Cupra Reviews

Cupra Tavascan VZ 2025 review: snapshot

By Byron Mathioudakis · 30 Mar 2025

Available in two grades from launch, the intriguing Cupra Tavascan comes in base Endurance and a sporty VZ flagship.

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Cupra Tavascan Endurance 2025 review: snapshot

By Byron Mathioudakis · 28 Mar 2025

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

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Cupra Tavascan 2025 review - Australian first drive

By Byron Mathioudakis · 26 Mar 2025

With the Cupra Tavascan, the fledgling VW Group brand really steps up as a Tesla Model Y alternative. Designed in Spain, underpinned by German engineering and sourced from China for sharper pricing, the medium-sized EV SUV promises standout styling, sporty dynamics and stirring performance, within a comfortable and sophisticated family friendly package. Does it deliver? The answer may shock you.

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Cupra Formentor 2025 review: VZe Tribe Edition

By Emily Agar · 25 Dec 2024

The most popular model in the Cupra stable gets another plug-in hybrid variant but this time with the snazzy features of its top petrol grade. Is it a model we need?

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Cupra Tavascan 2025 review - International first drive

By Tom White · 10 Oct 2024

VW ID.4 and Skoda Enyaq look too bland for you? Meet Cupra's slightly bonkers alternative.

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Cupra Ateca 2025 review: V - Australian first drive

By Laura Berry · 08 Oct 2024

Cupra isn't a brand many people know and the Ateca is a model that even fewer have heard of, but you could think of the Ateca V as a Volkswagen Tiguan only a bit smaller, cheaper and angrier... because that's what it is.

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Cupra Terramar 2025 review - International first drive

By Tom White · 30 Sep 2024

Cupra's unlikely success story looks set to continue with its first mid-size SUV - but what is it that sets the Terramar apart in a crowded field?

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Cupra Leon 2023 review: VZe

By Byron Mathioudakis · 25 Jun 2023

VW Group seems to occupy every niche, as the sporty plug-in hybrid EV Cupra Leon VZe demonstrates. Based on the Golf GTE but with a totally different look and feel, the Mazda3-sized, Spanish-made Leon VZe combines an electric motor and a small turbo-petrol engine for limited pure-EV driving around town, or stirring performance out on the open road. But it's expensive and ergonomically flawed.

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Cupra Born 2023 review

By Tom White · 04 May 2023

This little hatch wants to offer performance range and value, can it really do it all?

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Cupra Born 2023 review: track test

By Byron Mathioudakis · 20 Dec 2022

The Cupra Born is the first affordable VW Group electric vehicle in Australia, giving the Spanish brand a big leg up, while providing strong competition against other EVs with value pricing and 500km-plus range availability. Uniquely, the Born is also billed as our first EV hot-hatch, with performance and handling to match. It might be the most compelling VW Group product in years.

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