IT is really quite surprising what some copper was highlighted and good soft leather bucket seats can do for a car, and the feeling of goodness offers it to your driver. Brand-New, Petrol-Powered Cupra Terramar is such a “good feeling” and, while not at all cheap (£ 50k for my test version), it is a really delicious atmosphere type type types that are usually found in more expensive machinery-Grander Mercedes-Benz and, although I am carrying here, which I am the last. As the motoring clinch is, Cupra Terramar, in its plusher versions, is a good place.
Or maybe I’m easily foolish. Some standard Woakeswagen group components below delicious accoutrements lie, mostly shared with Audi Q3 and, most familiarly, VW Tiguan (the company’s best vendor in Europe, in the whole of Europe, but Skoda Kodiak, also another outstanding offering.
So nothing is wrong with it, of course, and almost everything in the new car market is related to something else in the range of something and some groups, but you just have to know that it is an upmarket version of some very close contestants that do not look very glamorous.
If you are still uncertain about what a cupra is, think it as a radical, its “parents” brand seat more high styling version of the brand seat, which VW has now owned for a few decades and never knows what to do (although cars have sold quite well). “Terramer” is a city in Catalonia, by the way, the seat/Kapra is not away from the headquarters, although the vehicle is gathered in Hungary. This is globalization for you.
Anyway, they have managed to lift Termar with a generic SUV “crossover” look with just a few, yes, in fact, copper 20-inch alloy wheels, strikeing aggressive front-end styles, enlightened bashing and some micro-paint jobs-a kind of purple.
Imagination
Cupra Terramar 2.0tsi vz2
price: £ 50,380 (as tested. Prices for the range starts at £ 37,290)
Engine capacity: 2.0L Petrol, 4-Silai, 7SP Auto
Power output (ps): 265
Top speed (mph): 151
0 to 60 (second): 5.9
Fuel economy (mpg): 32.1
CO2 Emission (WLTP, G/KM): 193
Best of all, it goes very well, as it should be given that it shares an engine and all-wheel drive system with golf GTI and, as it happens, equally impressive Skoda Kodiak VRS. The handling is confident as the interior and equally entertaining of the Terramer, together with the relatively good fuel economy. Keep your legs down and no lack of performance is available, and it is best left in “sport” mode.
For devices, the good news is that Terramemer does not work so well on various VW group products a few years ago on “haptic” touch controls. The 12.9in Central Touchscreen Plus for the dash is one, as well as a “head up” display. The Sennheiser Stereo (optional at £ 420) is the premium (for the ear of my cloth), and the steering-wheel control is now very easy to use and effective (it seems for the car to the engineer; it is difficult to get a balance of sensitivity and accountability).
Therefore, like its ropyer brothers and sisters, VW Tayron and Kodiaq VRS (best best for large families), Terrammer is highly preferred. It is also against some excellent opposition outside the VW group – Volvo XC40 and DS 7 Crossback – but it makes a good case for itself.
For those who can have off-road parking and are the company’s car users, a plug-in hybrid option with a small petrol unit and a light hybrid “base” model. The electric version of this Cupra is sad. In fact, it is called the last cupra launched with an internal combustion engine, and is a suitable final storm.
