Higher Ibiza with ditto consumption?
The Seat Arona is the Spanish range between the compact crossovers. It is at the bottom of its class and if you call this segment ‘hot’, the sales figures of the Arona are at most lukewarm. Enough reason to take a closer look at his practical consumption: are we perhaps missing the hidden talent of Seat’s mini-SUV?
Since its introduction in 2017, Seat has found around 9,000 Dutch customers for the Arona. Not a bad number in an absolute sense, but in the highly contested segment of crossovers, the value is not at all impressive. The car is the more practical brother of the Seat Ibiza, with whom it also shares its technology. Almost all Aronas in the AutoWeek Consumption Monitor are equipped with the 1.0 TSI three-cylinder with 110 or 115 hp. Although buyers can also opt for a 1.0 TSI with 95 hp, an unblown 1.0 or a more powerful 1.5 TSI, this hardly seems to happen in practice.
Consumption Seat Arona 1.0 TSI
Despite the different capacities, the 1.0 TSI is basically the same, which is why we dare to sweep all consumption figures together. If we do that, we end up with an average of 1 in 17.2 (5.9 l/100 km). The most economical Arona driver must have driven his 1.0 TSI 110hp very calmly, as witnessed by the average consumption of 1 to 21.7 (4.61 l/100 km). The least economical driver achieved 1 in 14.9 (6.7 l / 100 km) with a 115 hp variant, but quickly stopped typing in the consumption figures. The only 1.0 TSI 95 hp driver scored just below average: 1 in 17.1 (5.9 l / 100 km).
If we compare the consumption of the Arona with its cousin, the Volkswagen T-Cross, then the Seat appears to be almost negligibly more economical in practice. In that article we concluded that economical drivers are better off with a Polo. We see the same thing at Seat. The Ibiza is also more economical than the Arona, but in this case the difference in consumption is a modest 0.3 liters per 100 kilometers.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl