Seat has an updated version of the Ateca in the development chambers, and it’s that redesigned SUV that has now surfaced in winter camouflage suit in northern Sweden.
It is 2016 when Seat presents its very first SUV: the Ateca. Time flies, because that means that the long-legged, who opened the doors for the arrival of cars like the Arona and Tarraco, is celebrating its fourth anniversary this year. Seat is working hard on a modernized Ateca and that car has now appeared for the second time in a camouflage suit.
The front and rear of the Spanish competitor of cars like the Nissan Qashqai is still fanatically hanging in the stickers, but it is certainly clear that the Ateca will get new LED headlights. The viewers are different in shape, since the ‘inner vertical line’ no longer runs parallel to the grille. The grille itself seems to be getting a new look and seems to run further down than is currently the case (photo 7). Seat also makes changes to the bumper work on the front and rear of the Ateca.
Seat is probably modernizing the Atota’s infotainment system, but what is technically interesting is at least as interesting. It is not inconceivable that Seat introduces the Ateca to engines equipped with mild hybrid technology. Whether that also means that cars like the sporty Cupra Ateca, just like the new Cupra Leon, Cupra Formentor, Volkswagen Golf GTI and Skoda Octavia RS, will receive the well-known 245 hp plug-in hybrid powertrain is certainly possible.
2,100 Atecas were sold in the Netherlands last year. In Europe, 98,500 copies went over the counter in 2019, just under 26 percent more than in 2018.