SEAT has shared a video that condenses the entire build time of a new Leon ST into a coupe of minutes. The Spanish carmaker said it used GoPro cameras to get the necessary footage from inside their production plant where the VW Group MQB-based Leon ST is made.
The idea was to “get right inside” the manufacturing process yet not force viewers to spend too long taking it in, thus thankfully, it’s quite short – nobody would have watched until the end otherwise.
The footage was captured at the Martorell plant, in Spain, a plant that employs the service of 10,000 workers and over 2,800 robots – the result is 2,000 cars per day.
In real life, each Leon ST takes 19 hours to complete from scratch and is comprised of 5,900 parts, including almost a mile of wiring.
SEAT says that the Martorell factory is one of the most modern and advanced of its kind in the word, not only in terms of actually providing facilities to build cars, but also trying to use less energy while doing so – it now harbors the “biggest installation of solar panels in the automotive industry, saving thousands of tonnes of CO2 per year.”
By Andrei Nedelea
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