SEAT Ibiza 2020 in-depth review | carwow Reviews 

I'm very disappointed that the Car Wow stick of truth wasn't used for the exhausts.

Funny how you have a blue car at first and then a red car when driving. Reminds me of Top Gear's NZ race with James at the end saying "It was blue wasn't it? I would have sworn it was blue!"

5:50 how many times you repeated that scene?

6:22 doesn’t look so silly now, does it Matt?

"it feels and sounds cheap!" ... well, its a cheap car, i think thats the point :)

Had a 115 FR for a year now, great car to drive and surprisingly quick with superb handling, in my opinion great VFM. What surprises everybody is the amount of space in the car.

Mat predicted the future at 6:17

I mean what do you expect from a car that cost 9000£ thanks God that there is a new car with these options and this price and it's not Chinese!! I personally prefer this to the new polo at least it looks more aggressively than the polo. And cheaper... Btw this car is one of Europe's best selling car!

Had my Ibiza for 3 years due another in March 21 and it’s been amazing,great to drive and on a motorway run I can get 59mpg.It’s so much better than the fiesta and the dull polo.

What? Manual windows? :D My 22 years old vauxhall frontera have electric windows in the back.

under 10k? for this? Here in Norway u cant even get the damn toyota aygo for under 15k.... U UK people r lucky AF with such low car prices...

Matt be thinking he's reviewing a Bentley here or what?? It's SUPPOSED to be cheap you plebian!

In the 4 years since this video was made, the price has rocketed up 35%. Good to see manufactures bleeding their customers dry.

Have a nice Christmas Mat, car wow and everyone else celebrating🎄🎉🎁😊

What if buy dbrand skin and apply to the interior hard plastic surfaces? 🤔

Disclaimer* No dogs were offended in the making of this video.

نتا ماشفتش ايبيزا لي يركبوها عدنا فالبلاد موتور 1.6 mpi و يببعوها ب290 مليون

At this price you're expecting a Rolls Royce?

It’s so weird the way Mat says “IbiZa” 😂🤣

Why has it become a thing that we now consider any softtouch materials a luxury feature? Even £6k new hatchbacks from the 80-90s period would have full softtouch or fabric doors linings, dashboard, glove compartment lid. Now we're paying twice as much for cars with brittle, rattly horrible plastic.

Here in Portugal the FR comes with eletric rear Windows and dual zone climate control as standart the arm rest is an optional and you can get fake lether with red stiching on the dash to feel more expensive.

Matt... We need you to review the Tesla Model 3

This car looks fine in FR but the other specs look so ridiculously boring, I thought Seat was supposed to be the sporty VAG brand but the Polo and even the Fabia are more interesting looking. And in their cars in general Seat is fast becoming the budget brand when VAG is moving Škoda upmarket.

I do not like any Seat at all. It is just too much hard plastic in my opinion.

That door clunk gave me chills, first time ive heard that from a vehicle within the VW group.

Love your reviews Matt...I'm in Australia and we don't get all your models but still watch anyway...keep them coming cheers

Mat the type of guy to review a blue car and drive a red one.

This is a freaking car review video and it has no footage showing the back of the car from a distance. Unbelievable! I want my view back!

Great looking, reliable and well priced

Ordered the car this month, can't wait for it to arrive ❤❤❤

I’ve bought a Seat Ibiza Fr 1.0 115hp with alcantara seats, dual zone climate controle, arm rest, rear electric windows, full led, 18 inch wheels, etc. Allmost full optoon for just 19k euros 🤷🏼‍♂️

I'm guessing the fatigue recognition scene was filmed a few times judging by the redness of Matt's chops

Love your reviews of entry level cars up to Supercars! Keep up the great work Matt!

I bought this car 5 weeks ago, and it came with dual climate control and electric rear windows as standard and I didn't buy the top spec - it's only the style version. And then I bought a digital cockpit as extra, which I absolutely love!

I have bought the 2018 seat ibiza fr 1,5 tsi in march and i have done 11000 km until now.In this period of time i have zero issues no rattles,no oil consumption(about 200ml in 10k km oil change with very careful usage though),good fuel economy(for 150hp)about 6 lt/100km in highway 7,5lt/100km city,the steering feels a bit disconnected in tight roads but if you learn car's limits it has good corner capabilities,in greece at least electric power windows are standard for the FR trim in the back and in my opinion is good value for money for what it is with a few drawbacks

Quite surprising. I have a 3 year old Ibiza and imo it looks nicer inside. Still seems nice but feel like it’s lost a lot of the sporty appeal of older models, and seems a bit cheaper made..

So now the seat Ibiza looks almost like a Leon! wtf companies are taking this direction! Volkswagen and Skoda are doing the same too with their cars! jetta and passat almost identical! octavia and Superb! golf and polo! the list goes on and on!! u dont feel premium any more when u get one of those compared to the others!

Right this second, I’m in Lanzarote watching this video and these are everywhere making life tricky, when you have just returned to it after a shopping trip, to work out which white Ibiza is yours. Well, I must say, these cars are good, quiet, nippy and roomy. My one is the one up from basic, with the 1 litre turbo petrol and it’s all the car you need, really. Mega economical family hatch, it’s done 40k kilometres and is squeak free.....nice.

17 plate, yet we're coming up to the end of 2018?

17 plate but the review is titled as 2020 🤔

im using the black and white display and i'd say it is pretty damn good. i got it for real cheap as a second hand but with very low miles- like 200 or so. appereantly the owner didnt like the car and returned it to get a second hand Leon. Also, this damned car does not have an armrest. DAMMIT SEAT. Also, engines that have more than 100hp gets upgraded from rear drum brakes to rear disc brakes.

Ibiza in the glove box 😉

I own the 1.5L FR and you didn’t mention my favourite thing about an add on for this car and that’s the LED daytime running lights! I highly recommended if your buying this car to get this add on!

I’ve got an FR Sport and it has so much more quality than this, this one can not be the one under the top spec. I have leather seats 18 diamond alloys and soft touch materials and suede everywhere!

Wow. So I have a 63 plate Seat Leon TSI which has FAR more features than this brand new 2018/19 Ibiza. Disappointingly interesting! Its almost 2019... LED headlights and electric windows SHOULD BE AS STANDARD in all cars and models!

5:55 look at his cheek, it is already red, so it took at least a couple of slapping before final shoot :D

Why didn't you review the FR sport? Alcantara interior, digital dash, could go on...

I hate it when modern cars that have: **Fake** exhausts, intakes, air outtakes (rear intake-like things), sound, diffusers

If you want better materials get a Polo. If you want good materials get an A1. Simple

Brits never learn, Ibiza is Ibiza, what is Ibitha???? its disrespectful

i don't undestand why, but the basic Ibiza in Spain has electric rear windows as standard and climate control with screen too. :S

I got me This ibiza. But instead of that fingerprint black panel its light grey and matt Also got me some 19 inch brescia rims on it And i do have the armrest thank god🤣🤣. Its the late 2017 business intense ibiza. Also got lighting at the feet My first decent modern car. Very happy with it My first ever car was a ibiza 2001 Then a ibiza 2002. And now to a 2017. What a diffrence

The way you Brits pronounce this car's name is just pathetic xD

for example in Turkey, All of the SEAT Ibıza range are coming with rear electrical windows. because despite of this car smallness we are using as a family car. coz it quaite expensive here. and it is very famous car too. but the reason i am backing away from this car becasue of its stupid DSG automatic gear box. it just anoying...

01:00 not really. After a year with my 1,0 ecotsi 95 bg style ibiza. It is good to drive in town. You dont dance between gears because of long gear ratios. But that makes car slow accelaration. Above 2k rpm car is responsible but below that it is dead. And one more thing about cheap plastics. I only touch 8' screen so thats not a big problem

No central armwrest in front? What the hell!?

Biggest concern is not the plastic it's that it uses VW engines ..

6.25 was okay when this was released.....2020 comes along and the whole world has to do it 🙃😔🤔

I've had an Ibiza 1.0 75hp for three years now. Comfortable, spacious for its class, stylish looks and interior, great fuel economy, brilliant climate control, responsive steering. Downsides: 1 obviously lack of power from that small engine. 2 breaking not great due to rear drums instead of discs. 3 The S&S system stoped working after two years - now works very rarely. Done me a favour cause it's bloody annoying but nevertheless not ideal.

No excuse for the lack of electrical rear windows, my 2005 Kia Picanto has them 🤣

that's not the 2019 FR interior, that's the 2018 interior.

I think it's better than polo since it has 110 hp engine where polo has 95 with the same engine.

6:20 Matt predicted a pandemic!

Skoda Fabia vs Seat Ibiza vs VW polo

De-spa-cito I don't know the lyrics so I say Dorito I don't eat my breakfast so I bought a Burrito I just wanna visit my Uncle Paquito De-spa-cito...

Im 6”2 and i have have plenty og space in the back

Pretty disappointing review. It looks like it's made for the Ibiza to look bad, when most of the issues he mention can be solved paying cheap extras like other cars do. Ibiza is actually one of the best, if not the best hachback of B segment. Only hard plastics inside are to be critisized, on the rest of aspects it may be class leader.

Doesn't look much more sportier than the polo at all really🤔

This is copy of a polo

Looks cheap, feels cheap and 17k for this?? Crap!!!

Time to bring down some of his comments. First of all, Suspension with 17inch in FR trim is bound to be less forgiving than the style version with the 15 inch rims and 185 tyre. The polo is slightly softer but not by much. It means that it too, will not be great with 17inch rims. Both have two stage extra dampers, but what they do (normal to harder for FR and normal to softer for excellence trims and polo) is different. The line in the dash? If it bothers you you should be bothered in the audi A3 as well (which he dubs as the best interior in the class above for premium hatchbacks etc). Won't that line gather dust etc there? No mention that the door panels in the ibiza and the polo are cut cheaply where the window meets the frame behind the light for the door lock. Ok...that is more budget than anything soft touch in the dash but ok. And no mention that the door panel of the ibiza in FR is actually a better deal than the polo: Better finish (yes), cloth in a very large portion (the polo is all hard plastic: Where your elbow rests there is some plastic which is like a soft well...skin, not so good actually. Same with the seat...). There is no wind mirror noise in the motorway in the seat or the polo. I've driven it on more than 140km/h in the motorway, it's actually less noisy than some bigger cars. It's other noise sources (road and engine) are well suppressed, so much so that it tracks consistently at about 68-70 db at 140km/h in various tests on motor press and with my db meter in the level of the right ear and A weighting and calibrated). How does the polo fare? Less noisy for ...0,5 db usually. And you can't really tell. You can tell that if the ibiza has wider tyres you will hear them more in rougher surfaces. Else, it's golf or less as far as noise goes, actually almost mercedes levels in some regards. Not bad VAG, but don't try to sell the polo as something better soundproofed. If you open both their door panels you will see no sound proofing. You only get that in the passat and above. Same with the golf mk VI and VII so... Still those cars are so well designed that they don't need to block noise from there so...!

in india we don,t get this features and quality in mid range ....Manufactures in india selling mid range feature cars with high end prices..

The seat leon interior looks premium compared to that Ibiza, the leon dashboard has soft touch material and I don't like that black gloss plastic it scratches easily. You keep bleating on about hard plastic I have sat in two BMW's and everywhere I touched it was hard plastic, obviously not all BMW's are like this. I cannot believe in this day and age that a car company like seat have used windy down rear windows in the Ibiza FR trim, my 2013 leon SE technology trim has electric window's, arm rest and the doors sound nicer when you shut them, so you can't compare both cars.

No reason to buy a Polo or an A1. Best in class imo, unless you need a hybrid.

Haha, looks like the "fatigue recognition" demonstration needed at least two takes.

I've drive the new IBIZA (not the FR), Ive made a comparison between my car Seat IBIZA sc 2010 , the handling in my car is "OK" , But in the new car the handling, It's so bad! the ESP need to works all the time, I will not forget the firs corner- under steering!! You didn't mentioned it... (My cars For the weekends Peugeot 306 S16 1995 and Peugeot 106 XSI 1994)

It all seems so cheap and basic for such a high price. There's much better cars at this price, with many better features (including electric rear windows 😀) VW cutting costs for themselves but not the customer, maybe why you don't see many!

Mat copying jeremy clarkson begining with a blue car and ending with red?

Review the Cupra R. 😡

Window winders on a FR spec car in 2019. "Are you kidding me "

Picked up my FR Business Intense last friday! Love it, except the adaptive cruise control in eco or normal mode. If you´re driving in fifth gear, it doens´t pick up speed whatsoever when the car in front moves over.

5:49 The redness on your left cheek proves you might have been repeating this slap sequence for a few times before getting the best one. Haha! You really are a masochist! :)))))))

The old car looked so great and this one is just average. Boring boxy styling just like the new A1 and Polo.

Please do the new Audi Q3!

Hello Carwow, i hope you don't mind me asking why a second review of the same car? and why test drive a different version than the one in the beginning of the video? Otherwise good job Matt as always i'm a fan of your work :)

Where is the car wow stick of truth? And I like it that ibiza is in Spain. And u put despacito:)

I nearly got a Seat Arona that's based on this car, So glad Seat couldn't deliver it ( ran out of parts) Customer service was none existent from dealer and #Seat ,

The biggest problem for Canada 🇨🇦 is not the “boot”, our Queen ‘Lisbeth must place the driver on the left for Meghan... and her dad.

You were in Ibiza but no banging tunes were played :|

Did he test something in this video?? I only saw a floating idiot and some sceneries.

Mat you should review the FR SPORT! Looks a much nicer car

In all these reviews don't forget that there are differents equipment levels and specs in each different country

Who would buy this new when the same money gets you e.g. a 3 year old bmw 4-series

Once again Mat, how is 44mpg from this car "really good" if ~48mpg from the Toyota Yaris is not so very good. And again, this SEAT has a smaller engine so should be better in this area, but is not; so why is it "really good"?

6:15 Seat knew what would come next

That rear doors feeling cheap and flimsy is not as bad as the Toyota Yaris but they never said it in the last video. This is a very good car.

Wheres the continuity Matt! Different clothes different car, slacker.

Lol my ‘02 Ibiza even has electric windows in the back.. kinda embarissing

Shame they’ve decided to dilute the FR brand in my opinion

Cheap for Cheap... O think the Fabia or the Rio have better arguments