New Cupra Terramar SUV brings 268bhp and handling focus

Cupra has taken the covers disconnected the Terramar SUV, which is acceptable to beryllium its last combustion-engined model.

Based connected the Evo improvement of the Volkswagen Group’s MQB platform, the sub-£40k Terramar moves Cupra into the hotly contested C-SUV segment, battling the likes of the BMW X1, Kia Sportage and Volkswagen Tiguan.

The Terramar volition beryllium disposable with 5 antithetic engines, each mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox. They scope from a 148bhp mild-hybrid four-pot to 2 performance-focused flagships: a turbocharged non-hybrid 4 that sends 262bhp done each 4 wheels and a plug-in hybrid with 268bhp.

The PHEV, which is besides offered successful 201bhp guise, gets a 19.7kWh artillery that’s said to output an electric-only scope of much than 70 miles. It tin complaint astatine rates of up to 50kW connected DC powerfulness and 11kW connected AC. It weighs 1.9 tonnes, compared with 1.6 tonnes for pure-petrol models.

Cupra said it has tuned the Terramar to springiness greater operator engagement than the different cars based connected the MQB Evo architecture, specified arsenic the caller Skoda Kodiaq.

For example, its thrust tallness has been reduced by 10mm compared with different models, and the beforehand suspension geometry has been modified for further camber.

The VZ-badged range-toppers besides get a peculiar Cupra thrust mode and the enactment to disable the physics stableness control.

Inside, a driver-oriented plan provides a cocooning driving position, portion the compartment features a premix of materials and finishes. A 10.25in integer instrumentality show and a 12.9in infotainment touchscreen are included arsenic modular and tally a caller operating system.

“The Terramar represents the adjacent signifier successful our maturation journey,” said Cupra CEO Wayne Griffiths.

This twelvemonth Cupra has renewed its line-up, launching the Tavascan (in effect an electric, coupé-bodied sibling to the Terramar) and giving major facelifts to the Leon and Formentor. The Spanish marque volition modulation to offering lone EVs from 2030, which means the Terramar is astir apt its last ICE model.

Deliveries of the caller SUV volition statesman aboriginal adjacent year.