Seat News

SEAT Sport UK will retain its Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship Teams' winning driver line up for 2008, with Jason Plato and Darren Turner confirmed as the squad's drivers for next season. They will pilot the team's two-car SEAT Leon challenge.

Martin Byford, the 2007 Clio Cup Champion, is the first driver to officially register for the 2008 SEAT Cupra Championship. He will race a brand new Leon Cupra, run by Z Speed Racing and supported by A&B Glass, Saracen Security, UK Fasteners and G Signs.

An Essex SEAT Dealer has found a novel way of ensuring all new car buyers leave its showroom on a high… by offering free flying lessons.

The top three finishers in the New Leon Cupra Class of the 2007 Blaupunkt SEAT Cupra Championship – Jonathan Adam, Fulvio Mussi and Carl Breeze – together with the winner from the Leon Cupra R Class, Harry Vaulkhard, tested SEAT Sport UK’s BTCC Leon at the Rockingham racing circuit near Corby today, as part of their prize for a season of success.

In the final meeting of the 2007 Blaupunkt SEAT Cupra Championship, Jonathan Adam (Total Control Racing) finally made his New Leon Cupra class title official, while Harry Vaulkhard (Volkis Boozer's/Triple R) secured the Leon Cupra R class crown with a 3rd place finish in Round 19.

Having been seriously burnt in a filming accident earlier in the weekend, Jason Plato was described as ‘superhuman’ by his SEAT Sport UK team boss Scott Dennis (SEAT UK Motorsport Manager) after ignoring the pain and driving his heart out in a dramatic finale at the Thruxton circuit in Hampshire.

Jason Plato has been hurt in an incident during filming for the Channel 5 Fifth Gear programme.

Racing driver Jason Plato had a lighter right foot than usual last week, when he took part in the AA/ALD Automotive MPG Marathon.

There’s no stopping SEAT! The Spanish brand has just achieved its best September results to date, with 6,851 new cars registered – that’s up by 12.04 % compared with the same month last year – to take a 1.63 % share of the UK market during the month.

When the Blaupunkt SEAT Cupra Championship rolled into Thruxton in May, it was Jonathan Adam (Total Control Racing) and Freddy Nordstrom (Advent Motorsport) who stole the show, both taking double victories in their respective classes.

SEAT has delivered the surprise of this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, with the unveiling of the dramatic Tribu concept.

‘Auto Emoción’ is moving from race track to ‘freetrack’ this October, as a rugged new all-road car from SEAT goes on sale – the Altea freetrack 4. And to whet appetites in advance, SEAT UK is today announcing prices for this exciting new vehicle.

SEAT is popping open the cava for the 50th birthday of a car that almost single-handedly put Spain on wheels: the legendary SEAT 600.

SEAT has opened an important new Prototype Development Centre (PDC) within its Martorell production facility, providing work for 300 engineers from both the technological centre and process engineering area.

The next FIA World Touring Car Championship meeting will be a milestone for both SEAT and the FIA World Series – for the first time, a manufacturer team will enter a diesel car at a FIA-organised official World Championship race.