The new Cupra Leon Estate arrives as SEAT’s performance brand gives the Leon Estate the Golf R’s powertrain with 306bhp and 4WD. Costs from £38,475. It’s more than a year since the Cupra Leon Estate arrived as SEAT’s performance brand Cupra-fied the SEAT Leon Estate and gave it a powertrain not entirely dissimilar to the […]
SEAT Ibiza Supermini and SEAT Arona Crossover UPDATED for 2021
The SEAT Arona and SEAT Ibiza get a range of updates for 2021, with modest cosmetic titivations and some new technology. It’s a bit of a SEAT update day, with tweaks for 2021 for both the SEAT Arona Crossover and the SEAT Ibiza supermini, both coming in for various cosmetic tweaks and a bit of […]
Electric CUPRA Born – SEAT’s ‘Performance’ take on the VW ID.3 – winter testing ahead of debut
The CUPRA Born, a VW ID.3-based electric car from SEAT’s CUPRA brand, is winter testing ahead of a debut in the coming weeks. With Volkswagen rolling out the electric ID.3 and ID.4 models, ‘lesser’ VW brands are following with their own take on the ID underpinnings, and SEAT’s CUPRA brand take on the ID.3 – […]
Small Electric SEAT Urban Crossover on the way – but not until 2025
SEAT announce plans to deliver a new compact urban electric concept in 2025, costing between £17k and £22k. With the seemingly unstoppable move to electric cars, one of the biggest problems is going to be how to deliver small and affordable EVs to the market when batteries are still so expensive. We’re already seeing City […]
Cupra Formentor VZ5 gets Audi’s 385bhp five-pot from the RS 3 | UPDATED: In the UK but only LHD
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 […]
CUPRA Formentor e-HYBRID plug-in with 242bhp now on sale in the UK
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 […]
CUPRA Formentor V1 arrives to cut the Formentor’s entry price to £27,395
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 Cupra Formentor you want – the 306bhp Formentor VZ2 – on sale from £39,830
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 […]
SEAT Leon e-HYBRID PHEV and mild-hybrid eTSI go on sale – Leon PHEV from £30,970
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 […]
SEAT el-Born ELECTRIC hatch turns in to the CUPRA el-Born
The electric SEAT el-Born Concept has turned in to the CUPRA el-Born electric Hatch as VW Group’s first performance EV becomes a CUPRA. Prior to the Geneva Motor Show (which didn’t happen) we got a look at the SEAT el-Born concept as SEAT preempted its expected debut at Geneva with a reveal and a bit […]