Auto Active: Sometimes You Just Can't See the Wood for the Trees

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Seat Ibiza 1.9 TDi Sport

Price: pounds 13,495

Acceleration: 0-62mph 9.4sec

Max speed: 129mph

Average fuel consumption: 55.4mpg

Insurance group: 7

Want to get your hands on an exclusive car at a bargain-basement price? Then let me tell you a little secret: you can buy one for pounds 7,995. This gets you an entry-level Seat Ibiza, and once you're behind the wheel, I challenge you to spot another one on the road.

Before the new Ibiza was delivered for my test drive I would have been hard- pushed to describe what the old one looked like. Considering that the Ibiza is Seat's biggest-selling model (over 100,000 sold in the UK …