SEAT Ibiza 2020 in-depth review - carwow
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Date: 2022-04-11
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81giorikas
Time to bring down some of his comments.
First of all,
Suspension with 17inch in FR trim is bound to be less forgiving than the style version with the 15 inch rims and 185 tyre.
The polo is slightly softer but not by much. It means that it too, will not be great with 17inch rims. Both have two stage extra dampers, but what they do (normal to harder for FR and normal to softer for excellence trims and polo) is different.
The line in the dash? If it bothers you you should be bothered in the audi A3 as well (which he dubs as the best interior in the class above for premium hatchbacks etc. Won't that line gather dust etc there?
No mention that the door panels in the ibiza and the polo are cut cheaply where the window meets the frame behind the light for the door lock. Ok. that is more budget than anything soft touch in the dash but ok.
And no mention that the door panel of the ibiza in FR is actually a better deal than the polo: Better finish (yes, cloth in a very large portion (the polo is all hard plastic: Where your elbow rests there is some plastic which is like a soft well. skin, not so good actually. Same with the seat.
There is no wind mirror noise in the motorway in the seat or the polo. I've driven it on more than 140km/h in the motorway, it's actually less noisy than some bigger cars. It's other noise sources (road and engine) are well suppressed, so much so that it tracks consistently at about 68-70 db at 140km/h in various tests on motor press and with my db meter in the level of the right ear and A weighting and calibrated. How does the polo fare? Less noisy for. 0, 5 db usually. And you can't really tell. You can tell that if the ibiza has wider tyres you will hear them more in rougher surfaces. Else, it's golf or less as far as noise goes, actually almost mercedes levels in some regards. Not bad VAG, but don't try to sell the polo as something better soundproofed.
If you open both their door panels you will see no sound proofing. You only get that in the passat and above. Same with the golf mk VI and VII so.
Still those cars are so well designed that they don't need to block noise from there so!
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Time to bring down some of his comments.
First of all,
Suspension with 17inch in FR trim is bound to be less forgiving than the style version with the 15 inch rims and 185 tyre.
The polo is slightly softer but not by much. It means that it too, will not be great with 17inch rims. Both have two stage extra dampers, but what they do (normal to harder for FR and normal to softer for excellence trims and polo) is different.
The line in the dash? If it bothers you you should be bothered in the audi A3 as well (which he dubs as the best interior in the class above for premium hatchbacks etc. Won't that line gather dust etc there?
No mention that the door panels in the ibiza and the polo are cut cheaply where the window meets the frame behind the light for the door lock. Ok. that is more budget than anything soft touch in the dash but ok.
And no mention that the door panel of the ibiza in FR is actually a better deal than the polo: Better finish (yes, cloth in a very large portion (the polo is all hard plastic: Where your elbow rests there is some plastic which is like a soft well. skin, not so good actually. Same with the seat.
There is no wind mirror noise in the motorway in the seat or the polo. I've driven it on more than 140km/h in the motorway, it's actually less noisy than some bigger cars. It's other noise sources (road and engine) are well suppressed, so much so that it tracks consistently at about 68-70 db at 140km/h in various tests on motor press and with my db meter in the level of the right ear and A weighting and calibrated. How does the polo fare? Less noisy for. 0, 5 db usually. And you can't really tell. You can tell that if the ibiza has wider tyres you will hear them more in rougher surfaces. Else, it's golf or less as far as noise goes, actually almost mercedes levels in some regards. Not bad VAG, but don't try to sell the polo as something better soundproofed.
If you open both their door panels you will see no sound proofing. You only get that in the passat and above. Same with the golf mk VI and VII so.
Still those cars are so well designed that they don't need to block noise from there so!
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Andy
Bought a pre-registered Ibiza SE Technology 1. 0 95PS about a month ago, had 6 miles on the clock. Now has 680.
Fuel economy is reading as 49. 9mpg average over that 680 miles, longer country road journeys it's doing 52-54mpg.
Nice car to drive, but main disapointment is the factory fit Nexen tyres, they're rubbish. No huge amount of grip in the dry, and even less in the wet. Compared to the factory fit Kumho eco-tyres on the wife's '18 Fabia, the Nexens are rubbish. Nexen is the new name for Woosung - the infamous Chinese Ditchfinders of the 90s. Very poor choice by Seat. Will have to bite the bullet and put real tyres on before the winter, I don't think I could drive on the Nexens in cold and wet, warm and wet (ooh er) they're just about usable.
Otherwise, some odd spec choices - 8- satnav but no DAB, auto lights but no auto wipers.
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Bought a pre-registered Ibiza SE Technology 1. 0 95PS about a month ago, had 6 miles on the clock. Now has 680.
Fuel economy is reading as 49. 9mpg average over that 680 miles, longer country road journeys it's doing 52-54mpg.
Nice car to drive, but main disapointment is the factory fit Nexen tyres, they're rubbish. No huge amount of grip in the dry, and even less in the wet. Compared to the factory fit Kumho eco-tyres on the wife's '18 Fabia, the Nexens are rubbish. Nexen is the new name for Woosung - the infamous Chinese Ditchfinders of the 90s. Very poor choice by Seat. Will have to bite the bullet and put real tyres on before the winter, I don't think I could drive on the Nexens in cold and wet, warm and wet (ooh er) they're just about usable.
Otherwise, some odd spec choices - 8- satnav but no DAB, auto lights but no auto wipers.
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Dale
Mk4 2009-2017 was so much more beautiful and had much better engines, not those eco, artificially forced, sorry excuses for a car engine. This one they boxed up, made it smaller and patchier, rough around the edges (literally) to look more like Polo and Fabia and completely lost the exquisite, exotic, dynamic, exciting lines of Mk4. Why the eFfing F make a car with personality look more like other cars, from your own group, with zero personality and style! Even so it didn't work, as I see people generally still choose the boring Polo and incompetent Skoda over it. Too bad, really.
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Mk4 2009-2017 was so much more beautiful and had much better engines, not those eco, artificially forced, sorry excuses for a car engine. This one they boxed up, made it smaller and patchier, rough around the edges (literally) to look more like Polo and Fabia and completely lost the exquisite, exotic, dynamic, exciting lines of Mk4. Why the eFfing F make a car with personality look more like other cars, from your own group, with zero personality and style! Even so it didn't work, as I see people generally still choose the boring Polo and incompetent Skoda over it. Too bad, really.
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lapamful
Every car and brand have their place in this world and Seat's place isn't doing budget cars, although this is undoubtedly very good. Look at the sporting version of the Yaris, Piccanto, basically the Japanese and Koreans are upping their game. Not only have they dominated the budget car category for decades, they're now doing sporty too. And unless Seat comes out with a Cupra for this car which is better than all of those, I'm afraid I won't see much point to the Ibiza. And that's not entirely Ibiza's fault, it's also what VW will allow them to put in their cars.
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Every car and brand have their place in this world and Seat's place isn't doing budget cars, although this is undoubtedly very good. Look at the sporting version of the Yaris, Piccanto, basically the Japanese and Koreans are upping their game. Not only have they dominated the budget car category for decades, they're now doing sporty too. And unless Seat comes out with a Cupra for this car which is better than all of those, I'm afraid I won't see much point to the Ibiza. And that's not entirely Ibiza's fault, it's also what VW will allow them to put in their cars.
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mediastarguest
I've had an Ibiza 1. 0 75hp for three years now. Comfortable, spacious for its class, stylish looks and interior, great fuel economy, brilliant climate control, responsive steering.
Downsides:
1 obviously lack of power from that small engine.
2 breaking not great due to rear drums instead of discs.
3 The S&S system stoped working after two years - now works very rarely. Done me a favour cause it's bloody annoying but nevertheless not ideal.
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I've had an Ibiza 1. 0 75hp for three years now. Comfortable, spacious for its class, stylish looks and interior, great fuel economy, brilliant climate control, responsive steering.
Downsides:
1 obviously lack of power from that small engine.
2 breaking not great due to rear drums instead of discs.
3 The S&S system stoped working after two years - now works very rarely. Done me a favour cause it's bloody annoying but nevertheless not ideal.
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Peter
Hope they-ve fixed the parking sensors, this is her second car and it-s parking sensors couldn-t be heard, we got them to relocate the parking speaker to the B- pillar inside the car, there it is perfect, her previous Ibiza-s parking sensor was much better, yes, I agree it-s a great driver, It-s a 1. 2 (110) on a 2017 plate, does 48mpg, ok, the interior is a bit low rent, but that doesn-t bother us, and yes I like to try it with 190bhp, so Seat, let-s have it! -
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Hope they-ve fixed the parking sensors, this is her second car and it-s parking sensors couldn-t be heard, we got them to relocate the parking speaker to the B- pillar inside the car, there it is perfect, her previous Ibiza-s parking sensor was much better, yes, I agree it-s a great driver, It-s a 1. 2 (110) on a 2017 plate, does 48mpg, ok, the interior is a bit low rent, but that doesn-t bother us, and yes I like to try it with 190bhp, so Seat, let-s have it! -
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Edmundajw
Hello Mr CarWow man. Are you aware if you'll be doing a review for the new 2022 model? I've been offered a good deal on the 2022 FR, and am driving the 2017 SE Design now- so that equity will go into the next deal. As I can basically pay the same amount per month (and effectively no deposit out of pocket, I'll probably go for the slightly better specs- I'm just wondeirng to what extent it's better. Is the 2022 close enough to this 2020 reviewed here?
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Hello Mr CarWow man. Are you aware if you'll be doing a review for the new 2022 model? I've been offered a good deal on the 2022 FR, and am driving the 2017 SE Design now- so that equity will go into the next deal. As I can basically pay the same amount per month (and effectively no deposit out of pocket, I'll probably go for the slightly better specs- I'm just wondeirng to what extent it's better. Is the 2022 close enough to this 2020 reviewed here?
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robert
Right this second, I-m in Lanzarote watching this video and these are everywhere making life tricky, when you have just returned to it after a shopping trip, to work out which white Ibiza is yours. Well, I must say, these cars are good, quiet, nippy and roomy. My one is the one up from basic, with the 1 litre turbo petrol and it-s all the car you need, really. Mega economical family hatch, it-s done 40k kilometres and is squeak free. nice.
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Right this second, I-m in Lanzarote watching this video and these are everywhere making life tricky, when you have just returned to it after a shopping trip, to work out which white Ibiza is yours. Well, I must say, these cars are good, quiet, nippy and roomy. My one is the one up from basic, with the 1 litre turbo petrol and it-s all the car you need, really. Mega economical family hatch, it-s done 40k kilometres and is squeak free. nice.
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KrusssH
Pretty disappointing review. It looks like it's made for the Ibiza to look bad, when most of the issues he mention can be solved paying cheap extras like other cars do.
Ibiza is actually one of the best, if not the best hachback of B segment. Only hard plastics inside are to be critisized, on the rest of aspects it may be class leader.
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Pretty disappointing review. It looks like it's made for the Ibiza to look bad, when most of the issues he mention can be solved paying cheap extras like other cars do.
Ibiza is actually one of the best, if not the best hachback of B segment. Only hard plastics inside are to be critisized, on the rest of aspects it may be class leader.
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Dan
The 1. 5tsi has been dropped from the Ibiza so this info is a bit out of date. Agree though that the interior does feel quite cheap and can't understand some of the decisions made - for example it's impossible to spec heated seats on any model and get electric windows in the back on anything but the excellence trim.
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The 1. 5tsi has been dropped from the Ibiza so this info is a bit out of date. Agree though that the interior does feel quite cheap and can't understand some of the decisions made - for example it's impossible to spec heated seats on any model and get electric windows in the back on anything but the excellence trim.
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