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April 24, 2014: SEATs best-selling model, with five million sold Giugiaro, deSilva and Donkerwolke among the car design legends with a hand in the Ibiza story

This coming Sunday (27 April 2014) will be exactly 30 years since the very first SEAT Ibiza rolled off the production line in SEATs Zona Franca factory. Since that day, the Ibiza has remained SEATs most iconic and popular car, with sales approaching five million across three decades and four generations.

The car was a game-changer for SEAT, the first designed and developed completely by the Spanish company from start to finish with a little help from some friends. Namely, collaborations with Giorgetto Giugiaros Italdesign design company, coachbuilder Karmann, and Porsche helped make the Ibiza a truly cutting edge small car, and the foundation of 30 years of ongoing success.

The very embodiment of the Spain of the 80s, the first SEAT Ibiza was ambitious, dynamic and ground-breaking. Its name, taken from the Mediterranean island, reinforced the exotic image given to it by virtue of its Spanish roots.

The backdrop chosen for the world premire of the SEAT Ibiza was the prestigious Paris Motor Show in 1984, and from then on the car has gone from strength-to-strength, achieving success both in its domestic market (it has been the best-selling supermini in Spain since 2001, for example) and abroad, with almost seven of every ten produced exported; 69% of 5,000,000 total Ibiza production has been exported to more than 75 countries worldwide.

The most important markets for the Ibiza during the early years were Italy, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Portugal and Mexico, in addition to Spain.

SEAT will celebrate this resounding and continued success with the launch of a 30th Anniversary model, set to go on sale in June.1

History: the SEAT Ibiza and the Martorell production plant

SEAT ended the 80s with production and sales records, and became a member of the Volkswagen Group. Until 1993 the brands activity had been concentrated in the Barcelona Zona Franca, but its membership of a new group, the success of its new models, and the need to increase production meant that a new industrial production complex was required. SEAT would be provided with a new modern factory next to its Technical Centre in Martorell, opened in 1991.

The second-generation Ibiza would be the first vehicle built at SEATs new Martorell production facility. More than that, the establishment of the new factory would give rise to the creation of a suppliers industrial estate, which at that time comprised 20 companies.

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Eve and her fianc Maximillion Cooper are to hold their pre-wedding celebrations at the Gumball Rally, before tying the knot three days later in Ibiza.

Eve is to have her bachelorette party at the Gumball Rally.

The 35-year-old rapper - real name Eve Jeffers - and her fianc Maximillion Cooper will take part in the 3,000-mile international motor rally, which will see them travel across two continents and five countries in seven days in separate cars, as part of the run-up to their wedding celebrations.

The couple met and fell in love at the London rally in 2010, so Maximillion, who is the founder of Gumball 3000, is pulling out all the stops by closing down Regent Street in London on June 8, before making a pit stop in Edinburgh, where he proposed to Eve last Christmas.

The couple will then travel on to Ibiza, Spain, for the finale party before tying the knot three days later.

Maximillion said: ''The idea of driving 3,000 miles all the way from Miami to get to our wedding in Ibiza sounds pretty crazy, but we met on the Gumball back in 2010 when Eve participated as a celebrity guest of Puma.

''So incorporating the rally into our wedding plans seemed to be appropriate. I think the drama of this adventure suits our lives and driving together with 100 other supercars will undoubtedly be a lot of fun, especially as these six days will double up as my bachelor week!

''Incorporating Edinburgh into the route and stopping off in London just adds to the romanticism, having met in London and proposed on Christmas Day in Edinburgh ... I can't wait!''

Meanwhile, other celebrity stars taking part in the rally, which kicks off in Miami, are to be announced soon.

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Sanford Jay Frank, the Emmy Award-winning writer and producer, screenwriting guru and conservative ideologue whom everyone called Sandy, died at his home in Calabasas on April 18 of complications arising out of a glioblastoma, a cancerous brain tumor. He was 59.

Frank grew up in Springfield, Mass., where his father worked at the post office. He attended Harvard, where he found an outlet for his humor when he joined the Harvard Lampoon, also creating lifelong friendships with Jim Downey (Saturday Night Live) and Lawrence ODonnell (The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell). Frank graduated from Harvard Law School and became an associate at the prestigious law firm Donovan Leisure. However, as Frank told the Chicago Tribune in a 1985 article, There wasnt room for humor in a law firm. So he took what would turn out to be a better-paying job, writing for Late Night with David Letterman. The hardest part of the job, Frank said, was learning to stop dressing up for work.

At Letterman, Frank created the legendary 1984 Velcro suit stunt, in which the late-night host donned a suit made of Velcro, jumped on a mini trampoline and adhered to a wall. It became one of the defining icons of Lettermans show and his humor. Frank won four Emmy awards for his writing.

Frank was also on the writing team of the culture-defining sketch comedy show In Living Color, which brought prominence to the Wayans family, as well as to actors Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx and Alexandra Wentworth, and to Jennifer Lopez and Rosie Perez as dancers and choreographers. Franks recurring sketch Men on Film has often been cited as one of the shows most memorable highlights and was a frequent contender for feature film development.

After In Living Color, Frank worked on a number of African-American-led sitcoms, including Martin and The Jamie Foxx Show. What Frank loved about working on those shows, he often said, was that there always came a moment when the performers and writing staff would forget he was a white Jewish kid, drop all their inhibitions and enter a zone where anyone could say what they really felt about the issues of the day which at the time included the O.J. Simpson trial.

At Harvard, Frank was part of the Reagan-era embrace by young intellectuals of conservative thought that led to the birth of the neoconservative movement led by such Jewish Republicans as Franks Harvard classmates Eric Breindel and William Kristol, among others. Frank liked nothing more than to take a liberal point of view to its most absurd endpoint in order to deflate it.

The opportunity for Frank to do so in writing first came during Lawrence ODonnells short-lived one-hour drama about a freshman senator, Mister Sterling; then for a half-hour program that mocked the liberal news media and establishment, The 1/2 Hour News Hour, which was conceived by Joel Surnow (24) as a conservative answer to The Daily Show. It was put on the air by Roger Ailes of Fox News, with Frank as head writer and Dennis Miller, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter as commentators. Although the show never found its footing and was canceled after 15 episodes, Frank earned the respect and friendship of such conservative luminaries as Coulter and Limbaugh as well as Andrew Breitbart.

Following the shows cancellation, Frank worked on a variety of entrepreneurial and creative projects including founding an SAT and test prep school, and writing what some call the Gemara of screenwriting, The Inner Game of Screenwriting (Michael Wiese, 2011). He was also working on a screenplay, which remained unfinished at the time of his death.

Frank battled brain cancer for two years, during which, despite challenging moments, he was able to spend memorably good times with his wife, Pam, and daughters Priscilla (a UC Berkeley graduate who is now the arts and culture editor of the Huffington Post), Harley (about to graduate from Berkeley) and Michaela (a freshman at Tulane University). He is also survived by his brother, Eric Frank. He will be missed by all who enjoyed his comedy, and mourned by all who knew him. May his memory be a blessing.

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