Seat in sexy e-sportster shock

It's a VW corrado

It's a VW Corrado(?) body though innit?

Whoop de doo

So it's a Seat re-branding of the Scirocco with some hybrid tech. Yawn.

At first I read

"Seats in sexy e-sportster shock"

IBE

IBE... IBiza Electric, anybody?

So what we're looking at is a new Ibiza Concept with an electric drivetrain shoved into it for press column inches?

What's an 80 mile range really translate to?

Given that most practical tests suggest the 'up to x miles range' is about as optimistic as my ISP telling me I'll get 'up to 8Mb/s broadband'

I'd wager 80 becomes 50. Somewhat less if it's raining and you need the lights and heater on.

Actually, how long before the batteries start to suffer? We're all aware that rechargeable cells slowly degrade; their ability to hold a charge and their discharge profile becomes somewhat more erratic.

I can well imagine replacing the cells will be part of the annual service and surely, this'll affect its green credentials somewhat. It'll certainly affect my pocket - you know we'll have to use Seat cells in a Seat if we want to maintain the warranty..."Hi! Dropping my car in for its service. Wow, that looks just like a tube of KY! What'd ya use that fo....ing heck, that made my eyes water!"

Coat because the man looks like he's already assumed the position.

Mmm, nice

Would be reaaly nice with a 280 bhp V6

Looks nice but..

Looks nice but I can't see that it serves much of a practical purpose until they magically can squeeze more power into these things. As Ball Boy says, some recent roadtests of all electric vehicles show that the stated range is pretty much the absolute best case scenario.

Although the Chevrolet Volt (or Opel/Vauxhall Ampera) is a good deal less sexy, the addition of a small petrol engine does at least mean that you actually go to places in it..

pales in comparison

to the Ginetta G50 EV :)

and yes its a rebadged mesed up VW

fairly nice though

I was thinking of a Renault

Have European cars got *that* homogenized?

That said I think it looks good and seems like the sort of performance for pulling away at the lights.

Let's face it all that cruising along the autostrada and bahn of Europe with not a car in sight is so much car company BS.

How will it do at the lights in Swindon is what counts.

I do not have a title!

"not much cop for tooling up the motorway, which is surely what you want a sports coupé for"

If that's the best use you have for a sports coupé, then it's wasted on you.

"Sportster"? Really?

0-60 in 10 seconds? A sports car? Our company box truck is faster than that. Hell, I'm not sure I've driven anything that slow since I retired my '93 Escort that had 200k miles and a blown head gasket.

8 seconds in the CRZ is wretched. This is flat-out pathetic. And yet you blithely regurgitate the press release without question? Blech.

Zero local emissions ? is the power stationj so far away ?

Zero local emissions, does that mean the power station that burns gas/ coal/oil is not local to you ?

the efficiency of the charger can never be 100%, so you will always produce CO2 etc emissions in excess of your KWH as part of the cost of the recharge.

Looks like a concept...

...therefore not really worth talking about.

Also 0-60 is rubbish, bet the battery weighs a fair bit too.

They'll get there in the end.