After umming and arring for a few days, I placed an order today for my first ever built-to-spec car... 
I'm getting a Leon Ecomotive 1.6 CR SE in Candy White, with Technology Pack and Convenience Pack. I think I got a pretty good deal - there's already £2,000 off SE list price due to Seat's "Eco-nomics" offer and the nice sales lass agreed to knock a little more off and throw in floor mats, "smoker's kit" and touch up paint pen.
Oh, and I got a free USB stick which apparently contains a "SEAT Emocion Soundtrack", in return for me joining Club SEAT - which I assume is a fancy name for their special offers mailing list? Meh...
I drove into Nottingham on Saturday to go shopping and after an hour or two of city driving and car parks, my poor FR was getting 18mpg average... a perfect example of why I can't afford to keep it, especially given my long commute and petrol prices becoming as silly as they are. If I kept the FR for the next 12 months, I reckon I would spend approx £4,200 just on fuel alone.
So now the long wait begins: I've been given an estimate of 12 weeks to delivery. The sales lass implied that it's more likely to be later rather than earlier than that, but it's not completely unheard of for them to be early. My fingers are crossed that it'll be manufactured before the long summer vacation in the Martorell factory; I reckon that should be OK as I'd expect the last few weeks of the 12wks to be shipping time.
Apparently if the car arrives a short while before September, I can ask them to hold back registering it until September so it'll get a new '60' plate. It's gonna be painful waiting an extra few weeks, if that happens, but it's probably sensible to wait a short time to end up with a car that's effectively 6 months 'younger'.
I'm getting a Leon Ecomotive 1.6 CR SE in Candy White, with Technology Pack and Convenience Pack. I think I got a pretty good deal - there's already £2,000 off SE list price due to Seat's "Eco-nomics" offer and the nice sales lass agreed to knock a little more off and throw in floor mats, "smoker's kit" and touch up paint pen.
Oh, and I got a free USB stick which apparently contains a "SEAT Emocion Soundtrack", in return for me joining Club SEAT - which I assume is a fancy name for their special offers mailing list? Meh...
I drove into Nottingham on Saturday to go shopping and after an hour or two of city driving and car parks, my poor FR was getting 18mpg average... a perfect example of why I can't afford to keep it, especially given my long commute and petrol prices becoming as silly as they are. If I kept the FR for the next 12 months, I reckon I would spend approx £4,200 just on fuel alone.
So now the long wait begins: I've been given an estimate of 12 weeks to delivery. The sales lass implied that it's more likely to be later rather than earlier than that, but it's not completely unheard of for them to be early. My fingers are crossed that it'll be manufactured before the long summer vacation in the Martorell factory; I reckon that should be OK as I'd expect the last few weeks of the 12wks to be shipping time.
Apparently if the car arrives a short while before September, I can ask them to hold back registering it until September so it'll get a new '60' plate. It's gonna be painful waiting an extra few weeks, if that happens, but it's probably sensible to wait a short time to end up with a car that's effectively 6 months 'younger'.
. Make sure you get 2 sets of mats. (one set is thicker than the other)Picked up my new Altea today. Same spec as your Leon. The 1.6TDI is pretty good. Fuel gauge needs to calibrate itself. It's giving me a range of just 375 miles. 
Did the same thing on my old one, so it should sort itself out in a few months. 
