Our Fleet Test Drive: Seat Exeo ST - 11th Report
Date:
28 October 2010
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Author: Rachel Burgess
Handbrake
The Exeo ST is proving popular with the BusinessCar team, and only minor qualms are rearing their ugly heads, one of which is seemingly a design fault.
When the handbrake is applied it clashes with the armrest (see above). The armrest does move to a vertical position to rectify this, but for the driver, it is far more comfortable when horizontal. This area of the car can also become a veritable mess of wires when an iPod is plugged into the aux socket and a kid's DVD player is plugged into the cigarette lighter.
Seat Exeo ST 2.0 TDI 143hp | Mileage | 7356 | Claimed combined consumption | 51.4mpg | Our average consumption | 37.6mpg | P11D price | £21,215 | CO2 (tax) | 143g/km CO2 | BIK 20/40% per month | £71/£141 | Service interval | 10,000mls | Insurance | group 24 | Warranty | 3yrs/60,000mls | Boot space (min/max) | 442/1354 litres | Engine size/power | 1968cc/143hp | Top speed/0-62mph | 129mph/9.6secs | Why we’re running it | Seat’s first foray into estate market | Positive | Good public reaction to car | Negative | Too few people know what it is |
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