Seat’s Alhambra gets everything right

There are cars out there which consistently and mysteriously fly under the radar of a majority of buying customers.

The Seat Alhambra is one of them and I, for one, cannot understand why this truly excellent beast of burden is not a car which more families turn to for their daily needs. It is value for money (€38,995 — €49,562 as tested) as spacious as a marquee, drives really well and stuffed full of kit. What’s not to like?

Ok, so Seat might not be the most salubrious name out there and the Spanish manufacturer may suffer from that old demon it has faced for years — badge snobbery — but you have to remember that it is part of the VW Group and while that name might have been tarnished recently by the company’s horrendous duplicity, the simple fact is that having access to its parts bin is a boon indeed to subsidiary companies. Just ask Skoda.