SEAT Altea

Among the 100 SEAT entries in the MotorJury library, the SEAT Altea holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2004. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the SEAT Altea properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Ford Ford Mustang, the Hyundai Hyundai Tucson, the Suzuki Motor Corporation Suzuki Swift — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the SEAT Altea reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engines: / 1.2 L I4 TSI / 1.4 L I4 / 1.4 L I4 TSI / 1.6 L I4 / 1.8 L I4 TSI / 2.0 L I4 FSI / 2.0 L I4 TSI / GAS/LPG engines: / 1.6 L ; kerb weight is recorded at related = Audi A3 Mk2 / Audi TT Mk2 / SEAT León Mk2 / SEAT Toledo Mk3 / Volkswagen Golf Mk5 / Volkswagen Golf Mk6 / Volkswagen Golf Plus / Volkswagen Touran / Škoda Octavia Mk2 / S; drive goes through 5-speed manual / 6-speed manual / 6-speed tiptronic automatic / 6-speed Direct-Shift Gearbox / 7-speed Direct-Shift Gearbox; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the SEAT story

Within SEAT's own catalogue the SEAT Altea sits alongside the SEAT 124, the SEAT 133, the SEAT 1200 Sport, the SEAT 124 FL. It was succeeded by the SEAT Ateca. Design is credited to Walter de Silva. Assembly is recorded at Spain: Martorell, Catalonia / Ukraine: Solomonovo (Eurocar).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the SEAT Altea was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.