The Seat Leon is a five-door hatchback that makes up for its Volkswagen Golf-derived underpinnings with design flair and sporty good looks. The 2005-12 Seat Leon is fun to drive, economical to run in its diesel forms and affordable to buy.

The chairman of Spanish manufacturer Seat has confirmed that the company will no longer produce cars after the current crop of models reach the end of their life cycles. Thomas Schäfer said “the future of Seat is Cupra”, indicating all car-making resources will go into the performance and electric vehicle (EV) brand that spun off from Seat

Everything on this car is included in FR spec as standard. Including the automatic gearbox: this mild-hybrid Leon only comes with a DSG, though you can have any of the non-hybrid Leons with a manual.

^{For a cash buyer, it’s pricier than the Skoda Scala and a little more expensive than the more popular versions of the Seat Leon but it's cheaper than the Audi A3, the BMW 1 Series, the Ford}

It's a fair bit quicker than a Toyota Corolla 1.8 Hybrid, although a Seat Leon 1.5 TSI 130 is noticeably faster. There’s also a 1.5-litre diesel (badged 1.5 BlueHDI 130) that pumps out an

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