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 […]
Cupra Ateca gets a bit of a FACELIFT to keep up withe SEAT’s Ateca
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 […]
SEAT Ateca SUV gets a bit of a ‘Leon’ facelift for 2020
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 […]
SEAT Ateca facelift TEASED ahead of debut on 15 June
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 […]
New 2020 SEAT Leon goes on sale in the UK – starts at £20k
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 […]
Cupra Formentor ARRIVES as the first Cupra that’s not a SEAT
The Cupra Formentor arrives as a production model, a year after the concept, as Cupra reveal their first standalone model. SEAT’s now standalone brand Cupra has, so far, only managed to deliver models that would, before the ‘split’, have been Cupra-badged versions of SEAT models. But a year ago Cupra were threatening to deliver a […]
Cupra ‘Cupra-fies’ the SEAT LEON in Hatch and Estate and adds plug-in hybrid to the mix
SEAT’s performance arm Cupra has got its hands on the LEON to deliver a new Cupra LEON as a hatch and estate with plug-in hybrid option. Cupra, SEAT’s now standalone performance brand, has only had the Ateca to offer so far, but now it’s got a new model, with two body shapes and a plug-in […]
SEAT Tarraco FR and FR Sport arrive for a touch of Tarraco ‘Sportiness’
SEAT bring a couple of new ‘sporty’ trim options to the Tarraco SUV range – FR and FR Sport – with prices starting from £31,680. On sale now. It’s a bit over a year since the SEAT Tarraco arrived as SEAT’s range-topping SUV, but SEAT has now got round to delivering ‘sporty’ trim options for […]