Freetrack with authentic soul Lionheart. Seat returns to the field from which cover not only offensive tourism and SUV with a single model, but also transform the X-perience in the most refined of all time Seat.

95 percent X-Perience Lion is a ST 4Drive; the other remaining 5 percent is what it the Seat most versatile … even for those who are not going to step on the field in your life. Transformation is not only external props, there suspension changes (Springs 15 mm longer), wheel (High profile) and damping (New settings) to turn it into a real roadrunner. Freetrack soul, but the new name takes you to read between the lines because, actually, X-perience involves not only able to overcome certain heights high or off the asphalt, but also reach the top within the brand itself. Evolution in practicality, clearly more likely than any other lion, but also in the treatment of the product; there is not more refined in Seat.

If you want everything you have to get here, as the version that we tested, with one of the most exotic mechanical combinations have few brand: Engine 2.0 TDi 184 hp, DSG and all-wheel drive, power at about body ST to dry only can combine with FR finish and front wheel drive. Looking ahead to the first accounts, more than balanced 2.0 TDi / 150 allows us to see the cost of "transformation" family to pseudosuv", Just 380 euros X-perience the fully translated into advantages.

It is clear that the X-perience is not the car to go to the jungle, but a devourer of tracks or roads where you can shoot very fast without having that feeling of being tortured chassis, suspension and interior trims thanks to absorption capacity and filtering already wanted for themselves the vast majority of SUV. Impeccable work metal spring suspension and fixed settings which optionally may be variable adjustment payment of the option, though admittedly not see it at all necessary given the set-up achieved and the compromise between effectiveness and comfort, dividing equally merits. It is, without doubt, its greatest quality, the same as backcountry, makes the X-perience in the most comfortable León you can drive right now.

If the nearly three additional centimeters separating him from the ground are a world away from the asphalt to circulate with certain guarantees, it does not mean practically nothing because the dynamic behavior reference remains although initially there is something more body roll in supporting, I will not sag or slowed body movements. Agile, responsive, very precise in its guidance, the X-perience remains faithful representative of the sports-oriented and dynamic hides all self-respecting León. And if it shows well between curves, also makes it clear slowing: even with longer stroke damping, brands are better than any other Leon ST that has passed through our Technical Center, including the RF front-wheel drive with which it shares a computer disc in the X-Perience are by weight 120 kilos more.

FR heart

Suspension and wheels aside, technically, the other mechanical difference is that all versions X-perience are somewhat longer development than equivalent ST. Not much really, just 2 km / h on the sixth DSG that for the TDi / 184 version no longer leave a transmission neutral but in practice still seems so short push the engine at low speeds. It is not surprising, therefore, goeth in quantity and quality this X-perience León, able to cover the kilometers standing start in the same tenth, for example, an A3 Sportback with identical engine, gearbox and drive system. So to all intents and purposes you have in your hands sportsmanship and mechanical response of a true León FR with a concussive punching power also the result of good work speed and clutch DSG "wet" and an engine, from 1,000 rpm, is all strength and elasticity. It will not be the best turbodiesel stretching up, but what you offer in just three thousand spare revolutions and sufficient for, plus a large acceleration capacity, add another variable more general welfare of the X-perience: more samples of refinement that cross mechanical operation itself: its also low noise or impeccable finishes that contribute to the feeling of roundness.

One of a kind … At the moment, until the Golf Alltrack kit that extends the off-road X-perience controlled decline in costs. Have therefore put the eye on the authentic SUV body sobreelevada where many do not offer such a powerful engine or where, for the same price, or have to settle for more modest engines, or failing renounce the AWD. Among other equivalent formats, the offer includes only larger bodies from a more specialized Subaru Opel Insignia Forster to a Cross Country, through which probably is the toughest opponent for X-perience, the Skoda Scout: Same mechanics based on a body of immense capacity, but also fifteen centimeters higher than a more manageable Leon ST in which the X-perience version does not sacrifice a single centimeter of life on board.

In a nutshell

Acceleration. Highly refined and uninterrupted acceleration thanks to DSG, where the X-perience shows what really lurks the soul of a FR TDi.

Change. The 58 km / h in sixth gear at maximum speed (from 3,500 rpm) provide a short theoretical development, or at least practically neutral. So goes the Lion

Frenada. All ST Leon 2.0 TDI (150/184 hp) we tested (always with section 225 mm wheel), the X-perience has been the best distances achieved.

Consumption.150 kg ST no more than a pinch wheel drive charged in average consumption: spends between 0.3 and 0.5 l / 100 km more than TDi / DSG 150 or FR TDi 184 hp, both ST.

Overtaking. Plenty of good power and torque together with a large automatic transmission also can only achieve a winning combination: This lion is very fast and very safe, for example, to join a motorway.

livability. In its evolution X-perience a useful or interior roominess or centimeter trunk capacity is lost. Width is only something right. Weight, within more reasonable limits.

Sonority. Very high quality product that is also reflected in this: very good without penalties to prevent a conversation with absolute normality values.