2017 Seat Arona (rumor)
As big as the SUV market is right now, it’s still
growing, and more are jumping on the bandwagon. Seat launched its first ever
SUV earlier this year, the Ateca and will follow up with a smaller
one based on the upcoming new Ibiza next year. It will be called the Arona, and
it has been confirmed to debut at 2017 Frankfurt show in September, Autocar
reports.
The Arona is named after a city on the Spanish
island of Tenerife and will be built at Seat’s Martorell headquarters in
Barcelona. Like the upcoming fifth-gen Ibiza, the B-segment SUV will use the A0
platform from the VW Group’s modular MQB architecture. The Ateca’s smaller
sibling should follow the same angular look, which will set it apart from
classmates such as the Nissan Juke and Renault Captur.
