Manufacturer SEAT, S.A. Assembly Martorell, Spain Class Compact SUV (J) | Production 2007 (Concept car) Designer Luc Donckerwolke Body style 3-door CUV | |
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The SEAT Tribu is a compact SUV, that is built by the Spanish automaker SEAT, S.A..
Concept car
The first time when the Tribu name was used by SEAT was at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show for a concept car which featured 3 doors and 4 bucket seats. The concept SUV was the first project designed entirely by Luc Donckerwolke, the former Lamborghini designer who since 2005 is appointed SEAT's Design Director.
In August 2008, official SEAT designs of a production model were submitted to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and subsequently leaked. The concept car had suffered radical changes, featuring five doors and a more conventional boot opening.
Several car magazines were quick to turn these official gray scale pictures into computer generated images that show the Tribu in near final form, as a rebadged version of the Volkswagen Tiguan. The car did not subsequently reach production, due to rough economic conditions at the time.
In March 2014, Auto Express reported that SEAT were working on a family of CUVs, with an estimated release date of 2016. The vehicles will be based on the SEAT León, and are inspired by the Nissan Qashqai, and will rival it.