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Thanks to its Arona and Ateca SUVs, Seat is the general brand that accelerates the strongest on the French market in 2018. The Spanish manufacturer Volswagen Group wants to continue its growth in 2019 with the help of new Tarraco SUV. This last-born settles at the top of the range and it does not take long to guess its technical base: it was the one that served his cousins Skoda Kodiaq and Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace.
The Tarraco has a comfortable length of 4.74 m, a giant 5-seater trunk and an optional 7-seater version to target family customers who have turned their backs on minivans. The sliding bench seat in series and the modularity which allows to arrange the inside as it will be appreciated by those who practice leisure with bulky equipment. These are good arguments, but shared with his technical cousins.
To distinguish itself, the Seat Tarraco bet on its style which inaugurates the new design of the brand. At the front, its grille in high position will be on the future models of the brand. At the back, the pointed lights are connected by a red band. The set looks great, but the body sides are still marked by the Volkswagen footprint.
With its clean lines and frills, the Tarraco adopts codes more Germanic than Latin. It is even made in Germany, in the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg. The interior furniture also distinguishes the Tarraco from its cousins with a dashboard whose central screen in "floating" position lightens the presentation. All versions have counters with digital display.
The price of Seat Tarraco will start at around € 33,000 in the TSI 150 Style petrol version when orders are opened in December 2018, and the first deliveries are scheduled for February 2019. However, Seat France promises a customer price below € 30,000, which indicates 10% discount to launch the career of the vehicle. Our Tarraco Test TDI version 150 Style will point to 35 900 € (estimated price). It's an average fare for its competitors, but Seat hits hard with standard equipment. The standard Tarraco Style equipment includes full LED projectors, GPS navigation, 8-inch touch screen, digital badpit, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility, rear view camera, double boot floor and exterior chrome.
"To go from 5 to 7 seats, the Seat Tarraco claims 880 €"
The Tarraco range offers only two finishes: Style and Xcellence. The Reference finish, like the other Seat, is therefore discarded to start with a well-endowed offer. At the top of the range, the Xcellence (estimated at € 39,500 in TDI 150) is the big game: hands-free access and start, panoramic sunroof, electric tailgate, 360 ° camera, parking badistance, blind spot sensors and seats before Sport. The Tarraco are delivered in five places, we must add 880 € for the 7-seater version. Finally, the ecological malus side, it should be noted that the Tarraco TDI 150 reduces the tax to an event (124 g of CO2, or 70 € of penalty in 2019).
In addition to the 150 hp petrol and diesel versions, the Tarraco range will aim higher with the 2.0 TSI and TDI 190 hp. Versions delivered automatically with the all-wheel drive and DGS7 box, which will affect their price and penalty. We note, moreover, that there is a hole in the Tarraco range since it ignores the version 2.0 TDI 150 DSG7 4×2, yet popular in this segment. Same for TSI 150 DSG7 4×2. Competitors Skoda Kodiaq and Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace know the importance of these offers and they offer both versions to their catalog.
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