What’s Spanish for 'meltdown'? That's what Seat chairman Thomas Schäfer caused at the Munich motor show last September when asked about the long-questioned future of the country's national car maker.
In a roundtable interview at which Autocar was present and reported his comments from first, Schäfer said “the future of Seat is Cupra”; investments would go to Cupra and Seat would get a “new role” that would be rooted more in different kinds of e-mobility.
An Australian journalist interviewed Seat and Cupra CEO Wayne Griffiths later that same day, and when the stories were put to him, he said the quotes had been “misunderstood”.
