The green on the UK comparator site I don't think replicates what the colour that it will be, whilst elsewhere where you see the more vivid colour it should be called jungle frog green, rather than jungle green. The Seat configure site colour to me seems to be dead forest jungle green rather than healthy forest jungle green. The German Seat site has the same dead colour so I would expect they have got that wrong colour or the name across all of the Seat websites.
I would quite like the Beige Cappuccino if it was the same colour as my Altea Sport "silver" that goes down with a hint of beige at times. It was actually called "Platinum Grey" as I've pulled he paper work but takes on the colour of beige and bronze rather than silver. Now if Beige Cappuccino was the same colour I would be more than happy. I need to inspect the colours at a Seat dealer ideally on an
Ateca but that won't be for a while I guess. Decent discounts and I would take the plunge.
The Kodiaq is going to be the 7 seater Skoda for 2017 and the Yeti replacement is for 2018 which will be the potential sister car to the
Ateca. The
Ateca has the Leon lines in it with the angular shapes. The story so far on the Leon. Mk1 will skip that as to who designed it. Walter de Silva designed the the Altea and Mk2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_de_Silva
Walter joined from Alfa and gave the Altea the Alfa 156 lines since that was his style. The Leon was getting tired so they used the same design styles on that to "Alfa" it up a bit. So that's the Mk2. He moved over to Audi in the middle of designing the Altea, but continued on it, so it was marketed as being designed by Audi. After the release of the Altea they wanted to give the Leon the Altea looks which they did for the
Leon Mk2.
For the
Leon Mk3, my design interpretation on this one is they went for a Teutonic Art Deco look, so you have the angular effects on it, the angular wing mirrors etc, still has the Walter concept in it to an extent. The creases which Alfa were big into were shifted to Seat. Along comes the
Ateca which keeps the angular look of the Mk3 and gets the pronounced honeycomb grill. The Spanish design studio is suppose come up with the
Ateca. Walter is the big white chief of VW design so one suspects they have to keep him happy. All those angular criss crosses that you see in the design drawing of the
Ateca light cluster are Art Deco. Looking at the front of the
Leon Mk3 that's pretty Art Deco, they have have now taken that round the back as well to the light cluster on the
Ateca .
Well Sadek Amin Garcia is the chief designer for Seat taking up the reigns. Sunday Times interview in 2015 makes an interesting read:
http://www.driving.co.uk/news/inter...s-little-white-lie-at-coventry-design-school/
It all about “Tensional”, “sculptural” and “characterful”. Which he explains so you're left wondering art deco perhaps, those angular bits
.
Then in another interview it's turns out he designed the 2012 Europa League logo:
https://translate.google.co.uk/tran...dpress.com/2012/03/26/amin-sadek/&prev=search
Which does have an art deco feel to it
. That was a give away in 2012.
I suspect that most
Leon Mk3 owners don't realise that they are driving an art deco influenced car and it's just been upped a bit on the
Ateca. I pass on what the design influences are of the Skoda range accept boxy for some of them. Certainly Walter's arrival to Seat in the motoring press was well documented at the time and given he's head of VW design group he probably takes a special interest in the Seat designs keeping it fairly unique from the other brands in the group. Seat says itself it wants it's own design style across models.
Clearly the marketing people see Leon owners as potential buyers but that presupposes they want this kind of car. One suspects that Seat needs to pull in new people from other brands and it's just a bit transparent to say got a Leon, you need an
Ateca, more likely got an Altea you need a
Ateca. But then they have sold more Leon's to Altea's so prefer not to say that which gives them a challenge. The building on the success bit of the Leon doesn't really get them too far if Leon owners are happy with their low slung saloons and don't see a need for an SUV. I look at a Leon and think backache from sitting too low.
It wouldn't be true to say that Skoda designers had a hand in the
Ateca just because it's built in a factory that they use. VW group itself decided that they would make the
Ateca in the East European plant since it was more economic than Spain and had capacity. Basically the plants are deployed by the VW group to manufacture across the brands and the design studios are retained in the countries. The famous VW parts bin they have access to wherever the car is made. The designers create the folds and shapes in their sketches, CADs and models, the engineers accommodate this using the modular designs of VW and the VW standard components
.