Seat hasn’t launched its last automotive, Autocar understands, with the Spanish model contemplating an entry-level electrical metropolis automotive twinned with the upcoming Volkswagen ID 1.

The revelation comes after Seat chairman Thomas Schäfer informed Autocar final 12 months that “the way forward for Seat is Cupra”, strongly suggesting that Seat would pivot to a mobility options model whereas Cupra dealt with automobiles.

Schäfer mentioned the present Seat line-up would proceed to be produced till the tip of their present lifecycles however the Volkswagen Group was working to “find a different role” for the model after that.

Now Seat and Cupra UK boss Marcus Gossen has confirmed that the Spanish model continues to be rising alongside Cupra and that “Seat could have a automotive in 5 years’ time”.

‘We’re working exhausting to have the suitable entry degree for the [Volkswagen] Group, and the lead for that’s Seat SA in Spain,” he mentioned.

On condition that economies of scale would be the solely method to justify a worth EV such because the ID 1, a Seat-badged model is sensible.

It is prone to be even cheaper than the Volkswagen model and provides customers an reasonably priced entry level into the Volkswagen Group steady whereas securing the Seat model.

Gossen mentioned: “There is not any assertion a few BEV product for Seat at the moment. There’s at all times room for goals.” However he added: “With the ID 1, you solely make it work by sharing [technology].”

As a sibling to the ID 1, the brand new Seat would value comfortably lower than £20,000, sit on a bespoke worth platform and forgo the now-normal massive infotainment screens and longer ranges to make sure the worth have been saved down.

Simply as Volkswagen’s smallest EV will likely be an apparent alternative for the Up, so too will Seat’s fill the hole left by the retirement of the near-identical Mii.