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A replacement for the Seat Alhambra MPV will be launched next year, Autocar has learned.

The car is part of a series of new models from the Spanish brand, some of which are confirmed, others still under discussion for the next two years.

Bucking the trend for downsizing in the MPV segment, the new Alhambra will stay big.

“The Ford Galaxy is still the segment leader, and the new car will compete with that,” said Seat sales and marketing boss Jan Lafrentz.

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 lol its about time this design must have been around from about 1995

Yes, people moan about how long-in-the-tooth the SAAB 9-5 was but this thing is a good two or three years older than that and still a year away from replacement..

I have seen spy shots of the next gen Sharan, which will come in 2011 with sliding rear doors (a must, IMHO, for a family van this size). I am surprised that an Alhambra is due out in 2010 and I wonder whether it is going to be a Sharan clone (like the current one), complete with sliding doors, which would be surprising since the actual Sharan is not due before 2011; or something less sophisticated, perhaps with the cheaper conventional rear doors.