​Cos you'll be absolutely revving the b*****s off the engine to maintain 80mph, thus drastically reducing fuel economy.

Wonder if its free delivery to Yorkshire

Available at £7995 at many Seat dealers nationwide. Depending on finance rates you might effectively get a match for this deal. Car comes with DAB, cruise and aircon. Its the 74bhp version of the VAG 1.0 which also appears in the Up, Mii and Citigo. 0-60 takes 14.3 secs so if you spend a lot of time on the motorway you might need to look elsewhere.

I don't really think acceleration is that important on a motorway

Cold voted by mistake. Seems like a decent deal. Sorry OP.

heat added,thanks op.

Wait, what? this looks like a 49 month (~4 year) PCP for £7777 with option to buy (for a total of £10207). Initially though it was to buy it for £7777! 7K miles a year...

Either way, looks to be a good deal but not much info in the OP.

Thanks tho

Wonder if its free delivery to Yorkshire

Hot

Ah, so it is to buy it for £7777. Bargain!

For being so honest and decent I have voted hot for you :-)

For a Northern Ireland deal that is better than the mainland, heat!

Available at £7995 at many Seat dealers nationwide. Depending on finance rates you might effectively get a match for this deal. Car comes with DAB, cruise and aircon. Its the 74bhp version of the VAG 1.0 which also appears in the Up, Mii and Citigo. 0-60 takes 14.3 secs so if you spend a lot of time on the motorway you might need to look elsewhere.

Bargain with those extras

Thanks I'm going to have a look at this my old car needs scrapping and that's being nice

Just checked my Edinburgh dealer Western and they have same care on offer at £8795, this is an amazing deal.

​Cos you'll be absolutely revving the b*****s off the engine to maintain 80mph, thus drastically reducing fuel economy.

​No issue on an empty motorway but on busy ones you'll be speeding up, slowing down, stopping, speeding up again etc. And a a 1.0 74bhp is going to be accelerating hard for longer thus fuel consumption will be reduced.
My own car is the same size, has 133bhp more and yet my overall mpg in the real world is just 8mpg less than the lab test figure on this. Although most non motoring anoraks will be happy enough with this Seat, nicely specced car.

Yes I know what you mean but Arnold Clark were asking £8795 for a pre registered car with less spec. Seriously thinking of this for my son learning to drive instead of a good second hand car.

You can't balance it out mate

I got offered the 4 door version at Wilsons Rathkenny for a few hundred more.
I even took one for a test drive - it's OK - you have to horse it and then it drinks petrol.
Worth noting that these are the almost the lowest insurance group out there at the moment.
Any of the Belfast people got any pointers for cheap insurance for a 17 year old?

Voted hot. Great deal and superb car

Voted hot as its not a polluting diesel

80 MPH is exceeding the maximum by 10 MPH, the law does need changing but it hasn't been thus far.

No issue on a busy motorway either if the tools who hog the middle lane were brought to book. The only time you stop is when pulling into the services surely? I have stopped using motorways due to the appalling standard of downright dangerous drivers. I use country lanes on my commute and can easily achieve 70 MPG if unhindered by other traffic, however if I end up following other drivers this falls to 55 MPG as they do not read the road ahead and constantly brake and accelerate all the time. I am referring here to drivers who do the same commute every day, hence they know the road but still fail miserably in their attempt to drive along it. Slightest kink in the road....stamp on the brakes, oncoming vehicle....stamp on the brakes, going straight on at a roundabout....indicate left, an utter nightmare driving behind such idiots!

If anyone does get this car or actually drives any car often on dual carriageways or motorways, please keep to the left unless overtaking. Why? Because...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4oqfodY2Lz0
(Watch it in a mirror)

LOL...completely agree mate, brake...brake...brake...just a sign of a poor driver with zero concentration....mind, they are usually doing their hair in the mirror, sending a tweet, fiddling with the radio etc etc

Do you know what "pre-op" is?

The spec on this is truly staggering for the price! Anyone rang to confirm the deal?

Car deal of the year if confirmed......

Seems like a good price for a well specced little motor - heat from my seat in Ibiza

Cracking price for a little run around :smiley:

Depends on gear ratios really doesn't it......

At one time I drove a 75hp Astra 1.7tdi for years...done 10's of thousands of motorway miles and it was fine

Had diesels for 11 years, still drive one for work.

Recent car I decided as my personal miles drops to about 5k pa that the diesel wasn't going to be running econimically on local trips or justify the £1300 extra it would cost to buy.

Now have a 1.2, 3 cylinder, 130bhp PSA Puretech engine
It's a joyous drive, ok only 9.9sec 0-60 but the turbo kick still has all the fun of the diesel without the hassle of the diesel adblue issues I have on the company Mercedes diesel .

I advocated diesel for years, now petrol has come so far it's a no brainer.

i agree, petrol is the way to go unless your doing £15,000 miles plus and even then as diesels are incredibly complicated, they are money pits once they turn 304 years old with turbos, injectors, DMFs, DPFs, more likely to clog up EGR valves, etc.
pus diesels are more expensive to buy new, heavier and always more expensive to insure compared to petrol versions of the same model.

​A little engine flogs its heart out at motorway speeds. 3.5k rpm vs sub 2k rpm for my 320cdi.

The Polo 1.0 has a 6 speed manual so it's actually about [email protected]..

Dunno about the Seat though..perhaps the same

The Polo 1.0 6 speed is a direct injection turbo charged engine, so has completely different torque characteristics. It will therefore have much higher gearing (meaning lower rpm) than this 1.0 non-turbo 5-speed Seat.

​I would guess the Ibiza as a VAG car probably runs the same drive train so about the same as the polo.

My 1.2 puretech sat at 2.5k rpm in France at 135kmh which is 85mph.

I changed to diesel because at the time it made sense, now it doesn't, I've had more diesel related issues with cars than other faults too.

Petrols just work it seems, ironic as I always thought diesels more reliable, I think the old school ones before 2005 are, the new breed of diesels are just temperamental beasts

You obviously don't drive on the UK's motorways, that go up and down as you move about the country, you try getting up Watford gap incline north bound in this car without changing down.

Why buy when you can lease........

I have a Vauxhall with a 1 litre, 3 cylinder, normally aspirated engine outputting a magnificent 64 BHP! I also have a turbo diesel outputting 158 BHP. Both of them drive effortlessly on the motorway. Granted the diesel gets up to speed much quicker and sits at 80'ish at less than 2000 RPM. The smaller petrol needs some more use of the gears, but will cruise at 80'ish, yes at twice the RPM, and still return 52 MPG. Yes a smaller engine needs to work harder, but it is still a smaller engine and only capable of taking in so much fuel.
Where I find the diesels power and torque at a premium is when overtaking on trunk roads, not needed on the motorway as passing is much easier on a motorway. So anyone considering this car should not listen too much to the boy racers. In the real world this car is just fine.
Too much **** being spouted on this topic.

Why lease or buy when you can steal?

​no

I'd have this but it's too far away. Anyone know a dealer which price matches?

a couple of points

1. In the majority of modern small petrol turbo engines, the turbos have greater tolerance compared to the turbos found on modern diesels. and are less prone to clogging as petrol ios a far better lubricant than diesel.
2. the only company planning on fitting a DPF to their turbo petrols are VAG (audi, VW, seat and skoda) - this is because their technology is not as advanced as others, mazda have already stated their would never be a need for a DPF on their petrol engines.
3. diesle only hold their value better because consumer demand hasn't full changed, but it is changing and there was an article recently in autoexpress how people are now starting to avoid diesels, and petrol is now the prefered choice for the first time in the past 6 years.
4. road tax on modern petrol engines is just as low as diesels. the government are rumored to be announcing a tax increase on diesel engines in next months autumn statement.
5. a new ford mondeo
1.0T 125ps EcoBoost Zetec Nav 5dr - insurance group 17
2.0TDCi 150ps Zetec Nav 5dr - insurance group 23

petrol is better than diesel unless your doing big mileages.

Diesel is a type of oil and quite a good lubricant. Petrol is not a lubricant.

Where on earth do you get that petrol is a better lubricant than diesel, petrol has no lubricating propreties at all and is used for breaking down oily substances in cleaning.
Just makes the rest of your post look stupid.

Intrested in selling ur car insted of scrapping it?

Get on the phone and ring a few SEAT dealers?!

had a look at this last night , nice little car.
can confirm 3 door blue £7777
5 door £8250

DPF stands for Diesel Particulate Filter. I can inform you with absolute 100% certainty that no manufacturer will fit a DPF to a Petrol engined car.

Have done and no they wont - that's why I asked if anyone on here knew..........................

Fair enough. Cheap Ryanair flight to Belfast it is then!

Went for a brand new from factory Ibiza FR 150 for £12k from Drive the Deal

excellent deal. I was looking between this or the Hyundai i10 (Yes, I dont need a fast expensive car to squish on UK 30mph congested roads to compensate for all those things that lack in my life)
This has certainly got more kit.
Good Find!

i know and of course.
but VW plan to introduce petrol equivalents in their cars from next year.

another good reason to avoid anything made by the VAG group.

Did anybody get one of these? If so any thoughts?