RE: New Cupra Tavascan officially unveiled

[gonzales_turbo]

Second Best said:

That said, the Tavascan is a joint venture between VWAG and a Chinese company, and given that they have the Jetta brand in China, I can understand if it turns out to be a premium VWAG product intended for the Chinese market. I might just be an ignorant consumer but I don't see the Tavascan really making strides in the UK market.

I’m afraid their strategy is very effective: the article doesn’t even remind us that this is another “made in china” car.
The goal is to simply be seen as another ID4, but at the same time it is to have a very expensive Chinese product that can have huge margins.
I believe it’s a clever move in the short term but a very destructive one later.

[pacdes]

A bit like a baby Urus.

[swisstoni]

Cupras are some of the nicer styled cars around today imho.

[forzaminardi]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[1974foggy]

Im totally flaccid.

[Mr Whippy]

Looks like the new Lotus Evita or whatever, but curvy.

Needs scaling in the Z dimension by 30% just like the Lotus and Tesla 3.

Just who wants to be sat so high up?

[nickfrog]

RC1807 said:

C69 said:

You drive a what? A Cupra Gaviscon?

my first thought, too!

Yes me too.

I think it looks great though and seems like a great proposition as a family car.

[M1C]

I think it'll do quite well. It's the right 'type' of car that is popular.

I see quite a few Formentors around - more so than i would ever have expected.

[nismo48]

C69 said:

You drive a what? A Cupra Gaviscon?

[Hitch]

I like it. If it came with a 2.0 biffing 330bhp to all four wheels lots more would too. Those days are over unfortunately!

I'd have this over most of the bland offerings out there.

[MB140]

Hitch said:

I like it. If it came with a 2.0 biffing 330bhp to all four wheels lots more would too. Those days are over unfortunately!

I'd have this over most of the bland offerings out there.

Erm the Cupra Formentor (however the fk you spell it), A golf R with what looks like the body shell from a Tavascan grafted on top.

https://www.cupraofficial.com/cars/cupra-range/for...

Id rather the Formentor especially the top spec one with all the bels and whistles. about £44k new

[the-norseman]

Looks nice but will be silly ££££

[DaveyBoyWonder]

Christ thats ugly

[AlexIT]

Sheepshanks said:

Niponeoff said:

It's an odd marketing strategy to branch the sports models away from Seat with the Cupra brand, then proceed to market SUV's under that brand.

It’s widely assumed the SEAT name will disappear soon.

And once they are all Cupra, they'll launch the Cupra "Seat edition" and then start it all over again.

[dino_jr]

BUMP - Autocar review just out is a bit meh, but the RWD variant when available could be quite nice. I like the shape of this, may look into one when depreciation takes hold

[Jader1973]

Named after something pregnant women from Yorkshire do.

“Ah’m just of tavascan of the baby”.

[grudas]

I already can't tell them apart.

white goods vehicles these days.

[resolve10]

They problem with Cupras is they always look smart in launch spec with the matt paint, bronze wheels etc, then you see them start to turn up in the company fleet car park and they look totally anonymous in lease-spec silver with standard wheels.

[DaveyBoyWonder]

kambites said:

As do the Skoda products, which makes a bit of a mockery of the whole brand hierarchy thing really. I guess this is what happens when VAG insist on VW and Audi getting the cutting-edge stuff when VAG as an organisation are well behind the competition in terms of technology; the "higher end" brands just end up releasing half-finished products.

I really struggle to see why anyone would buy an ID3 over a Cupra Born; or an ID4 over a Skoda Enyaq.


ETA: Stupid name though. Nearly as bad as "MG Cyberster".

Edited by kambites on Friday 21st April 22:02

Because the Skoda and Cupra options are absolutely gopping?

[nickfrog]

DaveyBoyWonder said:

Because the Skoda and Cupra options are absolutely gopping?

I quite like them. Must be subjective I guess.