It's the last good old school car, with tactile switches & buttons everywhere, screen nicely integrated in the dash, proper instrument cluster in a binnacle. I've been driving a Cupra branded one for a year and I can't be more happier. Newer models keep failing to excite me and I plan to keep it for, 10 years maybe. 
@leg204839 - If you consider it to be the perfect car (as per the discussion topic title), if it still meets your requirements for what you need from your car then why would you even consider selling it?
Well the local Skoda owner / dealer told me I'd got an excellent car in the Ateca. Even Skoda love the Karog / Ateca. If you wait long enough clicky switches will come back. Two years time or so. Have to see how the incarnation of the mothership VW re-think makes it into Seat's and Cupras. May be we'll get toggle switches better than Neil Armstrong's that broke and he used his pen 🖊 to take off.
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Well almost how I remember it. Not quite a toggle switch but a circuit breaker and the backpack broke it. Good story thou.
50 Years Later: The pen that saved Apollo 11
The Apollo 11 mission could have ended in disaster, if it were not for some astronaut ingenuity and a felt-tipped pen.
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Well almost how I remember it. Not quite a toggle switch but a circuit breaker and the backpack broke it. Good story thou.
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Another vote for keeping it 
I love technology, but the new generation of VW group cars leave me cold.
By rights we should have changed our 2018 Leon by now, but it's such a great car I'm really struggling to find something I would be happy to have in its place; from SEAT/VW or any other brand.
I love technology, but the new generation of VW group cars leave me cold.
By rights we should have changed our 2018 Leon by now, but it's such a great car I'm really struggling to find something I would be happy to have in its place; from SEAT/VW or any other brand.
It might also be how they sell them these days as bland VZ etc. As the top post says "I bought all the options". You could personalise them around that period and they were built to your spec now they are sold as marketing categories. You could buy as much luxury as you wanted. With the advent of the standalone Cupra brand that luxury got moved over the Cupra model, atleast with the Ateca. If you wanted that panoramic roof, the heated windscreen, the winter pack, the mib2 high unit etc you had to buy the Cupra version with the associated Cupra bling.
I know I'm being radical now calling the Cupra brand bling. Then they developed their own models which were separate from Seat. Seat got assigned to the slow lane with that big question of whether there would be new Seats. Well the models will limp a long to 2030. EVs are not for Seat yet, only on Cupras. Think they shot themselves in the foot especially when they decided that not all Seat dealerships could sell Cupras. Thinning out dealerships that could sell Cupras mean you are less likely to buy one. That's not rocket science.
Seat got restricted to ICE till atleast 2030. The recent announcement. This will tie to the next generation of VW technology and how that comes to Seat pencilled in post 2030 one suspects. Fast lane Cupra, slow lane Seat.
There are some dishy Chinese EVs out there and I did spot one with "copper" trim in it which was called rose. So if you like copper you can have it in "rose" detailing. 0-60 in 2.5 seconds cant be sniffed at. Here again the non availability of local dealers for Chinese EVs coming in causes me to think twice about some of them. You don't want a long trek to a dealer to sort an issue out. The older you get the more reliability you want.
The MQB Evo range was hit by reliability issues part one suspects post dieselgate, pressure on funding and Vag management not understanding connected cars. Remote updates were going to be the answer. The Chief Exec had to walk the plank as I recall over the infotainment system's reliability. Busy plank, dieselgate then mib3 Linux auto. Another chief exec for the plank, we have greased it for you.... All part of "the Tribe". Just the wrong tribe
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Link to that copper Chinese EV I spotted of recent.... coming. The designer might have nicked the Cupra detailing.
Here we go... first model in this review with copper like detailing:
Some good news locally Cupra is coming to the local Seat dealership so those EV and hybrids in the new models of Cupra only will be available. Well I'm looking forward to some more VW Chinese EV badged as Cupra but may be they will start manufacturing them in Europe. The Elrog is the successor to the Ateca if you want an EV in that form. Tavascan has that sport back. Here the three SUV line up that Vag had between VW, Seat and Skoda making nine EV models got broken when they decided not to have an EV version of the Ateca but only in Skoda. The Elrog. Here it would be so easy to badge up an Elrog as a Seat as Skoda did with the Ateca to make a Karoq. The Ateca will go at sometime and the Terramar is the Cupra answer at the minute. Seat don't have one at the minute.
I know I'm being radical now calling the Cupra brand bling. Then they developed their own models which were separate from Seat. Seat got assigned to the slow lane with that big question of whether there would be new Seats. Well the models will limp a long to 2030. EVs are not for Seat yet, only on Cupras. Think they shot themselves in the foot especially when they decided that not all Seat dealerships could sell Cupras. Thinning out dealerships that could sell Cupras mean you are less likely to buy one. That's not rocket science.
Seat got restricted to ICE till atleast 2030. The recent announcement. This will tie to the next generation of VW technology and how that comes to Seat pencilled in post 2030 one suspects. Fast lane Cupra, slow lane Seat.
There are some dishy Chinese EVs out there and I did spot one with "copper" trim in it which was called rose. So if you like copper you can have it in "rose" detailing. 0-60 in 2.5 seconds cant be sniffed at. Here again the non availability of local dealers for Chinese EVs coming in causes me to think twice about some of them. You don't want a long trek to a dealer to sort an issue out. The older you get the more reliability you want.
The MQB Evo range was hit by reliability issues part one suspects post dieselgate, pressure on funding and Vag management not understanding connected cars. Remote updates were going to be the answer. The Chief Exec had to walk the plank as I recall over the infotainment system's reliability. Busy plank, dieselgate then mib3 Linux auto. Another chief exec for the plank, we have greased it for you.... All part of "the Tribe". Just the wrong tribe
.Link to that copper Chinese EV I spotted of recent.... coming. The designer might have nicked the Cupra detailing.
Here we go... first model in this review with copper like detailing:
Some good news locally Cupra is coming to the local Seat dealership so those EV and hybrids in the new models of Cupra only will be available. Well I'm looking forward to some more VW Chinese EV badged as Cupra but may be they will start manufacturing them in Europe. The Elrog is the successor to the Ateca if you want an EV in that form. Tavascan has that sport back. Here the three SUV line up that Vag had between VW, Seat and Skoda making nine EV models got broken when they decided not to have an EV version of the Ateca but only in Skoda. The Elrog. Here it would be so easy to badge up an Elrog as a Seat as Skoda did with the Ateca to make a Karoq. The Ateca will go at sometime and the Terramar is the Cupra answer at the minute. Seat don't have one at the minute.
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