Unveiled at the 1984 Paris Motor Show, the Ibiza was SEAT’s first car developed as an independent company after its licensing arrangement with Fiat ended, though it leaned on outside expertise throughout: Giorgetto Giugiaro’s Italdesign drew the body, Karmann prepared it for production, and Porsche co-developed the gearbox and engines under the “System Porsche” name, a badge SEAT could only put on the engine block after agreeing to pay Porsche a royalty per car.[1] It sold well enough, 1.34 million units, to fund the marque’s expansion through the rest of the 1980s, and it served as the official car of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics alongside the SEAT Toledo.
Three trims are recorded here: the 1.2-litre carburettor petrol the range launched with, an injected 1.5-litre petrol, and the 1.7-litre indirect- injection diesel inherited from Fiat. Every power figure in the source’s engine table is explicitly given in both PS and kW, so no conversion ambiguity applies here, unlike SEAT’s later generations of this same car.