The Cupra Formentor VZ5 arrives as a limited run model boasting the 385bhp five-pot engine from Audi’s RS 3. But not for the UK. Updated: It seems the Cupra Formentor VZ5 WILL be available in the UK, but only in LHD. Believe it or not, it’s three years since the first car from the Cupra […]

The Cupra Formentor is now available in the UK with a plug-in hybrid powertrain delivering 242bhp and EV range of 32 miles. The last few bits of Cupra Formetor news we’ve had in the last few months have been a new entry-level Cupra Formentor V1, and a (for now) range-topping Cupra Formentor VZ2. And now […]

The Cupra Formentor – the ‘Not a SEAT’ Cupra – arrives in cheaper ‘V1’ trim with a 1.5 litre petrol engine and prices starting at £27,395. It was pre-Covid lockdown when the CUPRA Formentor was revealed as the production take on the Cupra Formentor Concept, and staking its claim as the first Cupra from the […]

The new Cupra Formentor – the first Cupra that’s not a SEAT – goes on sale in the UK, with the performance versions starting at £39,830 for the VZ2. The Cupra Formentor, trumpeted as the first Cupra that’s not a SEAT, arrived as a concept eighteen months ago, and it took Cupra/SEAT another year to […]

The new SEAT Leon can now be ordered with SEAT’s first plug-in hybrid in the Leon e-HYBRID, and there’s a mild-hybrid option too. When you get a new Volkswagen Golf – which we’ve had with the arrival of the Golf Mk8 a year ago – you also get new siblings from other parts of the […]

The Cupra Ateca – the Cupra ‘Standalone’ take on the SEAT Ateca – gets a bit of a facelift pretty much mirroring the recent updates to SEAT’s Ateca. Just as we’ve had to get used to Citroen’s DS models being their own ‘Brand’, and Polestar not being Volvo, SEAT has gone a similar route by […]

The SEAT Ateca SUV gets a 2020 facelift, with styling cues taken from the new SEAT Leon as well as additional tech and new engines. Following the ‘compulsory’ tease for the SEAT Ateca facelift last week, we now get its reveal as SEAT takes styling cues from the new Leon (or Tarraco – take you […]

The SEAT Ateca is getting a bit of a facelift for 2020, with cosmetic tweaks bringing Tarraco design cues, new interior and new technology. It’s more than four years since the SEAT Ateca arrived as SEAT’s first SUV, aiming itself squarely at popular SUVs like the Nissan Qashqai. So now it’s time for a bit […]

The new SEAT Leon – SEAT’s take on the new VW Golf – goes on sale in the UK as a Hatch and Estate with prices starting from £19,855. Another day, another VW Golf Mk8 in different clothes goes on sale in the UK, with the new SEAT Leon joining the new Skoda Octavia as […]