It has its trolls over there and inforcers that everything is good about the
Ateca. The inforcers seem to have disappeared to an extent but some trolls remain.
They didn't like it when I pointed out the two deficiencies of the
Ateca. The way it's finished off with lots of plastic inside towards the back. The other one is lack of front passenger legroom. As it turns out the quality of plastic has gone down these days so it's probably inline with others, better than Nissan. The legroom, depends what car you had before. If you are coming from a medium MPV like the Altea or bigger the passenger legroom at the front is terrible. For people who previously had Leons it's marginally worse but this is RHD form, so not sure in LHD how it works out. Your left foot has to be brought backwards, you can't get it out. I look at the partner and ask, where have you got your feet, normally, left back, right front forwards. They are one of these double jointed people who can double cross their legs in that position, I can't.
You can't open glovebox without it on your knees. That side of it is a joke but a joke that the VAG group slipped into their three car SUV. Clearly for Leon owners the
Ateca is a natural fit to an SUV, if use to something bigger what you need hasn't been launched in the Seat line up yet. The Seat larger SUV will be the equivalent of the Kodiaq which has loads of front passenger legroom. Twas all too much for the trolls when I told them that. I only tried out LHD demo vehicles before I ordered it in the pre launch period and never checked the front passenger legroom, just the driving position.
The web designer of that board nicked my pictures from here which were the first pictures of the
Ateca in the UK, May 2016 at Silverstone. So I registered there. The amusing thing is that my posts of factual information frequently get drawn up which must annoy the trolls. The
Ateca reinforcers who can't stand anything being said bad about the
Ateca are getting out numbered now
. Saying that they ran a number of campaigns on people and drove them off the boards. The owner of the said board does nothing about the trolls since he wants advertising clicks. I'm happy to post up factual information here to undermining his advertising clicks and the trolls. Basically the
Ateca contains the same VAG components but is late to market. Many of the issues that people are having on front assist were reported from 2013 on the Golf 7. The alignment issues on the front windscreen camera and VAGs equipment for four wheel alignment have been discussed elsewhere with some solutions. The latter they haven't got onto yet
. You strong arm your tyre workshop to put the front wheels on dead centre before they do the rear allignment although I haven't attempted to ask for that yet, that way you aren't suppose to need VAG wheel alignment equipment. Some workshops may refuse to touch the
Ateca on four wheel alignment.
Seatcupra board has always been about projects, maintenance issues, not a car fanzine board as the other is or was. I personally don't have a
problem with the car except it's a step backwards for me as a passenger when not driving it. Thus it makes drives across the continent uncomfortable when you are not driving, least if 6'1" and not prepared to drop the seats on the basis it triggers backache. I was told I must drop the seats to get comfortable - dah. As a tall driver and with the panoramic roof it's perfectly fine. 6'5" drivers with the sun roof find it fine. That's why I'll be getting the bigger one if it's like the
Ateca but has the same front passenger legroom as the Kodiaq. Will be nice to get back what I lost in comfort, this one will go to the partner for use on shorter runs. Will specify it the same but add DCC. I love the electronics in the car.