Seat building a (new) GT car.

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Seat is constructing a true car of GT, that will be the star of the next "Salón de Barcelona". Its ambition: the Fia-gt Championship and the 24 hours of Le Mans. This one car little has to do with Toledo GT seen in the Spanish Championship of Gt´s. Under the technical manual of the engineer Juan Orús, Seat Sport it has constructed a GT with much more serious aspirations: Le Mans and Fia-GT. Tubular chassis has been left from the chassis of Toledo GT seen here in Spain, being this one properly redesigned. The French company FAM, that works with Snobeck, has made a new multitubular chassis following the parameters of Seat, and basically it has extended the length and reduced the height to adapt to new bodywork.
On guard central Seat will instal V6 twinturbo, 3L. and 500hp of Toledo GT. More ahead in the time Seat Sport could to choose 3.5 L. engine.............or even Audi V8 twin-turbo engine of Audi R8. One reason more to find customers for the car.

The battle of the new model has been extended more than 2,650 mm, which, together with to both meters of width and a height nonsuperior to 1,200 mm gives ideal measures him. The length near the six meters (with an important back projection that it admits a voluminous inferior aerodynamic extractor) it will attribute a aerodynamics to him equivalent to the one of the Saleen S7R.
The version that will appear in Barcelona will be one more a more moderate version, will equip the V6 twin-turbo engine and agreed wheels to the regulation of the Spanish Championship, but small changes in the suspension will allow him to install the enormous wheels of 18x14´´ and their corresponding brakes for when it competes abroad.
Bodywork, totally original, has taken its masterful lines of the Salsa, although the new proportions have deformed their original aspect. The nose will carry radiadore main, whose hot air will be extracted partly by the flanks and partly through the front hood. Intercooler they will go located, like in Toledo GT, in both flanks, receiving fresh air of the superior part of the pontoons.
The new Seat GT will have his debut in the last race of Spanish championship in Barcelona (11th November). If all is OK then Seat could think to run international races in 2004.

I have a drawing of the car in "Autopista" magazine but the pic is very big and it´s in two pages.

Sorry for possible mistakes in "technical" words.

Source: Autopista.