The sticker price is steep, considering it's pretty dear next to a Golf R estate and only £500.of that is ABT upgrade. Even so, it won't just be the sticker price that makes it a dear buy, it's the higher depreciation suffered with the SEAT badge that'll really sting.
Not always in practice.
I suffered lower depreciation in pure £££ on a few SEATs I owned many years ago than any comparative VW I’ve had.
Depends on demand for the model. That particular ST model will drop like a stone until it reaches a point.
Hopefully the Abt unit will filter in to other models which is more what we are looking at.
Is that because the Seats were comparatively cheap and a high % loss of a relatively low purchase price (like on an Ibiza) is still low on a £ basis?
For Leon vs Golf, every time I looked, Leon never made sense financially because the Cupra had the depreciation curve of a Ford Focus. The interior plastics in places you'd notice always looked and felt cheap. Doesn't help that my local Seat dealerships are arses too (Pattinson Seat wanted me to put a deposit down on a Cupra before they'd entertain a test drive about 10 years ago).
Definitely not the case for cheap depreciation here with that very expensive ST.
Would welcome the rollout of official power upgrades though. At £500, it's around the price of an externally sourced remap - no extra money to cover increased chance of warranty issues. That says to me that VAG are confident the engine can handle the extra output with ease.
Doubt they'd do this for manual boxes though, with their chocolate clutches.