The man who later shaped the Bugatti Veyron's interior, Jozef Kabaň, designed this city car named after a Galician town.
Lead trim: 1.0 8v (50 PS) · up to 100 hp
SEAT Arosa6H · 1997–2004
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FactThe man who later shaped the Bugatti Veyron's interior, Jozef Kabaň, designed this city car named after a Galician town.
A three-door, four-seat city car built by SEAT from 1997 to 2004, which debuted at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1997 and was facelifted in October 2000, named after Vilagarcía de Arousa. It was largely identical to the Volkswagen Lupo, which followed at the end of 1998 on the same Volkswagen Group A00 platform, a shortened version of the A03 of the Polo and Ibiza. It was made first at Wolfsburg and, from May 1998, at SEAT's Martorell plant, designed by Jozef Kabaň, the man behind the Bugatti Veyron 16.4. It replaced the Marbella and had no direct successor until the Mii of 2012, and more than 175,000 were built. It won the Golden Steering Wheel in 1997, and all engines had a five-speed manual, with a four-speed automatic optional on the 44 kW 1.4.
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Trims & Figures
5 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 8v (50 PS) | 1997–2004 | 1.0 L Inline-4 | 49 hp | 63.4 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 1.4 16v DOHC (101 PS) | 1997–2004 | 1.4 L Inline-4 | 100 hp | 94.4 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 1.4 8v (60 PS) | 1997–2004 | 1.4 L Inline-4 | 59 hp | 85.6 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 1.4 TDI three-cylinder (75 PS) | 1997–2004 | 1.4 L Inline-3 | 74 hp | 143.8 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 1.7 SDI (60 PS) | 1997–2004 | 1.7 L Inline-4 | 59 hp | 84.8 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
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