Seat building a (new) GT car.

[E46]

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.

[rdjones]

Oh no not another sportscar from the VW stable

[pirenzo]

What are they gonna call this one, Ibiza GTR?

[E46]

Surely .

[FIRE]

How does that Toledo GT look like? Any pictures?

[E46]

Here you have a pic of Toledo GT: http://www.gtsport.es/GT%202002/Foto...a/seatdo_g.jpg

[kdr]

touring car alert touring car alert!

[pirenzo]

That's a GT?

[E46]

This last one is Toledo GT, this car is running in Spain but is derived of French Silhouette Toledo. It isn´t a authentic GT car.
We will see new GT (and this yes is a autenthic GT) in "Salón de Barcelona del Automóvil", April 26th.

[andy_b]

Yes this appeared at the end of last year, complete with a press release from SEAT Sport.

The speil I wrote on seatcupra.net which was edited from the Spanish official release was:-

Darro Motor Racing entered a SEAT Toledo GT in the last race of the Spanish GT championship a couple of weeks ago.The car, developed by SEAT Sport is based on the race winning SEAT Toledo Silhouette, seen in the French Touring car championship. The race car is equipped with a motor V6 Biturbo that renders a power superior to 470cv


DMR and SEAT Sport ran test sessions at Jarama and Calafat race circuits with the assistance of Radermecker prior to its race debut. The driver pairing of Miguel Angel and Balba González Way, champions of Spain GT in 2000 also tested. Miguel Angel, commented: "the balance of the first test with the SEAT Toledo GT is very positive. By the experience which I have in GT's, the car has a very high potential and, built very well, it will give very good results."

ends

Not sure if the GT series regs changed in Spain,as there was talk about the car not being legal for 2003,

anyway, here is a large ish jpeg with the engine cover off

http://www.seatcupra.net/images/seat...oledogt002.jpg

How recent is that article E46? Is it this year

[weeks]

Man, VAG is really big into Le Mans all of a sudden. Whose next, Skoda?

[Nordic]

This is great news, as a SEAT driver can I hope for free tickets in the SEAT grandstand.

News of a another true GT is reaching my ears, it appears a mini could be racing in the Brit GT's later this year, come back BMW all is forgiven.
Come on guys are there not any SPORTS cars that you could chose.

[KA]

Originally posted by E46
Here you have a pic of Toledo GT: http://www.gtsport.es/GT%202002/Foto...a/seatdo_g.jpg

Looking at the photo, the rear bodywork seems to be removeable- is that mid-engined?

[KA]

Originally posted by andy_b
anyway, here is a large ish jpeg with the engine cover off

http://www.seatcupra.net/images/seat...oledogt002.jpg

So it is- that'll teach me to ask questions before I've read the rest of the thread......

It's an interesting piece of kit, although externally it does look much more like a tourer than a GT- then again, BMW got away with the M3 for ages....

[KA]

Originally posted by weeks
Man, VAG is really big into Le Mans all of a sudden. Whose next, Skoda?

They never ran at Le Mans, but Skoda do have their little bit of sportscar racing history as well-they built a couple of very pretty small-capacity (1200cc?) sports-racers in the 50's- one of them is now in the UK, although I'm not sure it's ever appeared in historic racing.

[pirenzo]

looks mid engined to me. You can see the cylinder heads etc

[Javi]

yes it´s a mid engined car. Debuted last year at spanish GT´s championship with good results

[kmchow]

The Toledo looks like a XL version of the VW Bora/Jetta?

[E46]

If Seat builds the car will be without doubts a good car. Toledo Gt in his first race and with only a previous test (and with 420hp only) was last November in Ferrari 360´s times:

1 BMS SCUDERIA ITALIA Jean-D. DELETRAZ Frederic DOR FERRARI 550 MARANELLO GTA 1º 1'44.208
2 BMS SCUDERIA ITALIA Enzo CALDERARI Lilian BRYNER FERRARI 550 MARANELLO GTA 2º 1'45.224
3 MEYCOM SPORT Tomas SALDAÑA Ni AMORIN MARCOS LM 600 GTA 3º 1'45.395
4 GRAHAM NASH MOTORSPORT Pedro CHAVES Miguel RAMOS SALEEN FORD S7R GTA 4º 1'46.309
5 DDO Dominique DUPUY J-Marc THEVENOT VIPER GTS-R GTA 5º 1'46.332
6 Jesus DIEZ VILLARROEL Jesus DIEZ VILLARROEL Victor FERNANDEZ VIPER GTS-R GTA 6º 1'47.881
7 CLUB PORSCHE ESPAÑA Juan Jose ABIA DE LA TORRE Javier ARIAS PORSCHE 996 TURBO GTA 7º 1'48.908
8 AUTO PALACE Guillaume GOMEZ Bruno CORRADI FERRARI 360 MODENA G GTA 8º 1'48.997
9 TEAM AFFINIS Manuel MELLO BREYNER Pedro MELLO BREYNER PORSCHE 911 GT2 GTA 9º 1'49.006
10 Antonio SANTES Nicolas DALLI Hans FERTEL PORSCHE 911 GT2 GTA 10º 1'49.193
11 JMB COMPETITION Andrea GARBAGNATI Andrea BERTOLINI FERRARI 360 MODENA G GTA 11º 1'49.303
12 DARRO MOTOR RACING Miguel A. DE CASTRO Balba CAMINO SEAT TOLEDO GT GTA 12º 1'49.307

The new Seat GT will be better still.

[andy_b]

the road version has the same basic floorpan and some parts of the Bora/Jetta. www.seat.com is the manufactures' website where you can see what the Toledo normally looks like.

E46, you have a PM

[KA]

According to dailysportscar, we might well be seeing at least a one-off appearance from SEAT in British GTs later in the year-

http://www.dailysportscar.net/news/news0360.htm

E46- is the car in DSC's picture anything to do with the new SEAT GT you were describing in your first post? If so, I can't wait to see this one on the track -very nice....

[E46]

Yes, that is the Seat GT.