SEAT Mii on Fifth Gear

Ol' Timer

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Fith Gear reviewed the Mii on the programme this week. Jonny was driving it in Barcelona and seemed to like it. It was a bright yellow car and I thought it looked quite good on the road in the conditions that it was designed for. Obviously, it is no rocket ship but it seemed fairly perky in traffic. They demonstrated the emergency anti-crash feature, which was pretty spectacular. There is a laser monitoring the car in front and below 19 mph if it thinks you are going to collide with it, it applies the brakes. It is a bit of a gimmick but it seemed to work.

Link to video here:
http://fwd.channel5.com/fifth-gear/videos/road-tests/seat-mii
 

Adam_

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That break thing will just be an excuse for crap driving to some people and when that fails there will be plenty of crashes....

On the up! side (see what i did there :lol:) i do like the look of the seats.
 

Ol' Timer

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I have to say, I like the idea of returning to cheap, uncomplicated and LIGHT cars. It seems to have gone too far in the other direction at the moment. They just need to inject a bit of fun into the handling and it's all good news.

It will be interesting to see which of the three brands is the biggest seller.
 

Krash

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looks promising mii seems to be the better looking of the 3 imo
auto brake thing - as good as it seems don't fancy someone testing towards the back of my car
 

iain1970

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I thought the review was lacking in any kind of detail to be honest. Interior shots? Demo of the (optional) media thing? I know he said it cost £7500, but even VW's pricing goes to beyond £12k for an Up with the bells and whistles.

Presumably, the braking thing knocks the car out of gear when it comes to a stop...
 

Nutkin

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I thought the review was lacking in any kind of detail to be honest. Interior shots? Demo of the (optional) media thing? I know he said it cost £7500, but even VW's pricing goes to beyond £12k for an Up with the bells and whistles.

Presumably, the braking thing knocks the car out of gear when it comes to a stop...

No it will stall the engine.
 

FR_Flavoured

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They demonstrated the emergency anti-crash feature, which was pretty spectacular. There is a laser monitoring the car in front and below 19 mph if it thinks you are going to collide with it, it applies the brakes. It is a bit of a gimmick but it seemed to work.

Honda has this feature built into a number of their model range - infact they have been using this "feature" for a few years already. Clever stuff, but as with all features like this, you can never 100% rely on these systems to prevent crashes, they should just be used as "aids".

On the Honda, the anti-crash technology doesnt stall the engine or knock the car out of gear :)blink: is that even possible) - both of which could be lethal for other reasons), it progressively applies the brakes just enough to prevent the vehicle getting too close to the car infront - increasing a safe distance between the 2 cars. Granted if the speed drops too much the engine might stall.

Perhaps SEAT does its thing in a more "intrusive" fashion - such as the extreme methods mentioned previously. :rolleyes:
Back on topic, the "MII" looks bland.
 
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cupraboy125

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Gotta agree with a lot of what has been said, interesting motor though, but is a little bland looking.
 

Exe_LeonCR

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This is already out in Spain i believe and is very well rated. My Mum has one of these on order if the Seat garage are right in what they are saying about it
 

AndyT_UK

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This is already out in Spain i believe and is very well rated. My Mum has one of these on order if the Seat garage are right in what they are saying about it

It's rated well, but importantly not selling that well in Spain at all. Does the front end design and silly name put off Spanish buyers too? Whoever signed off that stupid name needs sacking. Still annoys me that they chose to call the new Arosa something so meaningless.

On a positive note, it beats the new Fiat Panda easily in What Car review in this month's edition. I think they gave it 5 out of 5.
 
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