Cupra Tavascan Endurance 2025 review: snapshot

EXPERT RATING
8.4

Likes

Competitive pricing
Sporty handling/comfy ride compromise
Good looks

Dislikes

No spare wheel
Light on equipment specification
Some suspension noise
Byron Mathioudakis

Contributing Journalist

2 min read

The Cupra Tavascan is available in two grades for Australia – the aptly named Endurance and racier VZ flagship.

Sharply priced, the Endurance employs a rear-axle-mounted electric motor for rear-wheel drive, and comes standard with a usefully large battery capacity for longer range driving than many rivals around its price point.

Designed in Spain and using Volkswagen Group German engineering, the Tavascan is made in China and is pitched as a medium-sized coupe SUV.

Equipment levels include autonomous emergency braking (AEB), lane-support systems, seven airbags and even a handy vehicle exit warning system.

You’ll also find digital instrumentation, adaptive cruise control, three-zone climate control, sports front seats, a heated steering wheel, a 15-inch touchscreen, reverse camera, wireless Apple CarPlay/Android Auto, wireless phone charging, a quartet of USB-C ports, a hands-free powered tailgate, front and rear parking sensors, and 19-inch alloys.

An Interior Package option ushers in heated and powered front seats with memory, a surround-view camera, microfibre cabin trim, more colourful ambient lighting, a 12-speaker Sennheiser audio upgrade and 20-inch wheels.

Sadly, however, a tyre mobility kit takes the place of a spare wheel.

The electric motor makes 210kW of power and 545Nm of torque, and sends drive to the rear wheels via a single-speed transmission, for a 0-100km/h sprint of 6.8 seconds, on the way to a top speed of 180km/h.

The battery pack, meanwhile consists of an 82kWh-gross/77kWh-useable Lithium-ion set-up, nestled within a 400-volt EV-only architecture that the VW Group dubs MEB.

As its name implies, the Endurance offers more driving range than the VZ, with a WLTP-verified 534km. Its combined average consumption figures are between 15.2 and 16.0kWh/100km.

Finally, the Tavascan comes with a five-year/unlimited-kilometre warranty, with five years of roadside assistance and eight years/160,000km coverage for the battery.

Service intervals are every 24 months or 30,000km.

Read the full 2025 Cupra Tavascan review

Cupra Tavascan 2025: Endurance

Seating 5
Electric motor type Permanent Magnet
Number of motors 1
Battery capacity 77.00 kWh
Energy consumption 16.3 kWh/100km
Electric range 534 km
0-100 km/h 6.8 sec
Battery warranty 8 years / 160,000 km
Price From $54,560 - $62,700
Safety Rating
Byron Mathioudakis

Contributing Journalist

Byron Mathioudakis connected with cars right from the start. His earliest memory is a dream of him driving an Austin A30. Soon after, Byron fell in love with movies watching Duel (1971) where a Valiant sedan takes on a murderous Peterbilt truck. Meanwhile, at Tottenham Primary, teacher Mr Chitty prised opened his world with Wheels magazines, later leading him to perform a one-person musical about the then-new Ford XD Falcon. Everyone thought he was strange. Eager to keep his car passion separate from work, he graduated from Advertising at RMIT, but wasn’t happy in that industry, so did the ‘90s Gen X thing of back-packing, with stints in hospitality, exploring his love of music working in a record store, tending bar, acting, dancing, modelling and even being a singing telegram, thankfully in faraway Canada. His eventual YouTube debut happened as an extra in a Violetine video of that era, You Know. Anyway, by 28, Byron realised he wanted to write about cars and nothing else, and on the eve of his 30th, landed a job at John Mellor’s Australian Automotive Business, a predecessor to GoAuto, where he still feels he belongs after four decades, breaking through with an unsolicited road test of his mother’s Peugeot 306. Going freelance in 1999, he worked at the long-defunct eauto.com.au (it’s still on Wayback Machine), then picked up a gig at Wheels magazine, citing 11 years of Car of the Year judging as a life-changing employment experience. Among scores of amazing people, it was there he became great friends with Peter Robinson, the editor of that first car magazine he devoured back in ’77. Do meet your heroes. In 2020, Byron started at CarsGuide, where he is a Contributing Journalist to this day. Other regular media outlets he writes for include the RAC WA and Australian Plumbing Industry Magazine. Note: though Byron has many old cars he loves, he has never owned an Austin A30, Valiant, XD Falcon or Peugeot 306. To paraphrase Bjork, to do so may break the charm. You can find Byron on LinkedIn. Education Associate Diploma in Advertising, RMIT | 1987-1990 Awards 2024 Newspress Australia Road Tester of the Year Featured Publications GoAuto | 1997-2022 Wheels | 2009-2021 CarsGuide | 2020-present RAC WA Australian Plumbing Industry Magazine
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