SEAT Tribu

The SEAT Tribu was a compact SUV concept car built by the Spanish automaker SEAT in the autumn of 2007. The Tribu name was first used at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show for a concept with three doors and four bucket seats, the first project designed entirely by Luc Donckerwolke, the former Lamborghini designer who became SEAT's Design Director in September 2005. Official designs for a production model were sent to the World Intellectual Property Organization in August 2008 and then leaked; by then the car had five doors and a conventional boot opening and was due in early 2010. Development officially froze by December 2009 and the car did not reach production because of the economic conditions of the time. A compact SUV from SEAT did arrive later with the Ateca, launched in March 2016.