ABT’s 370hp Leon Cupra looks nice, but it’s not cheap

The Seat Leon Cupra The earlier technology was a powerful success. It had many gross sales in Spain, but additionally in international locations like Germany. And it’s that the compact Spanish sports activities automobile supplied a really excessive efficiency that was mixed with good consolation on a day-to-day foundation, with out being an excessively costly product.

As you understand, Cupra left Seat apart and was born as a model. Subsequently, now we’ve got the Cupra León, primarily based on the fourth technology of the Seat Leon. We’ll get our fingers on the brand new scorching hatch in just a few weeks, but within the meantime let’s check out this preparation supplied by the ABT specialist.

We recall that the five-door Cupra León gives a most energy of 300 hp, in addition to 400 Nm of torque. Within the case of this compact physique, the efficiency of the 2.zero TSI engine it’s all the time despatched to the entrance finish. In the meantime, within the household physique we are able to go for a 4Drive model, that’s, four-wheel drive, giving as much as 310 hp and the identical torque of 400 Nm.

ABT Sportsline all the time considers that all the pieces might be improved and, due to this fact, gives us a better efficiency package. Particularly, they elevate the ability to 360 hp within the case of the five-door, whereas within the Cupra León ST (household) reaches 370 hp. Whatever the bodywork, engine torque rises to 450 Nm.

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In addition they provide us some adjustments to the chassis. Amongst them, stands out a firmer, height-lowering suspension of the physique by 30 millimeters, and to generate a better visible change they’ve 20-inch ABT Sport GR wheels obtainable in matte black or shiny black.

In case you are occupied with these modifications, I’m sorry to inform you that the detrimental half is their worth. ABT feedback that the worth of this package deal is as much as 5,990 euros, to which should be added the set up prices and approvals. Properly, you could have a extra unique and higher-performance Cupra León, but in trade for a big sum of cash …