SEAT Arosa

SEAT Arosa
Manufacturer	SEAT
Parent company	Volkswagen Group
Production	1997–2005
Class	city car
Body style(s)	3-door hatchback
Platform	A00
Wheelbase	2323 mm (Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{" in)
Length	3551 mm (Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{" in)
Width	1639 mm (Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{" in)
Height	1460 mm (Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{" in)
Related	VW Lupo

The SEAT Arosa is a city car from the Spanish SEAT, a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, built between 1997 and 2005. Named after the municipality of Vilagarcía de Arousa in Galicia (Spain), it was only available as a three-door, four-seater hatchback. The Arosa was to a large extent identical to Volkswagen's own city car, the Volkswagen Lupo, and both cars were based on the Volkswagen A00 platform, a shortened version of the A03 platform used by the larger Volkswagen Polo and SEAT Ibiza. The Arosa was initially manufactured at a Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, and only in May 1998 was the production moved to SEAT facilities in Martorell in Spain. The model later received a facelift in 2001. The Arosa replaced the SEAT Marbella in the Spanish brand's lineup, but was not itself replaced by any SEAT model when production ceased in 2005.

Powertrain

The Arosa was available with the following units:^[1] Petrol

• 1.0 L (999 ccm) I4, 8v OHC, 37 kW (50 PS), 86 N·m (63.4 ft·lbf)
• 1.4 L (1390 ccm) I4, 8v OHC, 44 kW (60 PS), 116 N·m (85.6 ft·lbf)
• 1.4 L (1390 ccm) I4, 16v DOHC, 74 kW (100 PS), 128 N·m (94.4 ft·lbf)

Diesel

• 1.7 L (1716 ccm) SDI I4, 8v OHC, 44 kW (60 PS), 115 N·m (84.8 ft·lbf)
• 1.4 L (1422 ccm) TDI I4, 8v OHC, 55 kW (75 PS), 195 N·m (143.8 ft·lbf)

All engines came with a 5-speed manual transmission, with a 4-speed automatic optional on the 1.4 (44 kW).

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References

External links

• Der Spiegel article on the SEAT Arosa 3L (German)