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SEAT Bocanegra concept car

The SEAT Bocanegra is a three-door
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, built by the
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and designed by former
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who at the moment had been assigned SEAT's design director. It was presented at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show, sporting a more aggressive image as a showcase for the fifth-generation
SEAT Ibiza The SEAT Ibiza is a supermini car that has been manufactured by Spanish car manufacturer SEAT since 1984. It is SEAT's best-selling car. The Ibiza is named after the Spanish island of Ibiza and was the second SEAT model to be named after a Span ...
, which was introduced in May 2008 at the Madrid Motor Show. The name Bocanegra - standing for "Black Mouth" in Spanish - derives from the whole front bumper made out of black-painted plastic with the headlights encased in clear perspex, tracing back to a previous SEAT model from the 1970s, the 1200 Sport which at the time had been nicknamed ''Bocanegra'' because of its black plastic front end. It has a 1.4-liter TSI engine giving , and a newly presented seven-speed direct shift gearbox.


SEAT Bocanegra production model

The Bocanegra concept car's front end was carried to the fourth generation of the
SEAT Ibiza The SEAT Ibiza is a supermini car that has been manufactured by Spanish car manufacturer SEAT since 1984. It is SEAT's best-selling car. The Ibiza is named after the Spanish island of Ibiza and was the second SEAT model to be named after a Span ...
as a special edition featuring the Bocanegra name, meant to be carried over in a limited series of 1,000 cars per year production. A Boconegra version of the Ibiza ST estate was shown as a concept at Wörthersee 2010.


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