While the GTI is great, there’s a limit to how much power can reasonably be handled by the front wheels. One of the great advantages of the Golf R platform and its 4Motion system, is that all-wheel-drive allows the VW Group to push power levels higher and higher and SEAT wants to take advantage of that.
Fast becoming the Group’s sensibly-priced skunkworks, SEAT is reportedly working on a 335 hp Leon Cupra R. Better yet, Wayne Griffiths, the brand’s marketing boss is reportedly driving one around.
The car is still just a prototype, but the ease of its production might just make it too attractive not to make. With an all-wheel-drive system that can pretty easily handle more power and an engine that seems ever capable of churning out more horses, the Leon Cupra R could be made on the cheap.
Speaking to Auto Express, Griffiths said that there is a dearth of cool, fast cars on the road that this car, currently specced in flat black with copper accents, could take advantage of.
“[When] people see it in the street [they] jump all over it,” said Griffiths.
Although this is still a ways away from production, speculation has formed around whether or not the Leon Cupra R could be the car to launch Cupra as its own sub-brand, like Audi Sport. The “Cupra Line” would produce performance parts for everything from the Ibiza to the Ateca.
[source: Auto Express]
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