What does FR mean

[Gary@Cookies]

One has to ask the question; if you're so fed up with your SEAT why bother going onto a website where, in the main, people are going on because they have a passion for SEATs?

Your'e not that far from us, feel free to bring it over, we'll have a look at it and put 20 years of SEAT experiance into trying to make you a happy owner again.

By the way, I was on the phone to SEAT marketing this morning and they confirmed it still stands for Formula Racing.

 

[Gary@Cookies]

Damn this new keyboard!!!!!!

My previous post was obviously a reply to Crafoo, I forgot to include his post in my reply.

 

[Crafoo]

I was a member when I used to own a Mk3 1.4 which was spot on and I never really had any problems with, so it's not like I decided just to sign up and bitch about Seat being rubbish, it's just since owning my current Mk4 things haven't exactly gone smoothly.

But yeah, Formula Racing

 

[Le0nheart]

Cupra = Cup Racing

Really? That's interesting to know, I always assumed that Cupra was just the Spanish word for tropy and had no meaning in English.

Nice one

 

[spenny2004]

fr is formula racing
Cupra i have been told is spanish for sport???

 

[Hugo Nebula]

I suspect the initials came first, then they thought about what they could stand for. What do the letters on any car's bootlid stand for?

 

[chrisboyle999]

spanish for sport???

el deporte

 

[kezFR07]

alr8, wat do u reckon to focus sts?

 

[Le0nheart]

alr8, wat do u reckon to focus sts?

Sports Technologies.

 

[thestonegate]

F***ing Rapid

second that!

 

[StuPDi]

Sports Technologies.

damn, and i thought it was Super Touring,

wasn't the Mondeo the first to be badged ST in-line with the change in touring car rules??



Stu

 

[Ruddmeister]

Really? That's interesting to know, I always assumed that Cupra was just the Spanish word for tropy and had no meaning in English.

Nice one

It's also why they dropped Cupra R (as used in Mk1 Leon & Mk3 Ibiza)..........makes no sense really

Cup Racing Racing

Well that and every manufacturer and his dog from Honda to Jaguar b1tched about Seat using the 'R' badge

 

[StuPDi]

It's also why they dropped Cupra R (as used in Mk1 Leon & Mk3 Ibiza)..........makes no sense really

Cup Racing Racing

Well that and every manufacturer and his dog from Honda to Jaguar b1tched about Seat using the 'R' badge

i remember the discussion threads at the time. but wasn't it the same "R" as in Golf "R"32 and Audi "R"s4/6 etc

subaru had a "type r" long before the civic came out!

Stu

 

[Ruddmeister]

i remember the discussion threads at the time. but wasn't it the same "R" as in Golf "R"32 and Audi "R"s4/6 etc

subaru had a "type r" long before the civic came out!

Stu

It was more that the Civic and LCR were thought to be direct competitors at the time, less complaints from other manufacturers.

Not sure what Ford thought when Audi brought in the RS range etc

 

[Ruddmeister]

subaru had a "type r" long before the civic came out!

Stu

UK / Euro car or import only ?

 

[kingkongsfinger]

Really? That's interesting to know, I always assumed that Cupra was just the Spanish word for tropy and had no meaning in English.

Nice one

Cup in Spanish is Copa.
Trophy is trofeo

And if you need it in a CVH engine this stands for compound valve angle hemispherical combustion chamber head.

 

[Maximus2000uk]

With an Audi, the "RS" initials stand for RennSport (German).

 

[StuPDi]

UK / Euro car or import only ?

Jap import ones, STi 4/5/6 (pre-bugeye) the 2-door coupe was badged 'type r'

the only 2 door classic impreza in the uk was the Prodrive version P1, (oh, and 16 STi 22B type uk) the rally car that the P1 was based on.


Stu