Seat Ibiza 1.4 3-door

Having received this car second hand, I was not expecting too much from this little hatch. Coming from the global VW badge, the Seat Ibiza is a sport little car that combines great handling with a spritely 1.4 litre engine. My only concern of the engine is that the torque band is very low and it requires a fair amount of revving to get it up to power, lowering the miles per gallon figure. This aside though, the Ibiza really does give an excellent ride. On motorways, the car is easily able to keep up with traffic and even power past much more powerful cars. It really comes to life on country roads though where the nimble handling and the high gears really come to life and ...  Read the complete review

I've had my used Seat for just over 6 months now and have done 6000+ miles in rain, snow, sleet.... the motorway to the narrow mountain roads of North Wales.... So here's what I learnt... Costing me just over £3000 (33K..low mileage) from the Seat dealers, I have got to say it probably wasn't what you'd call a bargain but I do not regret buying it for a second... The GOOD.... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... so if you like your cutesy, dainty look of the citreon Saxo.... you may find the Seat a tad brutish looking... but it does have a loyal following of people who absolutely love its looks... and it has the biggest Yahoo club ...  Read the complete review

Having owned this car for 6 months or so I am starting to believe that I will stick with Seat for quite a while. The marque is distintly undervalued by the public, and the longer it stays that way the longer we can keep enjoying it's low prices. A fairly young car manufacturer, the first range of cars brought out by Seat, were to be frank, very poor. The components were badly designed and poorly fitted resulting in a dull looking car that rattled and generally didn't compete, except in Spain as the Skoda/Lada equivalent. But in 1992 the Volkswagen Group recognised that Seat had some great factory premises, cheap labour and tax costs and they ...  Read the complete review

Having spent some time driving VW's small car offerings (the polo and lupo) I decided to see what savings could be made by switching to one of VW's other divisons. Seat's ibiza is a polo by another name, if you look hard enough you'll even find parts stamped with the VW logo - in fact they are built in the same factory with just different body shells taking the guts of the car. I compaired the 1.4 16v versions of the ibiza and the polo and found the ibiza price very difficult to side step. At the crux of it the ibiza lists for £9000 with air conditioning as standard, ABS, power steering, fancy looking built in radio - all the gizmo's you could ask ...  Read the complete review

The Seat Ibiza, if basically of Volkswagon, the engine is the same as the Polo, and many of the working parts are also, and so it is very reliable, not only that, it is much cheaper than its counterpart, and so is cheaper to run,service and get parts for, plus, for a younger driver like my the insurance is relaitively cheap, group 4, for a 1.4. The New style Ibiza was introduced to the European market in the Autumn of 1993. Mechanically there is a fundamental similarity to the golf. although there are a number of detailed differences, especially in areas of syling and equipment. For the home Mechanic, Ibiza models are straightforward vehicles to ...  Read the complete review