SEAT Bocanegra concept car

The SEAT Bocanegra is a three-door

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, built by the Spanish automaker

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and designed by former

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designer

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who at the moment had been assigned SEAT's design director. It was presented at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show, sporting a more aggressive image as a showcase for the fifth-generation SEAT Ibiza, which was introduced in May 2008 at the

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. The name Bocanegra - standing for "Black Mouth" in Spanish - derives from the whole front bumper made out of black-painted plastic with the headlights encased in clear perspex, tracing back to a previous SEAT model from the 1970s, the 1200 Sport which at the time had been nicknamed ''Bocanegra'' because of its black plastic front end. It has a 1.4-liter TSI engine giving , and a newly presented seven-speed direct shift gearbox.

SEAT Bocanegra production model

The Bocanegra concept car's front end was carried to the fourth generation of the SEAT Ibiza as a special edition featuring the Bocanegra name, meant to be carried over in a limited series of 1,000 cars per year production. A Boconegra version of the Ibiza ST estate was shown as a concept at Wörthersee 2010.

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