150 hp is apparently Cupra enough
You may have already forgotten about it, but the Cupra Ateca still exists. The sporty SUV gets new engines, where the power is simply halved if desired. Well the ‘looks’, not the speed, so.
The Cupra Ateca appeared in 2018 and was then the first car with ‘Cupra’ as a brand name. A somewhat remarkable choice to launch such a completely new brand with an existing SUV model from Seat, because the Cupra Ateca is after all just a Seat Ateca with different logos. And another engine, we have added so far, because the Cupra Ateca did have a 300 hp 2.0 TSI in the nose.
That is different from now on, because Cupra adds the well-known 1.5 TSI with 150 hp and a 2.0 TSI with 190 hp to the range. Both engines are linked to a seven-speed DSG as standard and the stronger of the two – the one with 190 hp – has 4Drive four-wheel drive.
On the outside, the new engines also make an important difference, because unlike the 300-hp version, it has no visible exhausts. That means that four large chutes will disappear. They make way for a heavy, diffuser-like part that tries to match the look of those exhausts in plastic. The Cupra Ateca therefore also looks quite thick in this form.
Anyone who still doubts whether Cupra will actually replace Seat as a car brand in all parts of the market is being rudely confronted by this news. The aim of this step is of course to make the Cupra Ateca more accessible and therefore more popular. Whether that will be the case in the Netherlands remains to be seen, because the Cupra Ateca is currently not on the Dutch price lists at all. We’ll check it out for you.
Cupra started with the launch of the brand with pure petrol models in our country, only to announce later that only electrified cars would come to the Netherlands. Later that ‘belief’ was released again, because the Formentor has also been available with the 1.5 TSI, and that variant has just been announced for the Leon.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl