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Get ready for an adrenaline-pumping adventure with Jim Starling, as he reviews the sleek and powerful Seat Ateca!  The Seat Ateca might boast a sleek and simple design, but don't let that fool you! It's a masterclass in practicality, offering a driving experience that seamlessly blends style and substance. From its exterior aesthetics to the thoughtfully designed interior, Jim takes you on a tour that showcases how simplicity meets functionality making the Ateca an absolute game-changer for families everywhere.  Don't forget to subscribe to our channel and hit the notification bell so you never miss a video!  ------------------ Enjoyed this video? Don't forget to LIKE and SHARE the video and get involved with our community by leaving a COMMENT below the video!   Check out what else our channel has to offer and don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to Men & Motors for more classic car and motorbike content! Why not? It is free after all!   ----- Social Media -----  Follow us on social media by clicking the link below to elevate your social media experience by connecting with us! https://menandmotors.start.page  If you have any questions, e-mail us at talk@menandmotors.com  © Men and Motors - One Media iP 2024

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00:00 Hello folks, welcome to Men and Motors. Today I'm here with the SEAT Ateca. This is the

00:07 1.5 turbo petrol version and it's in SE technology trim. Now this starts at about 33 grand, the

00:14 one I've got here today is 34 because it's got an optional 2 on it. That gets you 110

00:19 PS of power, it's got the DSG automatic gearbox in this one, MPG is around about 39 to 42

00:29 and really it gives you all the performance you need for this kind of car. You can also

00:34 get a 1 litre petrol 3 cylinder version. I'd probably go for this one, it's got 4 cylinders,

00:41 it does also have some technology in that can basically deactivate 2 of those cylinders

00:46 when it doesn't need them. So when you're cruising on the motorway at 70 for example,

00:51 it'll switch off a couple of the cylinders, thus saving you a few readies on your fuel

00:55 bill. Now the Ateca was launched in 2016 and it's the sister car if you like of the Skoda

01:02 Karoq. There are certainly funkier looking cars around, I mean the main rivals for this

01:07 car apart from the Karoq will be things like the Kia Sportage, the Nissan Qashqai, all

01:14 similar kind of money as well. And there's certainly more interesting designs on one

01:19 hand, however you can say sometimes those more interesting designs don't date as well.

01:25 This might not be the most exciting car to look at in its class but I sort of somehow

01:31 feel like it's going to grow old a bit more gracefully than one or two of the others perhaps.

01:38 By the way, although this is similar money to the Qashqai and the Sportage, it's 3 grand

01:43 less than the Peugeot 3008. So onto the interior and I think you'd call it sort of a clay

01:49 classic and familiar design. Certainly if you've been in a VW group car in the last

01:55 10 years, this will all be very familiar to you but don't necessarily think I'm saying

02:00 something negative there. I feel like this is a case of if it ain't broke, don't fix

02:06 it. There are certainly more interesting looking interiors, certainly funkier interiors in

02:11 some of the car's rivals but in terms of functionality and ergonomics, everything's pretty good.

02:19 We don't have any silly haptics on the steering wheel. We've got physical dials, physical

02:24 buttons. The steering wheel's lovely. VW group, if you want to know how to do your

02:28 steering wheels in future, do them like you're used to. This works brilliantly well, as good

02:34 as anything on the market at the moment. No need for any haptic controls. The infotainment

02:39 system has touch controls on it but you can obviously control volume and things over here

02:44 with a proper dial if you so wish. On this SE technology model, it's a 9.2 inch touch

02:50 screen. Really nice crisp resolution, nice and bright, really good colours. Android Auto

02:56 and Apple CarPlay, the Apple CarPlay being completely wireless. It does take a little

03:02 while to connect to the car when you first get in, maybe 10 seconds or something. First

03:07 world problems, I know, but I'm here to pick faults in these things I guess. But yeah,

03:13 it's a joy to live with really. No issues with it whatsoever. Physical buttons and dials

03:19 again for your air conditioning. Why wouldn't you? It works. Over here we've got a really

03:25 nice bright vivid colour digital display. Really great actually that. It's not the full

03:31 virtual cockpit that you can get in some of the higher level trims, but you might have

03:36 seen that in Audis and various other VW group cars. However, I don't think you really need

03:41 it. This is so good and the information on it is all relevant. I don't think you need

03:47 to mess about with it too much. And because the infotainment system is just there facing

03:51 towards you as the driver, just ever so slightly, I don't think you need to go up that trim

03:56 level. I think this spec works perfectly well and it would do for most people. The seats

04:02 are very comfortable in this. They are cloth apart from a couple of tiny little bits of

04:07 leather trim. There is a lower lumbar support, although I've had far better in other cars,

04:11 I have to say. But yeah, they suit the car well. They're not sports bucket seats or anything.

04:17 They're really nice and comfortable, but you're not sort of sliding around in them as you're

04:20 going up and down the road. Some of the plastics in here are not the best. You've got some

04:25 really hard, sort of slightly cheaper feeling stuff down here, slightly squidgier up here.

04:31 That's not really a problem in everyday usage. You just have to wonder how they might wear

04:35 over time. To be honest, I think they'll be absolutely fine, but it's not the plushest

04:40 or fanciest interior. What it is, is reasonably utilitarian, but very, very easy to sit in,

04:48 use everything and not be distracted by having to go through your infotainment screen for

04:53 basic functions or having to try and work out how to use this slidey thing to make it

04:59 warmer, colder or turn the volume down on the radio. It's good. Very, very good. In

05:05 the back of the car, it's a very similar story to the front, really. It's not very excited,

05:11 not very imaginative perhaps, but very comfortable, very practical and I don't think you're going

05:17 to have any problems with it. You've got two USB-C's down there, so people in the back

05:21 can charge their devices. Electric window controls, not too much else. You've got a

05:26 seat back pocket there and we've got an armrest that comes down with cup holders and a through

05:32 load space, which is always nice to have. Plenty of headroom. I'm about 5'9" and a bit,

05:40 maybe 5'10" on a good day and plenty of headroom for me. Driver's seat's in my normal position

05:45 and there's acres of legroom there and a reasonable amount of space to put your feet as well.

05:50 Really, quite a nice place for your rear seat passengers. The boot space is really good

05:55 in this car, very competitive. It's not a flat floor, there is a big duck down, but

05:59 I like that because it means your shopping doesn't fall out as soon as you open the boot

06:03 on a slope. It's really nice and deep. There's also some under floor storage there where

06:10 spare wheels used to live back in the bygone era. Nice, big, easy space to get things in

06:16 and out. You've got controls there so you can easily drop down the rear seats from here.

06:22 Not anything particularly clever or special once again, but very, very easy to use. Nice

06:27 space. Once you get out on the open roads, you'll find this thing really quite a nice

06:34 drive. The DSG automatic gearbox for the most part pairs up really nicely with this little

06:41 1.5 litre engine and it gives you a smooth, consistent ride. You can find it a tiny bit

06:49 slow on the uptake at times though. For example, if you're sitting at a roundabout and you

06:53 need to sort of nip out a bit quickly or perhaps you're coming to a stop and then sort of take

07:00 off again, it can occasionally just take a second to decide what it's going to do. But

07:06 otherwise, I think the DSG automatic is one of the best ones out there for actual driving

07:12 feel. It doesn't feel sort of numb. It doesn't take away from the driving experience too

07:18 much as some automatics can. Despite its only having 110 PS of power on tap, the car can

07:26 get up and go when it needs to. 0-62 in 9 seconds which is obviously nothing spectacular

07:33 but I think it's more than reasonable on a car like this and you don't ever feel like

07:38 you're lacking for power even with four adults in the car. Now I drove a Kurok recently which

07:45 is obviously the sister to this car and I feel like the suspensions may be a tiny, tiny

07:50 bit firmer in this but by no means is it harsh and I think the real benefit from that is

07:58 that actually it corners really nicely. It's not boaty at all. The car feels planted at

08:04 all times and I might be being overly harsh to be honest. It may have been a slight difference

08:10 between the two cars, maybe different wheel size or something but this is perhaps just

08:15 a hair firmer than you would get in the Kurok and perhaps also you can say the same thing

08:22 for the Qashqai which is perhaps a tiny bit more cosseted on the old cheeks than this

08:28 is but don't let that sort of distract you from the fact that this is generally a very

08:35 comfortable car to get down the road in and I'd say it's a bit better in the corners than

08:39 the Qashqai. You might be listening to me babble on about this car thinking this is

08:45 all sweetness and light, there's nothing wrong with this car. Really that's the story of

08:50 it, there's nothing wrong with it. I couldn't put my finger on anything with this car really

08:55 and say that's a negative. When I do talk about things that perhaps are not quite as

09:02 good as something else I'm literally trying to find fault because the car doesn't present

09:06 you with any obvious faults whatsoever. It's a nice thing to drive, it's got plenty of

09:12 room for your family and your luggage which I would say most people buying this kind of

09:17 car are doing it because they've got a family and possibly some luggage and it's just nice

09:22 and easy. Everything about it is easy yet you don't have the compromise of it being

09:27 really boaty in the corners and feeling like it's going to take 15 minutes to get up to

09:34 60. It's a car without too many compromises however it's not very exciting. That's its

09:42 biggest fault is it's not very exciting but if you like your motoring to be functional

09:48 and reliable and solid then I think this car's got a lot going for it, it really has. As

09:56 an all round package if you could live with the perhaps slightly dull looks I think this

10:02 is a better car than the Nissan Qashqai where it does have a bit more stiff competition

10:07 is with the Kia Sportage because that's a great all round package as well and does have

10:13 sort of the added little bit of flair here and there that perhaps this one lacks. But

10:18 I think they're just a really really good car that I'm struggling to find anything negative

10:23 to say about. This will also be a great used buy and obviously there are plenty of these

10:29 on the road, plenty of them on the open market right now and I think if you're looking at

10:35 a used one perhaps that 1.5 turbo is the sweet spot yet again. You'll also find diesels out

10:42 there in the market but for many people that do mostly short runs I would say you should

10:47 probably avoid a modern diesel at all costs and look towards petrol only or petrol hybrid

10:54 cars moving forwards. However folks, the Ateca doesn't need to be all sensible because the

11:01 good folks over at Cupra will happily furnish you with a new Ateca with 300 brake horsepower

11:08 if that's something you desire. It's all a little bit livelier, a little bit more interesting

11:14 and the performance is absolutely breathtaking. You're looking at a Golf R engine in that

11:19 thing so yeah it is definitely a fly by the seat of your pants experience. I think Seat

11:26 is sometimes like the forgotten sibling of the VW Audi group and I think that's really

11:31 really unfair. You know over the years they tend to have had the last generation equipment

11:37 sometimes so like your infotainment system might not be the most up to date version.

11:43 The steering wheel might not be the most up to date version but when you compare that

11:47 to some of the things we've seen in recent VW Audi group cars particularly with the VW

11:52 badge on, that's a really really good thing. We don't have some of the annoyances that

11:59 have appeared in the interiors of those cars in recent years and this is all the better

12:05 for it. I know I mentioned it earlier but as an example I would take this steering wheel

12:10 over the steering wheel in any current Volkswagen car. It's not broke, we don't need it to be

12:18 fixed. So if you're in the market for a mid-size family SUV you should absolutely go and test

12:25 drive a Seat Ateca and if I were going to test drive a Seat Ateca I'd ask for this.

12:32 I'd ask for SE technology trim with the 1.5 turbo petrol and I don't mind the DSG at all.

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