2014 Audi S3, Golf R and Leon Cupra Developing Turbo Problems
4 Aug 2014, 11:54 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / As cool as squeezing lots of power from a small engine is, it comes with reliability problems. The injectors, the turbo and the cylinders themselves are all pushed harder than in a naturally aspirat...
JE Design’s SEAT Leon Cupra Widebody Kit Impersonates Leon Cup Racer
8 Jul 2014, 07:59 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / For all those who look at the new SEAT Leon Cupra and think this needs a look to match its Nurburgring-ripping performance, JE Design comes with a solution, which is offered in the form of a widebod...
Which Is the Fastest, the Golf R or the Leon Cupra 280?
5 Jul 2014, 11:20 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Here’s a question that’s been bugging people for a few months now: If I have somewhere over €30,000 to spend on a hot hatch, do I go for the new generation of legendary Golf R or sa...
SEAT to Renault: We Can Beat the Megane RS 275 Trophy-R
17 Jun 2014, 08:22 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Yesterday, French carmaker Renault announced its brand new and seriously impressive Megane RS 275 Trophy-R has managed to lap the Nurburgring in a record-breaking 7 minutes 54.36 seconds. The pre...
Stupid: SEAT Leon Cupra Race Car Falls During Crane Lift
11 Jun 2014, 13:13 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / It looks like one of the race teams involved with touring car racing in Mexicocaught a bit of bad luck recently. Actually, it's a lot of bad luck and some incompetence. A brand new race car...
New SEAT Leon Cupra Tuned to 350 HP by JE Design
27 May 2014, 08:37 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The SEAT Leon Cupra is currently the fastest sports hatch to power its front wheels around the Nurburgring track in Germany. With a time of 7 minutes and 58 seconds, this 280 hp car is easily the mo...
New SEAT Leon Cupra Wrapped in Matte Neon Yellow and Orange
9 May 2014, 08:55 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Currently the fastest FWD production car ever to go round the Nurburgring, the new SEAT Leon Cupra is perhaps the coolest car ever to be made by the Spanish. With LED headlights and a 2-liter turbo ...
BMW M235i Drag Races Seat Leon Cupra
23 Apr 2014, 12:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The guys from Evo recently started a new segment on their Youtube channel where they simply drag race cars that are supposed to be rather similar, within the same segment or, at least have similar a...
Leon Cupra Problems: Golf GTI Club Sport Being Put on Large LSD Dose
31 Mar 2014, 09:13 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Even though they use very similar engines, there's a huge power deficit between the 7th-generation VW Golf GTI and its kin from SEAT, the new Leon Cupra. On paper, 50 hp splits the GTI with Per...
New Leon Cupra Stars in First Commercial
20 Mar 2014, 14:26 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Usually when SEAT makes commercials, they're generic and simply try and show off some clever features, but the first ad featuring the third generation Leon Cupra is a little different. We are, ...
SEAT Leon Cupra 280 Sets New Nurburgring Front-Wheel Drive Record
3 Mar 2014, 13:11 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / All-out, banzai lap of the Nurburgring are not only cool to watch, but also mean big business for the automotive scene, starved for new marketing tools. Record laps of the famous Green Hell represen...
SEAT Leon Cupra 280 HP: Acceleration and Top Speed Tests
21 Feb 2014, 12:26 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / With all the headlines being greedily sucked up by the A45 AMG and Audi S3 right now, it's all to easy to ignore the brand new SEAT Leon Cupra. However, doing that would be a terrible mistake. ...
2014 SEAT Leon ST Cupra Rendered as Debut Looms
13 Feb 2014, 10:15 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / About a month ago, the Spanish patient came out of its long coma and showed the world it had a pulse. 265 and 280 PS versions of the brand new SEAT Leon Cupra came out, a car that's been hotly ...
SEAT Reveals New Leon Cupra With 265 or 280 HP
8 Jan 2014, 08:53 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / If you're a hot hatch fan that lovers VW's TSI turbos and slick DSG gearboxes, but think the Golf GTI is just not exciting enough to look at or drive, we've got big news for you. Span...
Spyshots: SEAT Leon ST Cupra, the High-Performance Estate
18 Dec 2013, 16:16 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen has already turned the MQB platform into three hot hatches, the GTI, GTD and R. Skoda also has lots of Octavia vRS models that go fast. But when you ask Spanish carmaker SEAT where theirs...
Spyshots: SEAT Leon ST Cupra
4 Dec 2013, 12:46 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / A quick check of SEAT's press releases will reveal they describe the new Leon ST estate model as the best thing since sportscars: "demonstrates that thrilling sporting character and except...
Spy Video: 2014 SEAT Leon Cupra with 260 HP
2 Oct 2013, 09:11 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The third generation SEAT Leon is a gamble for both Volkswagen and SEAT, a gamble that they can keep the Spanish carmaker alive amongst a shrinking market. We think their gamble is about to pay off,...
Spyshots: 2014 SEAT Leon Cupra Detailed
24 Sep 2013, 14:36 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In 2006, SEAT launched their faster car ever, the Leon Cupra with 240 PS that could accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in no less than 6.4 seconds. A few years after that, they went one better with the C...
This Crazy SEAT Leon ST Cupra Has a Large Diffuser
21 Aug 2013, 11:58 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / If you're into hot hatches like we are, you probably understood what yesterday's big reveal of the new Golf R means for the business. The fact that it uses an S3 engine with the exact same...
SEAT Mulling Leon Cupra R with 300 HP
1 Aug 2013, 08:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen Group is clearly broadening its range of performance models, as new suspension technology and efficient engines mean Golf GTIs can be as comfortable as any other car. The Germans have ...