I bought a 2001 seat leon 1.9tdi 90bhp in sept 2011 and sold it in dec 2011. Ill start with the good points, the engine, gearbox, turbo were all 100% the power from a 90BHP is very good and great on the motorway and was averaging 55mpg, the boot is very big which is good for family, and its a comfortable car. The bad points were I had to replace the control boxes in the driver and passenger because when I locked the car about 10 secs later it would unlock itself and let the 4 windows go down in rain or shine doors which cost €200 each, the main dealers have very bad service, the lights in the dash and clocks kept flickering which my mechanic told me is the alternator and is expensive to fix, and the seals around the doors were gone so any time it rained water got in through all doors apart from the boot and my friend had leon on too so its a common problem. So my advice would be check the floors for wet carpets, and make sure it has none of thses problems. I had a toyota corolla before this car and it never gave me any trouble so I went back to one.

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Decided to buy this as the equivalent diesel was £3000 more and not as nice to drive. I worked out that it would cost me £700 more per year in petrol so that was still 4 years driving. This was a good decision as the car is very underated and has smooth progressive power from tickover to 6000rpm. It is not going to worry an Impreza but still has enough oomph to overtake with confidence.

Really well equipped for it's age with half leather/alcantara seats, 6 disc autochanger, cruise control, electric seats, climate control and leather steering wheel. Car does 31-34 REAL mpg which is good for a 2.3 five cylinder engine.

To sum up it is a cut price Volkswagen which is better equipped and better looking in the mould of the Alfa 156.

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This car is brilliant it's quite nippy, and solid build quality and has everything you need.

Would definately buy another SEAT.

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My lovely seat alhambra i have had for 7 months is a lovely car to drive and very powerful it has survived haven been flooded and still drives 1000% so a allround good car

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