According to Autoguide, Seat are opening up the naming of their new model to the general public.
It's going to be an SUV slotting into their range above the Ateca which isn't a bad-looking car despite being an SUV:
There is certain samey-ness to most SUVs nowadays - mainstream manufacturers all seem to be concentrating on different sized cross-overs. Which is boring. But people keep buying the things so I can't really criticise the business model.
Shame.
Anyway, Autoguide announce that the new car won't end up with the name Carry McCarface. This is a reference to the Polar Research Ship The RRS Sir David Attenborough currently being built up the road from my house. That ship may have been called Boaty McBoatface if the general public had got their way.
But they didn't.
And Seat insist that their cars are named after Spanish places so it's not an issue.
And when they say "above the Ateca", they don't say if it will be a replacement for the Alhambra (which is more of a people-carrier) or it's going to fit into the range between the two.
I've checked the map and, depending on which route you take, half-way between Ateca and Alhambra is a small place called Buendía. Which means "Good Day" - a very positive name for a car.
Or they could go for a little town to the South-West of Pamplona.
Adiós.
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