New 2021 Cupra Born teased in official spy shots

Cupra has revealed a sequence of official spy pictures of its very first thoroughly-electrical car: the Cupra Born, which will be revealed in final output kind in the coming weeks. 

These new pictures of the final car showcase the output design enterprise some final winter season tests, just before it helps make its full debut. 

Cupra states its engineers have racked up far more than 19,000 miles throughout the Born’s chilly weather conditions development programme, at temperatures as minimal as -30°C, with most of the checks built to tension the boundaries of the car’s adaptive dampers and chassis management methods.

Preserve for a established of output-helpful alloy wheels and a new badge, the Cupra Born looks around equivalent to the SEAT El-Born thought from the 2019 Geneva Motor Show. It shares the very same short bonnet, fared-in radiator grille, significant quarter gentle home windows and tailgate spoiler.

It must also line-up with the anticipations established out late past calendar year, when the El-Born was previewed putting on Cupra badges. The output-completely ready Born EV will also function a array of sporty styling cues, this sort of a decreased journey-top, twenty-inch alloy wheels, intense front and rear bumpers, finned facet skirts and a pair figure-hugging bucket seats.

Chassis and powertrain

The Cupra Born is primarily based on the very same MEB underpinnings as the Volkswagen ID.3, with an electrical motor powering the rear axles. 

Cupra states the Born will go from 0–31mph in two.9 seconds, but the rest of the car’s functionality specs are yet to be confirmed. Back again when SEAT was managing the venture, though, the Born was thanks to receive a 201bhp electrical motor, which would give the EV a 0–62mph time of 7.5 seconds.

A battery pack with a nominal ability of 82kWh indicates that a array of up to 310 miles less than WLTP must be possible. The ID.3’s lesser 62kWh nominal battery pack will be offered on lower array versions of the Born, delivering around 260 miles on a full cost. 

With the MEB platform comes 100kW DC charging, meaning the hatchback can get better an 80 per cent cost in around 47 minutes or get on 161 miles of array in just 30 minutes.

Interior and equipment

Like all of the Volkswagen Group’s MEB cars, the Cupra Born has a very long wheelbase relative to its over-all size, which must allow it to supply the inside house of a car from the class earlier mentioned. As this sort of, boot house must be on par with the SEAT Leon, but there must be far more legroom for rear seat travellers.

The Cupra Born’s cabin is similar to the ID.3’s with a digital instrument binnacle, a floating 10-inch infotainment screen and touch-delicate controls for the car’s heating and ventilation process. It will also function a pair of racy bucket seats and a sporty Alcantara-trimmed steering wheel.

Cupra has also confirmed the Born will function the ID.3’s new augmented truth head-up screen, in addition smartphone connectivity by means of the car’s infotainment process and an integrated warmth-pump process that does not attract strength from the car’s battery pack to warm the cabin. 

Pricing and positioning

Given the Cupra Born’s upmarket branding, we count on it will stray from the Volkswagen ID.3’s pricing technique. 

Alternatively than costing “the equivalent of a perfectly-specced diesel Golf” – the line often touted by VW executives just before the rollout of the now expansive ID.3 line-up, selling prices will possible be comparable to the current-generation Cupra Leon or Mk8 Volkswagen Golf GTI with a lesser selection of increased-spec designs to decide on from, commencing from around £34,000.

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