SEAT Ibiza Anniversary Limited Edition FR 1.0 TSI 115PS Review
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What the Ibiza deserves is making one with the 1.5 TSI engine available, hardly any Ibizas with that engine made it to the UK (lots to elsewhere in Europe, though), but would make a great "warm hatch" alternative to the 2.0 TSI engined VW Polo GTI, and be cheaper to run and insure than the latter and in a better looking car design.
I'd love to see the 1.5 TSI turn up in the ibiza, it would get plenty of power for a car this size.
1.5 TSi certainly shows as being available in certain trim levels on the German SEAT configurator.
A collaboration with Porsche for the 40th Anniversary would have been amazing and a nod to the original. Imagine Porsche styling cues 'wheels, body kit etc) or even better the 1.5tsi but tuned by Porsche, that would have been pretty radical and absolutely phenomenal. Could have priced it similar to a Yaris GR and I bet it they would have sold an absolute load of them.
I think we asked when the car first came out and was told they didn't feel the market was there for it here.
SEAT don't like us 'cos we drive on the wrong side of the road and we moan too much about the weather (and the cars we have, or don't have)
Compared to the Ibiza, the Fabia is fugly, though and unless they've improved the handling in the Monte Carlo edition, it doesn't handle as well.
With the Swatch Omega X tie up for moon watches - which has proved a success mixing 'high street' with 'high end' brands. I agree it would have been a highly sought after car and a partnership which would raises awareness of another brand. VAG politics would have probably seen it killed off as a suggestion though!! Personally, I felt the 40th Anniversary was not great overall spec wise and ended up ordering a Excellence Lux DSG due early next year.
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Am very jealous! What's the price difference like between the 1.5 150 and 1.0 115 models like?
When the current shape (pre-facelift) VW Polo model range was launched back in 2017, it initially included a 1.5 litre 150 bhp engine and 7 speed DSG in R-Line trim only. However, it was very quickly removed from all UK promotional literature and price lists - from memory, this happened before order books actually opened. Similarly, the Polo GTI was to be offered with a 6 speed manual gearbox in the UK, but that never materialised either.
I did wonder whether the decision not to bring a 1.5 Polo to the UK was emissions-based, in order to manage average CO2 emissions of VW’s UK Polo model range. Or maybe VW felt there wasn’t a market for such a model in the UK in the same way that Seat didn’t see a market for a 1.5 Ibiza. There was certainly lots of interest in the prospect of a 1.5 Polo on the Polo forum.
We'd love to order a 1.5 Ibiza FR, FR Sport or Ann. Ed. with DSG, if only, anything for a smoother 4 cylinder engine, fed up with our 3 cylinder now hunting around on start up and rocking when at lights when it has a cold engine..
Interestingly the Seat Ibiza is available in Cyprus in a 1.5 Litre DSG engine. Cyprus also being RHD with a digital cockpit you can select to have the dash in either km or miles.
Surely this can then be ordered direct from the factory to the UK with this spec.
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