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 The new SEAT Leon ST’s accomplished mix of attractive coupé styling and surprisingly functional and roomy estate characteristics gets the thumbs up from AID Once the workhorse of larger than average middle class families, a trend perhaps best typified in the UK by the traditional popularity of Volvo’s boxy estates, of late the conventional estate has been squeezed out of the market by the SUV-Crossovers, today’s defining shape of the desirable utility motor. It isn’t exactly extinction for the conventional estate car, but a perpetually growing wave of Crossovers has continued to move in on its territory, thus leaving estates with a forever shrinking share of sales. And the evidence, if any were needed, comes from recent UK car sales figures, which clearly tell their own story. Almost exactly a decade ago, conventional estates on their own were still responsible for one-in-ten of the new cars sold in the UK according to SMMT (Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders) figures...more > ROAD TEST | Rebirth of design icon - Audi’s 3rd generation TT 09 Apr 2014 > ROAD TEST | Nissan Qashqai – builds on successful qualities 18 Mar 2014 > ROAD TEST | Dacia Logan - Romanian immigrant with a difference 03 Mar 2014 |
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