SEAT Mii revealed

Quite attractive externally, but boy, how boring, cheap and nasty is that inside?
Hire car use only I'm afraid!

By hsbcgeoff on 3 October, 2011, 9:43am

up! What's that?

This and the Skoda Citigo look better than VW's offering - which makes little sense considering the up is the basis for both of these. Yeah, this one does look cheap inside, but city cars are meant to be cheap to buy and cheap to run and fun. This also harks back to the Arosa. Good stuff Seat, good stuff!

By chaardy on 3 October, 2011, 9:50am

Ideal City Car

I remember when the Arosa was launched, I really fancied one, but the only dealer locally folded and there wasn't one within a reasonable distance. Now that Seat have a decent dealer network, there's no reason why this shouldn't sell really well. Fair enough, the interior looks basic but that could mean less to go wrong, or break. Personally, I'm going for the Skoda, simply because the dealer is nearer. Had the Seat dealer been closer, I'd have gone for a Mii.

By n50pap on 3 October, 2011, 10:43am

3 is a crowd?

Seems a bit of a missed opportunity Seat and Skoda weren't given more of a free reign in the design of their respective models, they seem to have more independence with the Polo-based Ibiza and Fabia, here is just badge-engineering, as all three look the same and they'll be everywhere I think I will go for the 2012 Fiat Panda thank you!

By JFalck on 3 October, 2011, 11:40am

4 is also a crowd

Because audi will eventually hatch one. Also at least for the seat I see decent plastic instead of that piece of shit shiny ipod like that VW is using!

By giorikas81 on 3 October, 2011, 11:49am

Aygo etc?

We have been used to the VW group producing quite different cars on similar platforms and similar engines. This looks much like the up! and the Skoda version. What is it with mini/city cars, that they all end up looking the same? Much like the Toyota Aygo and its two French triplet sisters. We will have to look hard for the badge to see whether to genuflect or not as one of them goes past ;).

By PMinAU149 on 3 October, 2011, 2:01pm

Mii too

How do you pronounce that name? Like Wii I suppose. And I thought CitiGo was daft... I don't think this will help the Seat brand apart from in Spain. Are those seats made from raffia? How very organic. And some of the panel fits are terrible. At least it's a nice bright colour.

By Anorak17 on 4 October, 2011, 8:20am

Daft optional Navi-thingy

By making it so the device is not integrated into the dash, I expect owners of higher specc'ed up!/CitiGo/Mii models to have to carry the screen with them to avoid it being stolen like so many other portable sat-nave type things.
As for the car itself, the basic interior reminds me of my late father's original Polo, so it's none the worst for that. Reliability from all these variants needs to be good, though, because it's pitched right into the heartland of the cheaper Kias and Hyundais with their long warranties.
With such similarities between the variants, however, only those with more money than sense will opt for the VW version.

By snappyuk on 4 October, 2011, 8:26am

Looks like the VW Up!

Looks like the up!, but with (I think) a nicer looking front grill and bumper. Should be good.

By badboyrocco on 4 October, 2011, 12:31pm

Missed Opportunity

It's not often the Volkswagen version is the best looker, but in this case it beats the Skoda and Seat hands down. I didn't expect much from the Skoda version and wasn't disappointed but I thought Seats were supposed to be dynamic and sporting, but this is dull, dull, dull. The up! definitely has the edge.

By erly5 on 4 October, 2011, 1:10pm

They should call this car iros!

To be consistent with dropping Lupo for up! and as in Spanish they write and inverted exclamation mark (not the letter "i") in the begging of an exclamation sentence (word in this case) then dropping the last and least letter of AROSA we get iros!

By vetex007 on 4 October, 2011, 11:57pm

Name it Arosa?

Why don't they just name it 'Arosa'? 1. People know and grew to love that name, 2. "Mii" just translates into English as "My!" not exactly original or of any relation to Spain. VW should just drop the drab "Fox" as well, and name the "Up!" as "Lupo", again people grew to love that name as well. Then I come to the Skoda "CITIGO", maybe it could be called the "Felicia" as by today's size standards the original "Felicia" would be a city car if it was new now.

By danielcrawford on 5 October, 2011, 2:20am