Seat's supermini gets news engines, a smarter cabin, more tech and some minor chassis tweaks. Styling remains unchanged, though. For those of you scrutinising the above photos and concluding we must've accidently uploaded the wrong ones, I can assure you this isn't the case. The car you’re looking at is most definitely the new Seat Ibiza. It just doesn't look any different from the old one. Well, aside from some brighter LED bulbs in the tail lights and some equally luminescent DRLs, that is.There are a couple of very good reasons for this. Firstly, an entirely new Ibiza – new platform, new interior, the works – is due in just two years, so it would make little financial sense for Seat to invest heavily in designing and pressing new body panels. Secondly, and perhaps more pertinently, the Ibiza has always been among the most striking superminis to look at. And if it ain’t broke…Plenty is new about the 2015 Ibiza, though. Inside, you'll find a plusher, soft-touch face on the dashboard where previously there was a hard and unappealing grey slab of plastic. And the clunky old infotainment systems have been replaced with brand new, thoroughly modern and user-friendly touchscreens. More on that later.The engine line-up is all but entirely fresh, too. The VW Group’s 1.0-litre triple petrol joins the range in naturally aspirated 74bhp form and, as tested here, 94bhp turbo guise. There are also several new 1.4 diesels, the cleanest of which emits just 88g/km of CO2.
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