I fell in love with this car as soon as I looked into it properly. I had seen a couple of pictures that caught my eye so I went to a dealership and spent 45 minutes going through the car and that was it. Now I just need to get one.
this puppy did 0-60 in 4.31 on carwow - and he only tried once in not so optimal conditions.. total bargain in my opinion and you'll smoke loads of 330's and c350's for much less money! what a car, thank you Cupra..
Had an Ibiza CUPRA TDI for a number of years. It was a riot as standard, then I started fiddling and it became an absolute animal. 600nm made it such a beast on roll and the handling was amazing for front wheel drive in the 2000s. Love the new spirit of Cupra. I wish we could buy them in South Africa.
Unless there's some big change, you won't see three door hatchbacks anytime soon. Several brands, including VW have publicly stated they were dropping those platform as it wasn't cost effective to produce them.
They don’t do a diesel on the Formentor mate, they also need the car to appeal to a wider audience, hence the 1.5 and hybrids. Some people want the looks but not the running costs
Great review Drew! The rear from the back doors back is just so much better than the Aston DBX. Front kind of looks Urus like. Inside, a bit bland. But what surprised me was the performance figures you quoted.
I'm not a fan of the SUV mania, but this doesn't look too bad . . . And then you said it has proper manual gearboxes. My interest is, indeed, piqued :)
Please correct me if I'm wrong but if you investigate the numbers, the ICE, suspension geometry, etc... I believe this is a slightly higher cupra leon/golf GTI properly disguised 😅
It's the same old shtick VAG has been pulling up for many years. Their marketing department has done wonders convincing people they're buying different products and in some cases, mainly audi, not just a rebadged overpriced VW. Baffles me how people can fall into something so "scam-esque" like.
Plenty of fake stuff on more premium branded cars so i wouldn't get yourself to worried. Look at reviews of vehicle and you will find that everyone says it is a high quality performance product.
Easier getting in and out of, especially important when your 50+ and not quite as slim as you were 20 years ago!. Interiors feel spacious with more head room, large boot capacity, generally a better view of the road, high spec models have AWD, there's lots of positives!
Shit drivers need to be higher to feel confident. News flash - doesn't help. Lack of core strength so can't get in and out. Lack of core strength so can't put the kid in the car seat. So, basically, being a shit human being is a prerequisite. I never let SUV/cross overs/ mokka /juke in front of me, ever, cos I know they'll be shit drivers. Cos if they cared about driving, they'd buy a car
They are launching a sub-brand that should be sporty and have decided to pack the first model in this SUVish shape. A three-door hatchback would be a ballsy choice and would draw a lot more attention to the brand, but I guess in the years to come we won’t see any three-door hatchbacks for the masses.
@@deputydd4364 I was staring at it the whole video trying to figure it out lol. I build my own and always pay attention to what everyone is wearing haha.
I'm usually super obsessed with symmetry - things like exhausts on one side only, or where there's a rear fog on the right hand side in place of the reverse light really annoy me. I know you've been rocking it for a while Drew (per older videos) but I've always thought wearing two watches is super weird... until now, man I wish I could pull it off that well! What's the one on your left wrist?
Well! if I was trying to promote a vehicle, I would have shown under the bonnet, the instrumentation, the back seats, and inside the boot. What did we get, a film of a vehicle going round several bends, riveting.
It's an Ateca with a roof chop which is fine but nothing particularly interesting. Do you remember the blokes who opened a cornflake cafe in Shoreditch? Cupra is that in car form.
ha ha...well to be fair it was a cereal cafe, huge variety of products from around the world...VW seems to be doing the opposite..the same kit under numerous brands from around the world, dressed up to look a little different but very homogenous
My poorly made point was the same as yours, the cafe and this abomination of branding are doing the same thing. They are taking a variety of common and usually inexpensive products, dolling them up and punting them out to the thoughtless and the insecure. The first Ibiza Cupra had a silly name but was a serious piece of kit for the day. The Formentor is probably not going to sell more widely or better as a Cupra than it would have as a Seat and Seat itself is becoming more two-dimensional.
A 'Performance Sub-Brand', that includes a 148bhp 1.5 and a 200bhp hybrid weighing over 1700kg?? Cynical marketing guff for the easily swayed. Should have just called it a SEAT like the rest of the range, and only given the Cupra name to the actual top spec performance model like they've always done.
Many brands are lowering the standard to apply the performance trim name for the sake of sales. VAG is no different. As long as there are schmucks to be happily parted from their name, they'll keep doing it.
Why is it that car reviewers are so obsessed with the brand value of Cupra? To most of us I'm guessing that it doesn't matter one tiny jot. It's just another model designation like S/RS for Audi or AMG for Mercedes. Personally I really don't care - skip the philosophising completely and spend time reviewing the car not the manufacturer's brand intentions.
Why would you need over 300hp to go to the shop or drive your kids to school? No wonder there are so many accidents every single day when we have a lot of people driving something they just can´t handle.
I like very much the review. When it's my money though , the Alfa Stelvio 280 q4i veloce is just a better car and the price is not that much different. Not to talk about herritage...
You would be correct, but there are people who are into suv's. I've had the oportunity to drive one for a weekend as well as driving the mk gti on track and I can say that the formentor feels a bit heavier with the awd but it is just as capable and fun. The one I drove had the optional brembo brakes and didn't compain for a sec even with 4 people on the car and going at a pretty lively pace.
Strikes me that the 7-speed DSG (the standard VW unit I guess) might be more fuel efficient? And being 2 litre I guess it's not turbo charged where as the smaller engine model might be. Although the smaller engined model is a manual so no matter the difference then I guess... The Raceroom simulator for PC (owned by KW Auto) has had Cupra race models for a while now. "The catchy name CUPRA is not an invented name but stands for "Cup Racing" and thus creates a link with SEAT's successful involvement in motorsport." you learn something new every day 😁
You do understand that this is an mqb Evo derivation. This means 'go look at the golf range' with a different body and duller interior. So, there's the 1.5t, 2.0t dsg, 2.0t AWD dsg...... Etc etc. Whatever the golf is limited to, so is this. This can't be news to you. Internet went batty over golf r with no manual. This is a golf r with a raised seat Leon body.
Since swapping my Honda cr-Z for an SLK250, I don't bloody fit in any other 2 seat roadster, i really don't get the love for a short 0-60 time. Sure the SLK is way faster, but in practice that just means you can't have as much fun, because you are driving illegal speeds so quickly. IDK, but if I were to fit a 1.5 MX5 seems like the dream. And I would take an ep3 civic over a modern 300HP one as well. Unless you can use it as a track car of course than it's cool, but I can't afford two cars. IMO the focus for sporty cars really needs to go back to Colin chapman's vision. Not more power, less weight. Anyone can build a 300HP car that's fast in s straight line and handles well enough, but is it a fun car? Nah. As in this review the formentor is faster than the stelvio, but is it as much fun to drive? 0-60 gets old and isn't useful IRL.
Hate these thumbnails every body is using with their hands held out. Doug demuro has the similar pose on every video. Can it really make people want to view ?
*never thought to ever say this, but the seat/cupra brand is becoming my favorite from the VAG ...*
Henry on the Formentor: 7:55 in th-cam.com/video/2RnGwkWL94I/w-d-xo.html
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Like liking the same ice cream just because it has a different shape. lol
Audi and VW still have it
I know I'm kind of off topic but do anybody know a good site to watch new movies online ?
@Clayton Jad Flixportal :)
I fell in love with this car as soon as I looked into it properly. I had seen a couple of pictures that caught my eye so I went to a dealership and spent 45 minutes going through the car and that was it. Now I just need to get one.
this puppy did 0-60 in 4.31 on carwow - and he only tried once in not so optimal conditions.. total bargain in my opinion and you'll smoke loads of 330's and c350's for much less money! what a car, thank you Cupra..
Way more to a car than 0-60 times though
@@mattpalmer6071 I didn't say there isn't, though...
Had an Ibiza CUPRA TDI for a number of years. It was a riot as standard, then I started fiddling and it became an absolute animal. 600nm made it such a beast on roll and the handling was amazing for front wheel drive in the 2000s. Love the new spirit of Cupra. I wish we could buy them in South Africa.
I don’t really understand why they have 150hp petrol and diesel Formentors under the Cupra brand if Cupra is the ‘performance’ brand.
Unless there's some big change, you won't see three door hatchbacks anytime soon. Several brands, including VW have publicly stated they were dropping those platform as it wasn't cost effective to produce them.
Henry on the Formentor: 7:55 in th-cam.com/video/2RnGwkWL94I/w-d-xo.html
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They don’t do a diesel on the Formentor mate, they also need the car to appeal to a wider audience, hence the 1.5 and hybrids. Some people want the looks but not the running costs
@@Paul-gp3sn Don't know what configurator you're using but on the Irish Cupra site, you can configure a diesel Formentor.
@@henryhealy ah, ok, I’m in the uk and it’s petrol only here. What diesel options are available to you?
The name sounds like a type of cheese, but from the side looks like a baby Lamborghini Urus
The name comes from Cape Formentor in Mallorca, it's a really beautiful place and the road to get there is one of the best in Europe!
Great review Drew! The rear from the back doors back is just so much better than the Aston DBX. Front kind of looks Urus like. Inside, a bit bland. But what surprised me was the performance figures you quoted.
I'm not a fan of the SUV mania, but this doesn't look too bad . . .
And then you said it has proper manual gearboxes. My interest is, indeed, piqued :)
It's the sort of car that's going to plunge in value and then do very well in the second-hand market. Also, nice to see Drew back on review duties.
Residuals on these are above average but I get your point, but then most cars are better value second hand or nearly new
Usually should be like that... but here in Chile the used Formentors VZ from 2021 are only 3 grands below a brand new 2023 one...
Whilst it is a "Road Review" a look at the back seats practicality would have been nice!
I really enjoy your videos Drew
Another nice car we won't get in the USA. Good to see Drew again
Please correct me if I'm wrong but if you investigate the numbers, the ICE, suspension geometry, etc... I believe this is a slightly higher cupra leon/golf GTI properly disguised 😅
Exact dimensions of a focus active estate, coupled with that mega e888.
No wonder it shifts and corners reasonably competently
It's the same old shtick VAG has been pulling up for many years. Their marketing department has done wonders convincing people they're buying different products and in some cases, mainly audi, not just a rebadged overpriced VW. Baffles me how people can fall into something so "scam-esque" like.
10:06 "It starts with the badge in my mind that which begins to suggest that that's what your gonna get" The badge has fake carbon fibre on it!
Plenty of fake stuff on more premium branded cars so i wouldn't get yourself to worried. Look at reviews of vehicle and you will find that everyone says it is a high quality performance product.
All the reviews I've watched praise this car mate doubt you've even seen one let alone driven one
Well impressed with this car and on PCH, you can get it around the £300pcm which is a true bargain.
£350.00 a month with 3 months down on full maintenance package with breakdown cover & road tax included. Ordered my 310 and should be here in October.
Was this with cupra directly mate? 350pcm for the 310?!? Bargain!
@@Bombastic786 No, ordered through the lease company i have always used.
I saw one of these this morning. Much smaller than I was expecting... Still not sure why people want these crossovers though.
Easier getting in and out of, especially important when your 50+ and not quite as slim as you were 20 years ago!. Interiors feel spacious with more head room, large boot capacity, generally a better view of the road, high spec models have AWD, there's lots of positives!
Shit drivers need to be higher to feel confident. News flash - doesn't help.
Lack of core strength so can't get in and out. Lack of core strength so can't put the kid in the car seat.
So, basically, being a shit human being is a prerequisite. I never let SUV/cross overs/ mokka /juke in front of me, ever, cos I know they'll be shit drivers. Cos if they cared about driving, they'd buy a car
@@pigeonpoo1823 🤣
@@patricksheringham5965 Amen to that!
I'm a tall guy so I prefer more head room that often comes with a cross over or suv.
Looks like a junior Lamborghini Urus.
What a cool brand to see around these days!
Awesome review!
They are launching a sub-brand that should be sporty and have decided to pack the first model in this SUVish shape. A three-door hatchback would be a ballsy choice and would draw a lot more attention to the brand, but I guess in the years to come we won’t see any three-door hatchbacks for the masses.
Yeah, everything they’ve launched so far is with a SUV, CUV thing or a hybrid hatchback/estate. Bizarre for a sporty sub brand.
Henry on the Formentor: 7:55 in th-cam.com/video/2RnGwkWL94I/w-d-xo.html
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I love that you can get the Cupra's in flat grey over blue leather. So perverse, I love it.
The badge actually reminded of Transformers.
There is something amicable in the appearance, but I can't get over the "it's a scaled Audi that had monkey love with a Mazda" effect.
Double-take: sub-5 second 0-60. Wow.
Carwow be like : 0-60 in 4.3 seconds!!
Carwow did 0-60 in 4.3 seconds, Son in law has an R8 and Formentor is only 1/2 second behind it 0-60.
What time is it? Check both.
Love the copper accents.
Another nice looking small SUV not available for us in the USA
0:49
You can't unsee that😂
Looks like a mini Urus 🤤
Or Aston Martin DBX😊
Great review great car really growing on me the Seat group are making some great cars.
Is that a custom Seiko mod you’re wearing?
I was about to ask the same! Nice green custom.
@@deputydd4364 I was staring at it the whole video trying to figure it out lol. I build my own and always pay attention to what everyone is wearing haha.
Fantastic looking car 😍
This Formentor seems to have uncle Lambo's DNA...
I love my Formentor man, such a smooth drive and with enough power to put hairs on your chest
This guy makes this SUV look like a Morris Mini
Thanks for barely showing the interior. 🙄
Why do people keep thinking this isn't a SEAT?
It's literally a raised Leon on the mbq Evo platform with aesthetic changes
It's a Leon, it's a Golf, an A3 and an Octavia. Welcome to the VAG universe and the MQB Evo chassis.
@@mudemmeonick yeah I didn't quite get the whole " this is their first vehicle that isn't based on a existing seat model"
Can't wait for the version with the audi 5pot!
For 40k not much that can compete with it when it comes to performance. I like it something different.
Engine is Golf R8/Audi S3 but for much less money.
I want to buy my first electric car, the Cupra Fornicator seems interesting, also considering Toyota bz4x
The badge was super cool but now all I see is a headless stick figure doing the flop 😂😂
Nah that shit is ugly, looks like a gaming logo you find on equipments for nerds (and that's not positive)
To me it looks like a logo for a mouse and keyboard manufacturing logo 😂
@@MR-wh6ji Exactly !
I'm usually super obsessed with symmetry - things like exhausts on one side only, or where there's a rear fog on the right hand side in place of the reverse light really annoy me. I know you've been rocking it for a while Drew (per older videos) but I've always thought wearing two watches is super weird... until now, man I wish I could pull it off that well! What's the one on your left wrist?
It's the one that tells him he's still alive 😀
Well! if I was trying to promote a vehicle, I would have shown under the bonnet, the instrumentation, the back seats, and inside the boot. What did we get, a film of a vehicle going round several bends, riveting.
It's an Ateca with a roof chop which is fine but nothing particularly interesting. Do you remember the blokes who opened a cornflake cafe in Shoreditch? Cupra is that in car form.
ha ha...well to be fair it was a cereal cafe, huge variety of products from around the world...VW seems to be doing the opposite..the same kit under numerous brands from around the world, dressed up to look a little different but very homogenous
My poorly made point was the same as yours, the cafe and this abomination of branding are doing the same thing. They are taking a variety of common and usually inexpensive products, dolling them up and punting them out to the thoughtless and the insecure.
The first Ibiza Cupra had a silly name but was a serious piece of kit for the day. The Formentor is probably not going to sell more widely or better as a Cupra than it would have as a Seat and Seat itself is becoming more two-dimensional.
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If your from a farming background, the Cupra Badge looks like a pair of dagging shears, which is used to clip dirty wool around a sheep's arse. 😂😂
Is this Coming to the USA?
A lot of people like the style but don’t need the ultimate performance ,in the real world how many times can you use all that performance ?.
The back of the Formentor from different angles looks like an Alfa Romeo Stelvio and a new Kia Sportage.
How much is the price please ❤❤❤❤
A 'Performance Sub-Brand', that includes a 148bhp 1.5 and a 200bhp hybrid weighing over 1700kg?? Cynical marketing guff for the easily swayed. Should have just called it a SEAT like the rest of the range, and only given the Cupra name to the actual top spec performance model like they've always done.
Many brands are lowering the standard to apply the performance trim name for the sake of sales. VAG is no different. As long as there are schmucks to be happily parted from their name, they'll keep doing it.
The only crossover I wouldn't mind driving
Bruh the Spawn reference, fantastic
Tormentor?
Fermentor?
Odd how the high level brake light is not high level, sort of defeats its purpose.
Dual hand watch guy.
Sooo... Mazda then?
Take a seat for my mentor
All I can see is a “Guy with no Head” now for god sake
Has Henry left? He really took this channel to another level but it seems to be drooping a bit these days...
Henry literally did the last video...
Warren Whats wrong if he has left? Are you suddenly going to unsubscribe now?
Why is it that car reviewers are so obsessed with the brand value of Cupra? To most of us I'm guessing that it doesn't matter one tiny jot. It's just another model designation like S/RS for Audi or AMG for Mercedes. Personally I really don't care - skip the philosophising completely and spend time reviewing the car not the manufacturer's brand intentions.
Yeah... Cupras with 1.5L engines. Guess it's like 220d "AMGs".
Why would you need over 300hp to go to the shop or drive your kids to school? No wonder there are so many accidents every single day when we have a lot of people driving something they just can´t handle.
Minute 6:00 pretty much sums it up "a bit fake, but I could do without it." C/Net logo vest, really?
i love it
It looks like any other run of the mill car these days.
Formentor sounds like a 2nd rate Marvel villain
What make is a Cupra?
Seats performance arm..
I like very much the review. When it's my money though , the Alfa Stelvio 280 q4i veloce is just a better car and the price is not that much different. Not to talk about herritage...
All I'd like from Cupra is a new Ibiza. As we need a newer chavtastic hot hatch to annoy everyone.
Looks good
The logo looks like an oven ready chicken!
Rich man's Kia Sonet
It's a better breakaway than DS did from Citroen then messed up the whole range 👍
Mitsubishi?
I’ll be honest it looks like a taller, lifted version of my MK4 Leon
You would be correct, but there are people who are into suv's. I've had the oportunity to drive one for a weekend as well as driving the mk gti on track and I can say that the formentor feels a bit heavier with the awd but it is just as capable and fun. The one I drove had the optional brembo brakes and didn't compain for a sec even with 4 people on the car and going at a pretty lively pace.
Because it is a taller, lifted version of a Leon MK4.
Looks like a Crosstrek. The Cupra definitely drives better.
Nice Seat
It's 2021, there is no light on the Lotus SUV?
Because an SUV is the antithesis of everything Lotus.
쿠퍼 모드!! 캐간지!!!
o compact SUV, perfect
Good review (as always), but that background music is very much not needed nor wanted. Carfection is a lot above those cheap tv-tunes 😉
Thats a lot of ads in ten minutes....
audi type beat
Looks quite good
I like it
I can't imagine you'll get anymore than 30mpg. I'll pass for now and wait for their EV
Strikes me that the 7-speed DSG (the standard VW unit I guess) might be more fuel efficient? And being 2 litre I guess it's not turbo charged where as the smaller engine model might be. Although the smaller engined model is a manual so no matter the difference then I guess... The Raceroom simulator for PC (owned by KW Auto) has had Cupra race models for a while now.
"The catchy name CUPRA is not an invented name but stands for "Cup Racing" and thus creates a link with SEAT's successful involvement in motorsport." you learn something new every day 😁
Does VAG even make an NA 2.0 cyl? It's probably the ubiquitous turbo ea888
All their 2 litre engines are turbo charged, and have been for years.
You do understand that this is an mqb Evo derivation. This means 'go look at the golf range' with a different body and duller interior. So, there's the 1.5t, 2.0t dsg, 2.0t AWD dsg...... Etc etc. Whatever the golf is limited to, so is this. This can't be news to you.
Internet went batty over golf r with no manual. This is a golf r with a raised seat Leon body.
A new performance brand, that starts off with a crossover? What a load of bollocks...
the badge i guess refers to a bull
Front Maserati rear lambo
Back end kind of looks like a urus
Yeah id still buy an alfa romeo stelvio quad...
Well you're in the minority!
Recent head to head
Formentor 4.5 / 5 stars
Stelvio 3/ 5 stars
Tiguan gothic ricer edition 🙄 I'd just prefer an Ateca with this performance tbh
Would probably prefer Kia xceed as a cross country car instead! 7 years guarantee than a vw group problematic car.
Liked the review & presentation style...not the car for me though but that's the case with most TH-cam content!
Since swapping my Honda cr-Z for an SLK250, I don't bloody fit in any other 2 seat roadster, i really don't get the love for a short 0-60 time. Sure the SLK is way faster, but in practice that just means you can't have as much fun, because you are driving illegal speeds so quickly. IDK, but if I were to fit a 1.5 MX5 seems like the dream. And I would take an ep3 civic over a modern 300HP one as well. Unless you can use it as a track car of course than it's cool, but I can't afford two cars.
IMO the focus for sporty cars really needs to go back to Colin chapman's vision. Not more power, less weight. Anyone can build a 300HP car that's fast in s straight line and handles well enough, but is it a fun car? Nah.
As in this review the formentor is faster than the stelvio, but is it as much fun to drive? 0-60 gets old and isn't useful IRL.
Hate these thumbnails every body is using with their hands held out. Doug demuro has the similar pose on every video.
Can it really make people want to view ?
They make two cars and they are both are SUVs! Cupra is not a sport brand it is a VW cash grab!
Realno povišeni golf r,ali sa vrhunskim 5 cilindara motor
The fermenter 😂
The new cupra cormentor review⛔⛔⛔
The new cupra cormentor DESIGN review
I don't think I have heard of the comic character I did not hear the name clearly what was it?
Spawn
Pretty cool character, in my opinion.
@@matthewp5812 o he said spawn ok I cant remember what he looked like but he was good