The SEAT Ronda is a 5-door hatchback from SEAT, built from 1982 to 1986, in the age of turbocharging and the first electronic engine management. Under the bonnet: gasoline engine. Tom Tjaarda at Rayton Fissore drew it.
The story
The SEAT Ronda (codenamed 022A) is a small family car produced by the Spanish automaker SEAT from 1982 to 1986, and styled by Tom Tjaarda at Rayton Fissore in collaboration with the Technical Centre in Martorell. The Ronda was the first SEAT model named after a Spanish city. 177,869 Rondas were built in total.
What is underneath
Power comes from gasoline engine. It weighs 970 kg. The wheelbase is 2448 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the SEAT Ritmo; its successor was the SEAT Leon; assembly was at Barcelona (Zona Franca), Spain. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Toyota Camry, the Porsche 944, the Nissan Micra — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the SEAT catalogue sit the SEAT 124 and the SEAT 133.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the SEAT Ronda has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.