Cupra Tavascan

Some pics along with a few of the born

They were a rare sight up until a week ago but there were 5 or 6 in my dealership today ready to go. My insurer didn't have them on system until today I had to jump through a lot of hoops yesterday

Thanks Gumbo.

Looks very well in that colour. I like the illuminated logo also. Best of luck and many happy days of driving with it. 👍️

Looking well in those photos so I'd say it looks great in the flesh.

Definitely curious to see these in person, I really like the Enyaq but not a fan of the coupe or ID.5.

I'm not a fan of front light bars but I like the way this one is split up. I also like that they went with a fairly normal designs in the headlight area as some manufacturers are moving to the bare minimum LED, I think a traditional headlight adds a lot to the design so it's interesting to see them style around it.

That light up badge in the front is really slick looking.

And a terrific price 😃

Yep enjoying it a lot. I love the looks, and so do many other people. They really nailed design in my opinion.

Have 1000kms on it already in a week and a half. Some of that was just going for a spin to get used to it.

It's very like the born to drive to be honest, so much is the same. Same drivers display, same steering wheel so behind the wheel.is very familiar.

I have an individual mode set up in the cupramode for steering and power and the most comfortable suspension setting for every day driving which is what I have found myself using. Hard suspension setting on the 21 inch wheels isn't great unless the road is perfectly smooth. It's defo more comfortable over bad surfaces than the born in softer suspension modes.

Not much I don't like, speed warning is a bit annoying but i turn that off at start of every drive it's beside lane assist in the menu which also gets turned off.

I like some of the features that my born doesn't have, but are probably available on the born also now. Heads up display is brilliant, panoramic roof especially on sunny day like today, screen is better and more responsive.

The interior and exterior lighting is very impressive. I'll stick a few photos at end. Efficiency seems to be almost identical to the born which surprised me so with the 30% bigger battery range should be 30% more too. Got 400kms out of my first charge and 450 on my 2nd charge. 500 possibly within reach in certain conditions.

Lovely car- well done! and enjoy it. The speed limit alarm comes on for me in the Born but I can hardly hear it.............could be of course that I'm half deaf. I find the infotainment system a big upgrade to what I was used to in the older Born. Only problem I have at the minute is on startup I'd like the seat heater to be off so that I can set it myself to whatever is comfortable at the time with the weather. No matter what I do within the heater settings it seems it won't budge from 1 dot heat setting on startup.

Getting a ceramic coating done, collecting tomorrow

Yeah ill pick up some of that

Yep getting on great, love it so far. Looks fantastic in my opinion, lots of people still asking about it when they see it and admiring it. Almost not looking forward to the summer as I won't see the fancy interior lighting much for a few months! But panoramic roof should flood nice natural light in on bright days.

Best compliment i can give it as regards driving is that it's just a more comfortable version of my Born thanks to the DCC which I have set in an individual mode most comfortable suspension setting for most of my driving. So easy to switch in and out of modes too, serious power when you put it in cupra mode.

I'm only charging to 80% now which lasts me a week so I'm not trying for that 500 range or anything. I'm not range obsessed as I don't need it and don't mind a short stop when I do.

I'm seeing 15/16 at the end of some journeys if I have heating off, yesterday was 13 degrees out and I just use heated seats and steering. At that kind of consumption its in the 500 ballpark but that's just tipping around suburbs and a small bit of dual carriageway. I'd guess 100kmph, warm day, heat off it will push 500kms range.

A month in now and I've still not seen another on the road and I live close to my dealer I would expect they've sold some locally, I haven't see a Terramar yet either.

Etron probably still the more comfortable car but i haven't been in one since so hard to back to back test them and say for sure. Materials in etron when you tap on them definitely still feel more premium. You can definitely tell its in a different price segment.

However the one bit you touch all the time is nicer feel in cupra, the steering wheel. Which is heated, wasn't in the Audi.

But it also feels much heavier and cupra is more lively to drive. No noticeable difference in speed when you put the boot down in either, they're both in the 6 to 7 second range to 100kmh, mid range punch close enough too. But then again, so is the 200bhp born so it shows how important weight is.

However, for more or less same money I'd have a tavascan over q4 etron, but then again I'd have a well specced enyaq over a q4 too.

The thing with the big etron is despite having a 95kwh battery, it only had the range of a 60kwh smaller car.

Tavascan is so much better specced than the big etron I had, its a top spec tavascan for 52k compared to a standard mid range etron that was 85k new, I'm in no doubt that if I was to spec up like for like the etron would be twice the price as can be seen with a well specced Q6 now. Heads up display, panoramic roof, heated steering, beautiful interior ambient lights, double boot floor, blind spot, matrix LED lights all on the well specced tavascan which I could afford to buy on top of the 43k base price, not a hope I could do it on a full fat etron. Even a q4 etron is up around 70k for the same spec, have a look at the ones for sale used, nobody has been speccing them up to those levels.

I just couldn't see myself staying in reasonably new Audis with the price of them.