SEAT has added air conditioning as standard to its six-car Cordoba model line-up - making it the UK's first sub-£13,000 sports saloon to offer the feature. Nineteen of Seat's 32 UK models now offer air conditioning as standard - the Toledo and Alhambra ranges are the other two model line-up.

Prices of the newly arrived air conditioned models remain at their October 1996 levels with on the road prices being: 1.6 SE £11,995, 1.6 SXE (100bhp) £12,995, 1.9 D SE £11,995, 1.9 TDi SXE £14,400, 1.6 SX coupe £13,500, 2.0 16v SX coupe £15,995.