RE: Sports Styling Kit for SEAT Leon
RE: Sports Styling Kit for SEAT Leon
Thursday 13th March 2014

Sports Styling Kit for SEAT Leon

Spice up your SEAT with new dealer bodykit (record 'ring lap time still not included)



We're still waiting to hear from SEAT on this Performance Pack that enabled the Cupra 280 to score that first sub-eight 'ring lap for an FWD car. The pack you can't actually buy yet.

A bit of Cava-style fizz for your diesel Leon
A bit of Cava-style fizz for your diesel Leon
You can, however, make your Leon look capable of such feats thanks to a new official retrofit Sports Styling Kit. SEAT has previous here of course, the K1 kit offered on the previous Leon Cupra catering to those wanting a little more attitude from their SEAT but wanting to maintain the seal of official approval.

In the case of the new Leon it handily answers criticisms that the new car, slick as it is, has perhaps got a little too grown-up and Audified. There's nothing wrong with that but if you want a car that looks like an Audi you're probably best off buying ... an Audi. Leaving SEAT to do what it's always done and appeal to those who want something a little more vibrant and eye catching. If that's you you're able to pick and choose elements from this package as required, SEAT claiming all parts work in isolation as well as a complete set.

A Cup Racer kit for the Leon? Yes please!
A Cup Racer kit for the Leon? Yes please!
The front bumper is £1,500, the rear bumper £975, the roof spoiler £399, skirts £645, exhaust £480 and 19-inch wheels £999 with all prices including painting and fitting at an official dealer. As it stands you can apply it to any non-Cupra Leon you fancy, five-door or SC. As a way of spicing up a diesel FR 185 like the one pictured - whisper it - it kind of works.

Leaving us in the slightly odd position of kitted-up standard Leons actually looking rather more feisty than the full fat Cupra; here's hoping for a properly mad looking K1-style kit for that car perhaps inspired by that lovely looking Cup Racer shown alongside the road car at Geneva. In for a penny!

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renaultgeek

Original Poster:

473 posts

177 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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400 quid for a spoiler!!!

ALEXMASON

7 posts

158 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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I love that shade of blue, very nice indeed.

MrTappets

881 posts

220 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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Anyone else seeing a lot of Renault Clio in the rear aspect? Maybe it's just me...

is1

192 posts

177 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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The Cup Racer seems to have more tyre sidewall than the road car!
More tyre sidewall and silver wheels please.

Crow555

1,037 posts

223 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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All in, that's £4,998. Ouch.

Laser Sag

2,860 posts

272 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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Agree that it looks good especially like that blue but £5K to make no improvement to the way your non Cupra Leon drives !!!

lewisf182

2,242 posts

217 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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That does look lovely and aggressive while maintaining the OEM look, but jesus christ that's expensive. what does a diesel FR cost, around £20k maybe a little more? talking 20-25% of the purchase price on a frickin body kit?

KMB

263 posts

252 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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I'm not convinced this is entirely fair, but...

PH has been my home for a long time, informative articles have filled the need for geeky car information and stats. Chris Harris has become my bastion of decent car reporting, whereas the like of Top Gear etc have moved to frivolous entertainment that has, in my opinion, grown very stale.

I'm a bit worried with the onset of a more Max Power mentality here on PH, I know that over time our audience demographic will reduce in age, but are PH pandering to this a little too much? This article seems to fit within scope and it saddens me a little that the PH of old would have given an expensive make-over from Seat a much harder time.

Maybe I need to go and get lunch frown

ManOpener

12,467 posts

198 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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Like the rear end, not the front.
Why didn't that rear bumper and exhaust end up on the Cupra?

bakerstreet

5,042 posts

194 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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KMB said:
I'm not convinced this is entirely fair, but...

PH has been my home for a long time, informative articles have filled the need for geeky car information and stats. Chris Harris has become my bastion of decent car reporting, whereas the like of Top Gear etc have moved to frivolous entertainment that has, in my opinion, grown very stale.

I'm a bit worried with the onset of a more Max Power mentality here on PH, I know that over time our audience demographic will reduce in age, but are PH pandering to this a little too much? This article seems to fit within scope and it saddens me a little that the PH of old would have given an expensive make-over from Seat a much harder time.

Maybe I need to go and get lunch frown
The PH fraternity are a bit anti Max Power IMO. Just look at the roasting a 19 year old gets if he posts up a pic of his coarsa in readers rides. He might have added some decent wheels and a stereo, but that will be enough for him to get a flaming.

zeduffman

4,317 posts

180 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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Look forward to seeing this on all the white 14 plate 1.6 diesels that are out there atm.

daydotz

1,800 posts

190 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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Just what the Leon needed

ndj

222 posts

251 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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Zzzzzzz.... Zzzzzzz.... Zzzzzzz.....

GTEYE

2,476 posts

239 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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zeduffman said:
Look forward to seeing this on all the white 14 plate 1.6 diesels that are out there atm.
Maybe not at £5k...

It does look good, but perhaps too subtle to be worth the bother?


Edited by GTEYE on Thursday 13th March 17:02

iloveboost

1,531 posts

191 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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If it was my money I think I'd leave the body kit though it's tastefully done. I love that blue colour though.

KM666

1,757 posts

212 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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KMB said:
I'm not convinced this is entirely fair, but...

PH has been my home for a long time, informative articles have filled the need for geeky car information and stats. Chris Harris has become my bastion of decent car reporting, whereas the like of Top Gear etc have moved to frivolous entertainment that has, in my opinion, grown very stale.

I'm a bit worried with the onset of a more Max Power mentality here on PH, I know that over time our audience demographic will reduce in age, but are PH pandering to this a little too much? This article seems to fit within scope and it saddens me a little that the PH of old would have given an expensive make-over from Seat a much harder time.

Maybe I need to go and get lunch frown
As a max power proposition that bodykit is st, you can get mahoosive wheels fitted to anything now, so thats nothing special.

Perhaps if Seat offered it sat on Calibre Vintage wheels, cheap coilovers and ditched the kit for some smoothing it might appeal to the new age barry boys. As it is i'd imagine it'll show up on alot of lease cars. Like S-line.

JD

3,146 posts

257 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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Is this an article or an advert?

5 Seat Leon items in the last three weeks? surely literally no-one cares that much about a Seat?

Escort Si-130

3,449 posts

209 months

Friday 14th March 2014
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The spoiler probably costs £80, £20 for the paint, £300 for the "stealers" labour/fitting charges.

renaultgeek said:
400 quid for a spoiler!!!

Paul O

3,159 posts

212 months

Friday 14th March 2014
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Love the look of the new Leon's, nicely proportioned. Don't think it needs a kit to be honest. Makes it look fussy.

That race car looks cool though!! biggrin

Brompty

153 posts

173 months

Friday 14th March 2014
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JD said:
Is this an article or an advert?

5 Seat Leon items in the last three weeks? surely literally no-one cares that much about a Seat?
+1. The styling - with or without body kit - leaves me cold. Not interesting in any way and on the diesel a little pointless.