Sports It modified into once truthful the different day we had been mourning the apparent demise of the successfully hot, petrol-powered hatchback from Cupra, with the present Leon’s high drivetrain blueprint to be reserved for the Sportstourer and the electrical Born VZ now high of the hatchback pile by attain of energy. UK pricing and specs for the present Cupra Leon believe truthful been published, though, and it appears to be we can even had been a bit premature in our disappointment.
As expected, within the occasion you wish the elephantine-elephantine 328bhp four-wheel force setup shared with the present Audi S3 and Volkswagen Golf R, you’ll wish to elephantine for the Sportstourer, which is no longer any irascible thing, because every person loves a snappily property. It moreover will get its German cousins’ torque splitter tech for oversteery antics, too. That high rung powertrain will blueprint you relief from £forty five,190.
Cupra Leon Sportstourer – aspect
What we didn’t know at the automobile’s present, though, is that the weak Leon 300’s powertrain will most certainly be carried over too. Odd to the hatch, it makes 296bhp from a 2.0-litre turbocharged four-pot, riding the entrance wheels via a seven-creep DSG computerized. That’ll price from £41,465 in VZ1 neat.
Utterly different powertrain alternatives consist of a 1.5-litre, 148bhp petrol – the supreme one accessible with a book gearbox – and two rush-in hybrids, offering total peaks of 201 and 272bhp.
Cupra Leon Sportstourer – interior
Unveiled alongside the up-to-the-minute Formentor, both hatch and Sportstourer variations of the Leon score the identical current ‘shark-nose’ entrance cease and triangular lights signatures. It’s arguably a bigger take care of the Leon, though – whereas the Formentor is a standalone Cupra model, you are going to also peaceable aquire a SEAT Leon, and the Cupra version’s current seek differentiates it considerably from its more pedestrian cousin, which truthful raises extra questions across the peaceable slightly sad future of SEAT.
The interior tweaks are the identical too, with a brand current 12.9-inch infotainment hide, a 12-speaker Sennheiser sound diagram, and a differ of more sustainable materials.
Cupra Leon – rear
All variations of the present Leon are on sale now, with the 296bhp hatch offering a welcome respite for the more previous hot hatch at a time when it feels more below menace than ever. Any probability of but another R version, Cupra?