I test drove the 115bhp version with upgraded 18” wheels on them and at 70mph I didn’t have to much road noise if I’m honest, a little bit of road noise but not as loud as you say it is. Really enjoyed the car and didn’t feel the car was too cheap inside either. Yeah no soft touch plastic but I’m not gonna be driving along rubbing my dashboard or door cards tbh. Only downside is non electric rear windows.
I'd found those so called soft touch materials on the door, centre console would start to peel after 2 or 3 years, I'm not sure if the climate has anything to do with it but Peugeot, BMW, Merc that I'd owned all had this issue.
Well James... Mat Watson did the review 3 month before you and he said that plastic is hard, but it does not look cheap... so its durable...and he also said that this car is a really good car... and to me , this car is one of the best looking in class...
Have any of you actually driven one? My wife and I did 3 days ago! Forget all this guff about hard plastics. It's actually a very nice place to be its solid, very comfortable seats and huge for its exterior size! Then there's the way it drives, it really is top notch, yes its ride is firm but its strangely comfortable. The steerings great and that engine is fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!. We were so impressed we ordered one in FR trim with the 1.0 tsi 115 HP engine in Moonlight grey. Also go and see one in the flesh pictures don't do it justice. Its a really good looking car.
Kukuruz Krupnoklipac No need to shout in BOLD letters! This engine has been available in other VAG products for a while now. With no real dramas. Most people who buy this car new, in the UK, will never see 50k so it will not be a problem.
We had an ibiza for a 3 day test drive. Lovely little car to drive, little 95 bhp engine was adequate enough and the media system I thought was great. Steering felt precise and seems to weight up when going faster speeds. City driving it goes nice and light. Visibility seemed good and i didnt find the rear view a problem. Wing mirrors also seem to give good view. Hard plastics seemed ok, we have a a1 s line and to be honest you dont notice unless looking at dashboards are your thing. Boot space is perfect and fits our buggy in, carry cot, baby bag, and still has enough room for a little shopping! Get our FR in mystery blue in November!
you failed to mention that 1.0 tsi engines come with different gearboxes. most powerful 1.0 tsi has a 6speed while others get a 5speed. which is the main reason why to go for the most powerful 1.0 tsi.
andy thomas I'm not sure how true that is actually. Virtually every newer Seat I see on the roads is an FR, whether it's driven by a young girl or an old grandad. The higher spec must be fairly affordable if few people seem to go for anything lower down.
This is a third time ive been kinda bothered by a single thing in one of these reviews. Why go thru the effort to correctly pronounce "Ibiza" and then say Skoda instead of Škoda?
Jan Šinkovec reminds me when I lived in the Czech Rep and they pronounced Chevrolet with the T audible (as in Chev-ro-let) on national TV adverts, was very odd. Languages often mangle other languages.
"Keep fit rear windows " i will remember that one when i go to the dealership , Ford's St line focus is the same unless you pay £850 for the convenience pack .
I don't know about you, but it *REALLY* irritates me that SEAT won't be building a Cupra version of this new Ibiza! The closest we will ever get to a Cupra version of this car is the 150 bhp 1.5L turbo petrol. And, SEAT also said that 150 bhp is enough power for a B-segment supermini like the Ibiza. Well, this means SEAT will be missing out on a piece of the B-segment hot hatch market, currently being dominated by Ford's Fiesta ST! Not to mention, VW will be releasing a new Polo GTI, complete with a 2.0L turbo petrol making 200 bhp! Why would a company like SEAT think 150 bhp would be enough power in a car like this?!
It's probably on orders from VW because of their new Polo (which is huge and looks like a Golf). Very frustrating. The Ibiza is great to drive, and the new one looks like a mini Leon and deserves more power!
Philz;... Jeeez!!! Well I'm trying, (to be calm). I certainly don’t miss the days of cranking up the window with one hand while helping it with the other. However, I'm not hating on 'back to the future' trends... I guess it leaves option for those with a frugal budget.
xcellence trim gets electric rear windows but you can't specify the higher output 1.0 TSI engine or Mystery Blue as seen in the FR spec car in the video.
Well we've finally got ours and its been worth the wait! I'll say it again its a great looking car and the hard plastics dont detract from the overall build quality. Its a super mini get over yourselves!!!!!
It doesn’t needs a 6 speed gear box because that means more weight to the car and to the engine the 5 speed is a much higher gear ⚙️ speed. You won’t force the engine that’s a great reliable economic well built car.
This, or the Mazda 2. I still don't know if I'll let go the skyactiv engine for the style of the Ibiza. But I gotta say it doesn't look like a £16k car.
Dont think seat got the styling quite right with the ibiza. even on the 18 inch wheels the wheelarches look to big, and the car seems on stilts. the design works much better on the polo, that basically has the same measurements but somehow the proportions work better.
Hi James, another well presented video. Thank you. I'm curious what did you graduate in? Were you always working in car reviews? What did you work as before you reviewed cars?
My brother has got a 2018 Seat Leon with FR trim and it's much nicer inside. I was expecting at least the FR Ibiza to have soft touch interiors and rear automatic windows though...
What bothers me the most is that piano black trim. It is used so much in so many cars that the whole point of luxury and personalization just doesn't exist anymore. Plus is just a piece of cheap shiny scratchy plastic nothing more. Something else that I notice and hate in all cars in that segment and not only, is the carpet in the boot. I see the same cheap awful material used for the last 30 years. Is it something that you touch everyday? No. As a matter of fact you might not even see it for a long time but it is also used on the floor and there is no one that can convince me that all that time they couldn't find at least one material that doesn't cost much and looks and feels better. It's lazy, it's cheap, ( even on a segment where "cheap" is almost self-evident) and so unimaginative. No matter how many creases you put on the exterior.
Here in Portugal Ibizas are pretty much for the tuning crowd, modified diesel ibizas with the back all covered in soot due to the black smoke coming out of the muffler. Kinda devalues the brand, in my opinion
Why do all car reviews say how Seat is now a "sporty / stylish" brand...they look decent (quite like the angles and the led headlights) but generally pretty bland. Almost as if VAG is telling the reviewers what to say😳😂
The only thing about this new car that make the difference or better is the interior space. I don't feel any attraction about the design it has cold lines and nothing special is boring. The Ford Fiesta is a win for me it's a fact has less space but have charisma and unique personality about the interior and exterior. It's still continues Ford period.
Nice review, just shame how VW controls Seat and Skoda that their cars are worse, while VW shines. Really hate VW for this, I'd like to believe dieselgate is like kinda karma for them!
Very fake cars this days and damn too expensive! The beats system , the specs says its 300w subwoofer LOL No, in reality its only 60w! The amplifier is only 200g weight hahahahhaa For that money u can buy a real 800w sound system. The interior plastic is magnet for dust. I tried style version with 95HP and when you push it , you can feel like you drive a diesel. 1.0l with turbo ?? That engine will blow up when it reach 50k km. And this stupid expensive kessy packs....the most easiest way to steal the car.
brake pedal is in higher height than throttle pedal. It should be like in fiesta. The Sun this days shines stronger than before so on the windshield you will get a nice and large display of your dashboard.
And about colors, they made ECO vehicle but wit dark blue color which costs 0 Euro. The white should be the main color instead because of the sun-rays.
What's weight got to do with output power? There are many ways to reduce weight on an amplifier. Ever heard of Class D? And what about using the car's chassis as the heat sink?
Oliver Schnabel put them both side by side and there is very little between them apart from some led lights which have been on most cars since 2010 and I am sorry that interior is a joke cheap shiny plastic on a 16k car are seat stuck in the 90s at least the French can make better interiors now and will last longer even the new Micra is better bloody built.
Great review, you put emphasis on style, yet the car looks quite dated and ugly. Just like the new Areca and facelift Leon. All of the Seat range look boring, boxy and as though they were styled in the 80's.
mipmipmipmipmip I agree that the new Polo is ugly. Because it is, extremely so. The cabin is simply awful, however, the Golf is boxy. Very boxy, yet it's classy and good looking, same for the Passat, Touran and Golf SV, however, the same can't be said for the Tiguan. That is ugly.
I test drove the 115bhp version with upgraded 18” wheels on them and at 70mph I didn’t have to much road noise if I’m honest, a little bit of road noise but not as loud as you say it is. Really enjoyed the car and didn’t feel the car was too cheap inside either. Yeah no soft touch plastic but I’m not gonna be driving along rubbing my dashboard or door cards tbh. Only downside is non electric rear windows.
Why do reviewers emphasise the soft touch dash. How often do you actually spend squishing the dashboard?
I'd found those so called soft touch materials on the door, centre console would start to peel after 2 or 3 years, I'm not sure if the climate has anything to do with it but Peugeot, BMW, Merc that I'd owned all had this issue.
StereotypedFilms maybe it's the climate, those soft touch plastics may not take hot climate well, this happened both Australia and Malaysia.
@PhiveWalls he's correct
chappy2121 soft touch materials make the cabin less noisey and thus increase ride quality
I don't understand, the golf mk7 gti has hard plastic on the door, not on the top of that but on the bottom yes.
Every morning when I get in my car, I like to start the journey by caressing the top of my dashboard.
Zanzibar2Far 😂😂😆
Best comment I’ve seen on cars reviews
I've just bought one- It's a fantastic little car. And I didn't think the 18" alloys were noisy at all.
Well James... Mat Watson did the review 3 month before you and he said that plastic is hard, but it does not look cheap... so its durable...and he also said that this car is a really good car... and to me , this car is one of the best looking in class...
Have any of you actually driven one? My wife and I did 3 days ago! Forget all this guff about hard plastics. It's actually a very nice place to be its solid, very comfortable seats and huge for its exterior size! Then there's the way it drives, it really is top notch, yes its ride is firm but its strangely comfortable. The steerings great and that engine is fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!. We were so impressed we ordered one in FR trim with the 1.0 tsi 115 HP engine in Moonlight grey. Also go and see one in the flesh pictures don't do it justice. Its a really good looking car.
Geoff Hallam I also think the new Ibiza is a great car! How long is the delivery time?
Oliver Schnabel we are currently waiting for a build and delivery date. The dealer said possibly sometime in September.
Just been told delivery will be around 30th September.
I already said i did drive . READ.
Kukuruz Krupnoklipac No need to shout in BOLD letters! This engine has been available in other VAG products for a while now. With no real dramas. Most people who buy this car new, in the UK, will never see 50k so it will not be a problem.
We had an ibiza for a 3 day test drive. Lovely little car to drive, little 95 bhp engine was adequate enough and the media system I thought was great. Steering felt precise and seems to weight up when going faster speeds. City driving it goes nice and light. Visibility seemed good and i didnt find the rear view a problem. Wing mirrors also seem to give good view. Hard plastics seemed ok, we have a a1 s line and to be honest you dont notice unless looking at dashboards are your thing. Boot space is perfect and fits our buggy in, carry cot, baby bag, and still has enough room for a little shopping! Get our FR in mystery blue in November!
'Its got a wireless charger' *places iPhone down*
Disappointing? It's Seat, it is cheap, materials are cheap, but they offer VW engines. That's THE selling point
you failed to mention that 1.0 tsi engines come with different gearboxes. most powerful 1.0 tsi has a 6speed while others get a 5speed. which is the main reason why to go for the most powerful 1.0 tsi.
Great review as always, but I wish you would review the mid range spec most people would actually buy like the se.
andy thomas I'm not sure how true that is actually. Virtually every newer Seat I see on the roads is an FR, whether it's driven by a young girl or an old grandad. The higher spec must be fairly affordable if few people seem to go for anything lower down.
This is a third time ive been kinda bothered by a single thing in one of these reviews. Why go thru the effort to correctly pronounce "Ibiza" and then say Skoda instead of Škoda?
Jan Šinkovec Because that's how both words are pronounced in the UK, like it or not. I hate 'through' being spelt 'thru'. 😉
Jan Šinkovec reminds me when I lived in the Czech Rep and they pronounced Chevrolet with the T audible (as in Chev-ro-let) on national TV adverts, was very odd. Languages often mangle other languages.
Jan Šinkovec I can see by your comment that you are from Czech Republic 😂
"Keep fit rear windows " i will remember that one when i go to the dealership , Ford's St line focus is the same unless you pay £850 for the convenience pack .
"The doors also open" ok, i am sold!
I don't know about you, but it *REALLY* irritates me that SEAT won't be building a Cupra version of this new Ibiza! The closest we will ever get to a Cupra version of this car is the 150 bhp 1.5L turbo petrol.
And, SEAT also said that 150 bhp is enough power for a B-segment supermini like the Ibiza. Well, this means SEAT will be missing out on a piece of the B-segment hot hatch market, currently being dominated by Ford's Fiesta ST!
Not to mention, VW will be releasing a new Polo GTI, complete with a 2.0L turbo petrol making 200 bhp!
Why would a company like SEAT think 150 bhp would be enough power in a car like this?!
It's probably on orders from VW because of their new Polo (which is huge and looks like a Golf). Very frustrating. The Ibiza is great to drive, and the new one looks like a mini Leon and deserves more power!
Wait for Cupra Ibiza ;)
How reliable is the DSG gear and the turbo 1.0 l 115 engine...
Wind up window handles in a 17 plate car in the 2nd half of 2017..!!!!?
Are you serious; DAMN!!!
It's an option on the new Fiesta, it's a supermini lad calm down
Philz;... Jeeez!!!
Well I'm trying, (to be calm).
I certainly don’t miss the days of cranking up the window with one hand while helping it with the other.
However, I'm not hating on 'back to the future' trends...
I guess it leaves option for those with a frugal budget.
xcellence trim gets electric rear windows but you can't specify the higher output 1.0 TSI engine or Mystery Blue as seen in the FR spec car in the video.
It's only on the back seat widows though? At least it shows the kids what we had to do in 90s :D
Quentin Wilson's love child. Would have fitted in well on 1980's Top Gear.
ay james that door bin isnt the only thing thats swallowing up tonight😂
Seat is definitely not selling these from people watching this review.
After 20 km/h the ports close automatically?
So batchelors love crisps
What colour is the car in this video mystery blue or Mediterranean blue?
Well we've finally got ours and its been worth the wait! I'll say it again its a great looking car and the hard plastics dont detract from the overall build quality. Its a super mini get over yourselves!!!!!
Hi is a Skoda Fabia quieter in the cabin than this car?
can some one answer plz, is there a road noise or wind noise?
even my dads Dacia Logam from 2007 has electric power rear and front windows...
One of my favourite brand of crisps I get here in Malaysia :P
Please review the SE spec 95 hp version. That's the one most people will get.
they spent all the money on the exterior. style over substance
Sounds kinda familiar, that's what people do with their lifes
yup agreed. sad
...agree and not even much style either!
Great review as always Jim
CRISSPPSSSSSSSS
Michel Ghanem criSpSS
Very nice review.
Yea...because british man will always say that fiesta comes first before all other cars.
It doesn’t needs a 6 speed gear box because that means more weight to the car and to the engine the 5 speed is a much higher gear ⚙️ speed. You won’t force the engine that’s a great reliable economic well built car.
I hate the way the doors sound when they're shut. Very tinny sound and why isn't there an arm rest?!
This, or the Mazda 2. I still don't know if I'll let go the skyactiv engine for the style of the Ibiza. But I gotta say it doesn't look like a £16k car.
Dont think seat got the styling quite right with the ibiza. even on the 18 inch wheels the wheelarches look to big, and the car seems on stilts. the design works much better on the polo, that basically has the same measurements but somehow the proportions work better.
I think a lot people will chose the leon over this as it doesn't come in 3dr anymore
Hard plastic on the door? I don't understand, the golf mk7 gti has hard plastic on the door, not on the top of that but on the bottom yes.
Hi James, another well presented video. Thank you. I'm curious what did you graduate in? Were you always working in car reviews? What did you work as before you reviewed cars?
I wish thay would do a Audi Quattro review
I like this guy, he's like Jimmy Carr's brother.
Why call chips crisps?
My brother has got a 2018 Seat Leon with FR trim and it's much nicer inside. I was expecting at least the FR Ibiza to have soft touch interiors and rear automatic windows though...
C'mon, how often do you touch the dashboard ? and how often do you wind the windows down in the back. The car has climate control.
What bothers me the most is that piano black trim. It is used so much in so many cars that the whole point of luxury and personalization just doesn't exist anymore. Plus is just a piece of cheap shiny scratchy plastic nothing more. Something else that I notice and hate in all cars in that segment and not only, is the carpet in the boot. I see the same cheap awful material used for the last 30 years. Is it something that you touch everyday? No. As a matter of fact you might not even see it for a long time but it is also used on the floor and there is no one that can convince me that all that time they couldn't find at least one material that doesn't cost much and looks and feels better. It's lazy, it's cheap, ( even on a segment where "cheap" is almost self-evident) and so unimaginative. No matter how many creases you put on the exterior.
seat offers the Ibiza in 5 trims: S, SE, FR and Xcellence. right.
Here in Portugal Ibizas are pretty much for the tuning crowd, modified diesel ibizas with the back all covered in soot due to the black smoke coming out of the muffler.
Kinda devalues the brand, in my opinion
Bugside almighty where in portugal are you buddy
Looks and style count in this world says someone who has neither. 😂
The entry models got a black and white touch screen wtf haha
Five trim levels .... You mentioned four. ... What is that elusive fifth model ? ....... or that a secret for another video !!
The Z gets me every time!
Even my friend Ibiza from 2000 has electric windows at the back.
friend's*
The scratchy plastics arent unusual in the VW group, pretty sure the same complaint was made when the new Tiguan was released
too much filters looks like the walking dead
A brand new car reminds you of an old Golf and that's a compliment? Ok...
Door mirrors, not wing mirrors.
Where is Ginny :( ?
What a disappointing car from seat, the looks has the potential to sell the most in this class
its absolutely perfect for me but its only available as a 3dr
sweet car ,it,s good for my son.
Great car!!!!!!!!
Is SEAT fucking kidding us?? Manual windows at the back! WTF that is just unacceptable.
Ibiza or Ibifa ?
It won't do anywhere near 60mpg,35 to 40 more like.
thebanditsix currently averaging 48mpg only on 800miles so this will get better! Better fuel economy than a friends fiesta ecoboost!!!!!!!!!!!
Its Ibiza not Ibifa
Why he pronounce Ibiza way he does ?
It's an ALL NEW Seat everyone! Oh.. wait.. it's the same as last years AGAIN ¬.¬
CD player?
Why do you pronounce it "Ibi-TH-a"?
Because that's how it is pronounced.
Why do all car reviews say how Seat is now a "sporty / stylish" brand...they look decent (quite like the angles and the led headlights) but generally pretty bland.
Almost as if VAG is telling the reviewers what to say😳😂
No electronic parking break, wind up windows and no arm rest,, when was this car designed 2005?
Stop going on about the plastics. It's a cheap and responsible car. It's made to be affordable. Stop with the f@&king plastic
This guy is tiny. Is there a car in which he doesn't have enough space in the back? Lol
The only thing about this new car that make the difference or better is the interior space. I don't feel any attraction about the design it has cold lines and nothing special is boring. The Ford Fiesta is a win for me it's a fact has less space but have charisma and unique personality about the interior and exterior. It's still continues Ford period.
Again crisps in glovebox...wtf?
Mate you have no idea what your talking about, the whole appeal of seat is that they are cheap cars with VW engines.
I love scratchy plastics! 😂
Nice review, just shame how VW controls Seat and Skoda that their cars are worse, while VW shines. Really hate VW for this, I'd like to believe dieselgate is like kinda karma for them!
Who cares about the plastic
I only watched half of this review as the man is so annoying.
trendy GRANNY car
Why thank you, Grandson
They stil make cranks for windows? Vag never disappoints lol
I like cranks for windows, I remember my dad's Peugeot Zest having them
No thanks I'd go the new fiesta
No thanks I've got the old Fiesta and 125 hp ecoboost
Ibitha
Very fake cars this days and damn too expensive! The beats system , the specs says its 300w subwoofer LOL No, in reality its only 60w! The amplifier is only 200g weight hahahahhaa For that money u can buy a real 800w sound system. The interior plastic is magnet for dust. I tried style version with 95HP and when you push it , you can feel like you drive a diesel. 1.0l with turbo ?? That engine will blow up when it reach 50k km. And this stupid expensive kessy packs....the most easiest way to steal the car.
brake pedal is in higher height than throttle pedal. It should be like in fiesta. The Sun this days shines stronger than before so on the windshield you will get a nice and large display of your dashboard.
And about colors, they made ECO vehicle but wit dark blue color which costs 0 Euro. The white should be the main color instead because of the sun-rays.
What's weight got to do with output power? There are many ways to reduce weight on an amplifier. Ever heard of Class D? And what about using the car's chassis as the heat sink?
B
The poor man's Audi...
fabian78 it’s 16 grand new. Not cheap either
Yuk. Cheap and nasty. And expensive with it.
is he a fairy?
Here before 1K views
Not very good build quality, unrefined and a harsh ride and a disappointing gearbox. What an underwhelming car. I would never buy it.
I felt the opposite compared to much more expensive cars actually.
peacegod1 I disagree
So it's expensive, sparsely equipped, cheaply made and is deafening at 70mph? Fro an all new model, I would say that is very disappointing...
Stylish? Are your eyes in the right way, lad?
It looks no different to the old one just looks like a mild face lift seat is now getting lazy like VW with styling
Ben Garlick Are you blind?
Oliver Schnabel put them both side by side and there is very little between them apart from some led lights which have been on most cars since 2010 and I am sorry that interior is a joke cheap shiny plastic on a 16k car are seat stuck in the 90s at least the French can make better interiors now and will last longer even the new Micra is better bloody built.
@@ben3291 Seat stuck in the 1990s is cool imo
Great review, you put emphasis on style, yet the car looks quite dated and ugly. Just like the new Areca and facelift Leon. All of the Seat range look boring, boxy and as though they were styled in the 80's.
I think you have confused the SEAT range with the Volkswagon range xD Boxy is the new polo not ibiza.
mipmipmipmipmip I agree that the new Polo is ugly. Because it is, extremely so. The cabin is simply awful, however, the Golf is boxy. Very boxy, yet it's classy and good looking, same for the Passat, Touran and Golf SV, however, the same can't be said for the Tiguan. That is ugly.
Dan Cooper No mate. I clearly are not. It is ugly. Get over the car. Get over yourself.
iScoTT29 No the polo will be better built than this horrible cheaply built small hatchback.
Liam Lamond Exactly! Still, I'd rather have a Fiesta over the competition.
Nah, the Nissan Micra is.
No for this guy
...the new Micra looks better than this.
VW cars are really bad in the inside. Quality is low and full of hard plastic
I should know we have the new Tiguan.