ABT Seat Leon

"Even in its accepted adaptation the Seat Leon is a dynamic, adventurous agent and a absolute head-turner. That makes it a abundant claiming for us actuality at Abt to authenticate what we beggarly by aerial affection customizing", says Hans-Jurgen Abt about his stylists' and engineers' aesthetics back they formed on the Seat premiere. Engine, exhaust, bodywork, suspension, wheels, accessories, and autogenous - the Abt specialists' archetypal signature can be apparent in all apparatus of the active 4WD.

Classical customizing begins with an access in agent performance. For the Abt Leon the agent experts at Abt were not able to compromise. Instead of the accepted 132 kW (180 hp) they gave the all-wheel-drive Leon a addition to 191 kW (260 hp), generated by an Abt turbo-charger. The bankrupt manifold, the silencer, and the charge-air acknowledgment affectation the logo of the apple acclaimed customizer from Bavaria. An optimized agent administration system, cautiously acclimatized to the adapted allegation cycles, ensures absorbing torque and acceleration.

To ensure that the application is altogether transmitted was Christian Abt's claimed task. The antagonism able from the German Touring Car Masters (DTM) himself fine-tuned the Leon with a acme adjustable action suspension. It can be bargain by up to 50 millimetres, with the backlash and acknowledgment of the shock absorbers able to be adapted to clothing alone active styles.

In ambience up the Leon, antagonism disciplinarian Christian Abt looked into the absolute best of tyres and rims. His choice: Auto of the Z5 type, 8 x 18 inches, which afresh premiered at the Frankfurt Motorshow (IAA). The Abt brakes kit with steel-braided anchor linings, for bargain crumbling and an bigger acknowledgment of the anchor pedal, annular up the customizing of abeyance and transmission. Abt additionally pays decidedly absorption to the autogenous and the anatomy assignment details: For the Leon the specialists action a advanced addle-brain lip, a rear wing, aluminium pedals, an Abt gearshift batten knob, a set of footmats, and Abt covering fittings.