Seat Is Cooking Up A 335bhp Leon ST Cupra R
There may only be 24 Leon Cupra Rs coming to the UK, but if you miss out on one of those, don’t panic. Seat has another Cupra development up its sleeve, and it concerns the ‘ST’ estate version of the Leon.
Auto Express reports that Seat sales and marketing chief Wayne Griffiths is currently driving around in a prototype Leon Cupra ST that’s running 335bhp. It has an ABT exhaust, 20-inch wheels plus - like the incoming Cupra R - a load of copper accents, and Seat engineers are said to be “looking to roll them [the modifications] out to customers in due course.”
The more potent guise would be available only for the four-wheel drive, DSG-equipped Leon ST, since it doesn’t need any additional changes to cope with the extra poke. We prefer the front-wheel drive Cupra, but we’re certainly up for trying a faster, louder version of of the Cupra ‘4Drive’.
It should be here at some point next year.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Seat Leon ST Cupra R
It’s not Seat Leon Cupra ST Cupra R
If only I could cheaply import one… :(
What the heck have you been smoking Matt Robinson?
“We prefer the front-wheel drive Cupra, but we’re certainly up for trying a faster, louder version of of the Cupra ‘4Drive’.”
…. WHAT? Who the heck prefers FWD over 4WD?!
The Civic Type-R would like to have a word with you…..
Me. It’s lighter and more chuckable. 4WD ain’t RWD
I’d go for fwd. Loads of reasons really.
because it is not the thorsen all-wheel- drive. It’s the useless HALDEX electronic one which adds weight and it is really slow
I like it. Is a SW <3
I like it.