[1] Official designs for SEAT of the production model were submitted to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in August 2008, and subsequently leaked.

[3][4] The concept car had suffered radical changes, featuring five doors and the more conventional boot opening.

[5][6] Several car magazines were quick to turn these official grey-scale pictures into computer-generated images that showed the Tribu in near final form as the rebadged version of the Volkswagen Tiguan.

[7] In March 2014, Auto Express reported that SEAT were working on a family of CUVs, with an estimated release date of 2016.

This proved to be exact with the launch of the SEAT Ateca SUV in March 2016, at the Geneva Motor Show.