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Written by Stephen Dobie
This whole Cupra thing is confusing us. Mere months into the dawn of Seat"s performance sub-brand - which has eschewed all Seat badging in favour of a copper tribal tattoo design, in a bid to be seen as a different entity - we have a brand new Cupra that"s still a Seat. Only we"re not sure it"s really brand new, either. Last year, Seat applied some of the Leon Cupra R"s carbon bodywork and its Brembo brakes to the Cupra ST estate, calling it the Carbon Edition. Now, it"s launched a Cupra R ST and - more aggressively cambered, copper-coloured wheels aside - it appears to be pretty much the same thing, right down to an identical 296bhp output and 4.9sec 0-62mph time. So as well as being 10bhp down on the Leon Cupra R hatch, it"s also eschewed its front-wheel drive and manual gearbox, keeping the regular ST"s four-wheel drive and paddleshifter.
Date written: 13 Mar 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15140
This whole Cupra thing is confusing us. Mere months into the dawn of Seat"s performance sub-brand - which has eschewed all Seat badging in favour of a copper tribal tattoo design, in a bid to be seen as a different entity - we have a brand new Cupra that"s still a Seat. Only we"re not sure it"s really brand new, either. Last year, Seat applied some of the Leon Cupra R"s carbon bodywork and its Brembo brakes to the Cupra ST estate, calling it the Carbon Edition. Now, it"s launched a Cupra R ST and - more aggressively cambered, copper-coloured wheels aside - it appears to be pretty much the same thing, right down to an identical 296bhp output and 4.9sec 0-62mph time. So as well as being 10bhp down on the Leon Cupra R hatch, it"s also eschewed its front-wheel drive and manual gearbox, keeping the regular ST"s four-wheel drive and paddleshifter.
Date written: 13 Mar 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15140