SEAT Tango

The SEAT Tango is a roadster concept car shown at the 2001 Frankfurt Motor Show, designed by a team directed by Walter de Silva with the contribution of SEAT's chief of exterior design Steve Lewis. It is a two door, two seater roadster on a cut down SEAT Ibiza platform, with a 180 PS version of the Volkswagen Group 1.8 litre 20VT engine driving the front wheels, and it carried extensive safety equipment for a show car. It was first meant to be called the Tanga after its rear end lines, but Volkswagen Group management found that name too provocative. The Tango was long rumoured to be heading for production and had the backing of chairman Bernd Pischetsrieder, yet it never received approval, because decisions in the Audi brand group favoured models with clearer sales logic, such as the Altea. It won the Autonis award for concept cars in 2002.