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Seat Tarraco 2022.

The lagging Seat Tarraco crossover from its sister Tiguan and Kodiaq will be updated in 2022.

The Spanish brand’s three-row parkettes will undergo modest changes inside and out. The engine range, probably, will remain the same.

The crossover Tarraco with the length of 4735 mm in the Seat lineup appeared in 2018, it is the closest relative of Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace and Skoda Kodiaq models, and it is not produced in Spain, but in Germany.

In 2021, the Seat model is still in the «plus», despite the covid and the crisis with the supply of microchips.

And yet Tarraco lags behind its brothers: according to statistics from JATO Dynamics, from January to November this SUV has sold 20,178 copies in Europe (+6%), whereas the «Old World» VW dealers have sold 26,046 Tiguan stretched (exactly Allspace, -1%), the result Kodiaq — 52,830 units (-16%).

«German» and «Czech» have already been updated, and the restyled Tarraco, should debut next year.

Spies have not caught the crossover yet, but cardinal transformation is not expected: the Spaniards believe that the models will only tweak the exterior design.

That is, Seat Tarraco, probably, will receive retouched bumpers, different grille and optics. Actually, Skoda and Volkswagen brands did the same with their SUVs.

In the cabin is likely to install a more modern multimedia system, plus may replace the trim materials.

Technology, according to preliminary data, will be the same, except that the engines will be brought up to the new econo-meters.

The range of pre-reform Seat Tarraco now includes petrol «turbo four» 1.5 TSI (150 hp) and 2.0 TSI (190 or 245 hp), and also turbo diesel 2.0 TDI (150 or 200 hp).

Drive is front or all-wheel drive. In addition, the Parkette has a rechargeable hybrid version (gray car in the brand photo) with an installation based on the gasoline 1.4 TSI, such Tarraco comes only with front-wheel drive, the total output — 245 hp.

In Germany, in its production homeland, prestyling crossover Seat costs from 33,020 euros (about 2,739,000 rubles at current exchange rates), the price of updated Skoda Kodiaq there also begins with a mark of 30,720 euros (2 548,000 rubles), and for VW Tiguan Allspace ask at least 36,900 euros (3 060,000 rubles).

In Russia, the Seat brand is not officially represented. The brand tried to gain a foothold in our country several times (it first appeared in the RF back in the 90s of the last century), but the demand for its cars was always low due to the lack of local production.

Seat finally left the Russian market in 2014, and there are no plans for its return.