2018 Seat Arona 1 5 TSI Evo 150 review price, specs and release date

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2018 Seat Arona 1.5 TSI Evo 150 review - price, specs and release date

Seat is mounting a sales charge and a key part of their sustainable growth, they say, will be their range of SUVs. The Seat Arona is the brand’s second entrant into the rapidly expanding SUV market, following closely on the heels of its bigger brother, the Ateca. A larger seven-seat SUV will be coming later this year. The new Arona is going up against rivals such as the Citroen C3 Aircross, Kia Stonic and Volkswagen T-Roc.

Built on the MQB AO platform, it is powered by a choice of engines: a 1.0-litre three-cylinder turbocharged petrol, a 1.6-litre turbo diesel, and the 1.5-litre TSI Evo four-cylinder petrol, which is the most powerful engine you can get in an Arona. Available in FR trim and above, it starts at £21,270.

We already know that even in its entry-level 1.0-litre guise, the Seat Arona is one of the best small SUVs to buy. This Arona has the new 1.5-litre TSI Evo engine that has already seen service in the Leon and Ibiza, and should make for a noticeable difference over the 94bhp version we have road tested recently.

This engine is reserved for higher trim levels of FR and above, commanding roughly a £1400 premium over the 1.0-litre 115PS FR, which Seat expects to be the best seller. On paper, it isn’t far off the smaller engine’s combined fuel economy figures, thanks to cylinder deactivation, which allows two of the four cylinders to be effectively shut off when running at light throttle loads. The change over to running on two cylinders is imperceptible, with a message in the driver information display being your only clue as to what mode the engine is running in.

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