SEAT Leon Cupra 280 competition video

This should explain why we couldn't reveal too much initially...

By Matt Bird / Friday, 25 April 2014 / Loading comments

You may remember PH recently ran a competition for a preview experience of the

before the Geneva show. There was very little we could give away at the time, which this video can now make clear.

It wasn't just a poke around the cabin and a peer under the bonnet, as may have been expected. Without wishing to reveal to spoil the surprise (again!), it really was a passenger experience unlike anything else. There were two Leons, a helicopter, a dockyard setting and some swearing from the competition winners. And handbrake turns, of course. What's a good car video without a handbrake turn?

So what was purported to be a simulator experience turned out to be rather a lot more. Thanks to SEAT for getting PHers involved! Furthermore, SEAT has also published the full Cupra 'ring record lap. Turns out the car is definitely a manual after all and 7:58 looks very fast indeed.

See the simulator video here.