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Driven - Seat Leon TSI 92kW Xcellence (2018)

Hi there! Today I’m reviewing the Station Wagon derived from a Small Hatchback: the SEAT León. It was my rental for the past two weeks, and the variety of roads it was driven in made for a very deep knowledge of the car. Small hatchbacks, what do we know about them? Well, they’re mainly an European thing, as place for 5 and their luggage on a small-ish package are pretty must mandatory in most tightly packed, crowded European cities. And the VW Golf is that car, end of story. Fortunately, in the last couple of decades, some real alternatives starting to emerge. Opel has had the Astra since the nineties, with mixed results, Peugeot (306 and 307) and Renault (Mégane) were also winners but, for me, the biggest contender to the Golf’s (sales) supremacy has always been the Ford Focus. The self-called “New-Edge “ design from the first generation was maybe too much for most, and the interior quality a bit so-so, but underneath the body there has always been, since then, ...