For American debut
Cupra announces that it is expanding to the United States and has some striking news: it is entering the market there with a fully electric Cupra Formentor and a new, as yet unnamed, larger electric SUV.
The Cupra Formentor, the first model that was sold purely and solely as a Cupra, is now only known with at most partially electric drive. In the Netherlands it is only available as a plug-in, elsewhere the powerful VZ5 equipped with a five-cylinder has also been sold and we also knew it here with a 310 hp 2.0 TSI. In any case, there was never any question of purely electric propulsion, but now Cupra is suddenly calling it a fully electric Formentor. At the end of this decade, the Spanish brand will expand to the United States and there it will release an as yet unspecified electric SUV to be built in North America and an electric Formentor.
It seems to us that the current Cupra Formentor will become fully electric and that would not be logical given its basis. Since it is also about something that is many years in the future, it is more logical that it concerns a second generation of the Formentor, which is only electric. We can imagine that it will be somewhat in the same waters as the Tavascan, but perhaps the next Formentor will be a slightly different story than the current one, not only in terms of propulsion.
Well, for now at least that’s still in the future. Closer is the unveiling of more well-known Cupra models. We can expect the unveiling of the refreshed Cupra Leon and also the facelifted current Formentor sometime in the coming weeks. The full unveiling of the Cupra Tavascan and the Terramar is also planned for this year.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl