00:00a two liter turbocharged engine seven speed double clutch transmission all wheel drive and 300
00:07horsepower under the bonnet this is not skoda lovers wet dream karok vrs this is the cupra teca
00:37the skoda karok connection is not accidental cupra ateca has identical dimensions the only difference
00:44between the karok and the ateca are the simply clever solutions or rather lack thereof in case
00:49of the spanish brand if you don't follow automotive news cupra is sat's former sport division an
00:55abbreviation for cup racing since 2018 cupra is a performance oriented sap brand soon to be a
01:01separate brand with its own vin this will allow sell to breathe easy with the higher emitting cars
01:07out of its co2 average at the same time clients looking for more auto emulsion than you get from
01:12a 1.5 tsi motor have a brand to turn to for many years i struggled to understand why the
01:20volkswagen
01:21group is keeping the sad brand alive i understand that the good people of spain having to choose
01:28between sat skoda and vw will likely go for their national brand however since 2012 when sat started
01:35looking like a cross between skoda and vw i really couldn't see the point for a third brand in the
01:42same
01:42segment it was the fourth gen leon i reviewed last year that opened my eyes possibly after switching to
01:50the mqb platform seat needed time to reimagine itself the cupra formentor is clearly different
01:56from vw's sporty models however the ateca was designed earlier this is just a facelift of a car
02:03that is basically a skoda carog one could argue about the looks or about the simply clever options
02:09which skoda will sell you at an eye-watering premium but if i had to choose a base spec compact
02:15crossover i'd go with whoever offers a better discount ateca by seat is a poorly equipped take
02:21on the mark one vw tiguan and the carog with the sliding rear bench is almost the first gen tiguan
02:29and if skoda's 2019 announcements about the carog vrs materialized there would be no reason for the cupra
02:36ateca to exist but skoda dropped the carog vrs and if you want a 300 horsepower compact crossover
02:43a teca is what you get 300 horsepower and 400 millimeters of torque are very respectable numbers
02:54cupra is supposed to do 0 to 100 kilometers per hour sprint in 4.9 seconds i got five and
03:00a half without
03:01launch control and on a wet surface the cupra teca needs just three and a half seconds from 80 to
03:06120
03:07kilometers per hour fuel economy is reasonable at eight and a half nine liters per 100 kilometers
03:13combined the manufacturer says it should use even more fuel so i'm not complaining if i were to
03:20complain about something it would be a complete lack of drama behind the wheel the cupra teca is an
03:27ordinary car that someone happened to stuff a more powerful engine in like the formenter also the ateca is
03:33very easy to drive very fast it doesn't demand a lot from the driver peak torque is reached at just
03:402000 rpm so most of what the car has to offer is accessible in city conditions assuming you're not
03:47breaking any speed limits is that a good thing or a bad thing well very often car makers try to
03:54sell us
03:55cars that offer mind-blowing performance but in order to have one's mind blown one needs to visit truck
04:01or hope that the road ahead is empty and no wild animals or police officers with radar guns are going
04:08to
04:08jump in front of the car from this perspective the cupra attack is an interesting proposition
04:14and how is the attack different from the formenter there are just 10 horsepower and several centimeters
04:20between the two the formenter is slightly longer wider it has longer wheelbase but it is lower and it
04:25has a smaller boot than the attack acceleration is identical driving the formenter i felt it's not a
04:31particularly wild car and the attack is even easier also the attack has less sophisticated suspension
04:38than the formenter on the same roads the formenter felt glued to the road whereas on some bumps the
04:44attack a rear suspension was working over time there are also those knocks from the rear well known to
04:50owners of vw cars with dcc the steering is light regardless of what driving mode you're in the sound
04:57well at least the attack doesn't pretend to be a v8 like the formenter however without an
05:04optional exhaust don't expect too much visibility is okay the seats are very comfortable these are
05:11optional bucket seats by the way but they're only cold bucket seats don't get me wrong there are seats
05:18out there with much less lateral support but for sporty seats these are average at best beside the normal
05:25sport and cupra modes there are also individual settings as well as a winter and off-road mode
05:31on my diagonal approach test i feel the attack coped best in normal mode there was too much struggle
05:38in the off-road mode and in winter mode i had to back down
05:53even cupra atteka's cockpit is very toned down in the formenter there are additional buttons on the
05:58steering wheel which add some drama here the only difference between a seat and a cupra is the cupra
06:03badge on the steering wheel the driver's display is like in any vw car even if the graphics are slightly
06:09different same thing with the central display sat divides the screen into three main sections and
06:16then there are shortcut icons at the bottom of the screen the attack kept physical ac and basic car
06:23function controls although esp settings have to be accessed via the on-screen menu
06:32however the drive mode selector remained on a rotary dial which in my opinion is a better
06:37choice than the button in the formenter many a time i ended up driving in the wrong mode because i
06:43pressed the switch one time too many or too little and i didn't notice the tiny icon on the display
06:49here i can feel what i'm doing
06:54there is a place for your phone cup holders average size glove box small storage under the armrest but the
07:01door pockets are very big kia should take notes for the sorento and hyundai for the santa fe in the
07:08back there is a lot of leg room and headroom in the middle there are air vents but no third
07:12zone climate
07:12control under the vents are two usb-c ports door pockets will accommodate bottles there are also cup
07:20holders in the armrest behind which is a ski hatch
07:28the 485 liter boot has a regular shape there are shopping bag hooks as well as release handles for
07:34the rear seats double floor is an option not specified in this test car so with seats down there is
07:41a hump to
07:41get over under the floor is an optional beats audio system subwoofer as well as a repair kit there is
07:51also
07:51some additional storage in these styrofoam inserts price of the cupra teca start at 46 000 euro with
07:59options this test car costs a ridiculous 54 000 euro which is more than the cupra formentor i reviewed
08:07recently for this kind of money i'll have the formentor thank you and how do you like the cupra teca
08:15would you choose it over the formentor or maybe there's another hot crossover on your radar let me
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