SEAT Ateca X-Perience – an Ateca for going off-road, say SEAT

The SEAT Ateca X-Perience will be revealed at the Paris Motor Show this month, demonstrating what an off-road Ateca SUV could offer. It will make production.

The SEAT Ateca is SEAT’s big hope for a profitable future, and from what we’ve seen it’s probably the best hope SEAT has had in years to turn a profit.

But delivering the Ateca to the market is one thing, developing it out in to a profitable range to suit a wider demographic is quite another.

So SEAT seems to have decided that, having delivered an Urban SUV, they should change that in to a proper countryside, off-road capable SUV. Step forward the SEAT Ateca X-Perience.

Dubbed a concept, it’s clear the X-Perience take on the Ateca will make production, as it’s a relatively cheap way for SEAT to make an Ateca appeal to a different demographic and grow sales.

Essentially an Ateca X-cellence with added butch, the X-Perience comes with SEAT’s 190bhp 2.0 litre TDI which gives a decent 295lb/ft of torque and drives it through a Haldex clutch and four wheel drive system to offer potentially decent off-road chops.

The X-Cellence also gets a set of 18″ alloys with high profile rubber for better traction, plastic cladding round the wheel arches, more ambitious bumpers, scratch resistant paint, chrome roof rails, sump guard and light protectors.

Inside SEAT has gone rugged too, with suede seats (not exactly the most sensible option for the countryside) rubber floor mats, ‘XP’ logos, coffee and green colours with orange highlights (well, it is a concept) and aluminium kickplates.

SEAT Design director, Alejandro Mesonero-Romanos, said:

…we’ve chosen a typical 4×4 design style, starting with the wheel diameter and including high-profile tyres, going for a 4×4 look with the front bumpers, sump guard and fog light protectors.

The colour has ended up being very important too. We’ve chosen olive green matt, a natural colour that’s a little camouflaged, underlined with orange tones in the details that give it a more technical look.

The SEAT Ateca X-Cellence will be on show at the Paris Motor Show later this month, and we’d be astonished if it doesn’t shortly after turn in to a new Ateca model.