Gman77, I did sort of warn you about raising this point! Anyway, think back too far - but here goes, my old trusty VX Cav GSI 4X4 had this issue with its front wipers - what a pain I thought (no "service position option in that car"), then I spotted that later cars had modified wiper arms, I bought the new parts and fitted them,
problem vanished! Now as far as claims of improved aerodynamics being the reason, well in theory that will be true, but Seat, in line with many other car makers, could have achieved acceptable "CD" figures without needing to drop the wipers "out of use position" - just have a look at the blunt nose on the
Ibiza, not exactly well designed for streamlining, more for looks and fashion - same as Audi in fact! I'm old enough to remember that the Montego (company managers had them so were also pool cars) had this "amazing" function that when the wipers were on intermittant, they had a raised parking position, when off they disappeared down below view, now who would have thought that BL would have thought of that, unfortunately they had quite a lot of good ideas built into totally crap cars!
