupra edition of the car include a new front bumper, little air intakes surrounding the front grille, 17 inch alloy wheels, and a new rear diffuser integrating a trapezoidal-shaped centrally-mounted exhaust tail pipe. On the interior you get Cupra sports seats and aluminium foot pedals.
Look for two more photos after the jump.
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After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
engine tech is better n better…
nice looking car..
One fierce looking cili!
something off topic 2 ask paul, can update the cherry alado deal. last reading from ur blog state that cherry move 2 indonesia but najib said the pekan plan will b complete next year end. thanks.
exhaust taken from a lambo. Looks quite sporty too
everything is cool, but both supercharger and turbocharger???
will that be too much for a 1.4 liter engine???
wahhh. … droooolinggggg!!!!!
Ugly CAT!
hope they sell at rm60k
so hot…..
Poor Seat, with competition getting tougher and tougher, families within the VAG Group getting closer and closer, they’re finding a hard time differentiating their products to conquer the market. Using the same techs for platform sharing thou cut costs, it hurts the more premier marques such as Audi. The only seemingly plausible way for them is to differentiate them by design, and i don’t mean the family looks, but more to the nice and not nice, look at the new VW Golf MK6, it’s gotten softer as oppose to the ‘in-yer-face’ MK5, to differentiate VW from Audi, letting the latter to do the aggresive, sporty, premium look, and VW to go after the subtle yet taut and muscular direction, leaving Skoda to remain as superbly boring as they were, and now SEAT, going all out ugly to disgust buyers, so they would walk into a VW dealer and gladly pay higher price for something that’s at least pleasing to the eye.
if the seat is this good, i wonder how the next volkswagen polo and audi a1 will be?
Styling is a bit busy, but very sporty nonetheless.
one problem though, they seem to have to kept the same stereo system, the radio is simple to use but u can’t preset the channels, its good for those with ipods but a hell for those who don’t
wow, looks pretty pocket rocket.
nice exhaust, doesn’t look like proton’s kukubird design.