Crashes are, sadly, an essential part of motorsport, as contact between cars, either Formula 1 dedicated racers or touring cars, ends up pretty badly. The latest car crash comes from the UK’s Brands Hatch circuit, where a race in the Seat Leon Euro Cup competition was held. During the race, Portuguese driver Francisco Carvalho was touched by... ...read the full post
The Seat Leon is a pretty powerful hatchback model, sharing many of its engines with the Volkswagen Golf. The Seat Leon Cupra takes things one step higher, and offers quite a lot of performance. The Leon Cupra R takes it to the max, and unleashes 261 HP from that 2.0-liter turbocharged engine. But the max isn’t always the end, at least according... ...read the full post
Although this might annoy some of you petrol-heads which believe that gasoline is the only true fuel for a car, Seat has just won every award in the World Touring Car Championship, largely due to its Leon TDI model. The carmaker is represented by Spanish Touring Car Company (Sociedad Espanola de Automoviles de Turismo) team, which has won the manufacturer’s... ...read the full post
After North American tuners had their “little” get together at the SEMA show in Las Vegas last week, it’s time for the European companies to prepare for their own convention, at the Essen Motor Show in Germany, which will start on November 28 and end on December 6. This means that already quite a lot of companies are revealing to... ...read the full post
Spanish carmaker Seat is definitely not resting on its laurels after producing one of the most successful lineups of cars since it entered under the Volkswagen AG corporate umbrella, as the boss of sales and marketing, Jan Lafrentz, revealed that a lot of new models will appear in the following years from the automaker. Among the new models will be... ...read the full post
Now don’t get too excited, as the cars mentioned above will only act as safety cars in order for the organizers to test out the special stages of the rally and see if they are up to par with the safety regulations from the WRC. This continues the long lasting partnership between Seat and the Catalunya Rally competition. The Spanish automaker... ...read the full post
The Seat Leon is one of the most good looking hot-hatches in the market today, combining the agressive latin design with german engineering, all wrapped in some very cool colors, like the Crono Yellow or Candy White. But the spanish manufacturer didn’t think that these colors would be enough, at it has announced that it will offer a 4 new colors... ...read the full post
The German tuner RDX Racedesign has decided to do its magic on the Seat Leon. The aerodynamic bodykit, called “1P”, features a “GTI-Five“ front spoiler bumper ($399), devised Turbo-look side skirts ($129.95) and a “GTI-Five” rear apron ($349), which doesn’t have exits for the exhaust pipes, so you can fit it very easily... ...read the full post
