Cupra Leon Sportstourer wagon confirmed for Australia with 2025 release date 

Cupra Australia currently confirmed that this will bring a wagon model of its Leon sizzling hatch to Australia. The estate is is known because the Leon Sportstourer.

In confirming the global 2025 facelift for its current Formentor sports SUV and the Leon differ, Cupra’s native arm launched that the highly-anticipated wagon is due in Australia spherical the guts of 2025.

As for specification, Cupra confirmed that the Sportstourer shall be offered in a high-spec, high performance guise with an uprated EA888 2.0-litre turbocharged petrol four-cylinder engine with 245kW/420Nm.

Chasing Autos understands that a plug-in hybrid variant of the Sportstourer might also be added to the Cupra differ in Australia in time with about 100km differ, though timings for the hybrid had been not confirmed currently.

What precisely is a Cupra Leon Sportstourer?

The Sportstourer bodystyle has been available in plenty of global markets, including Europe and the United Kingdom, for some time. Within the UK, the mannequin is generally known because the Leon Estate.

It’s truly the very cease wagon relative of the Volkswagen Golf R. At the 2d, the Sportstourer is powered by plenty of engines abroad, including a high-spec 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine that produces 228kW/400Nm.

Nonetheless that’s all trouble to alternate, with currently’s info surrounding the 2025 facelift of every Formentor and Leon objects.

The Sportstourer will be bumped up to 245kW/420Nm and can characteristic a trick torque-splitter rear differential also set in in other Volkswagen Neighborhood objects such because the fresh Audi RS3 and the upcoming 2025 Audi S3.

And while Volkswagen axed the Volkswagen Golf R from the Australian lineup closing year, Cupra believes there is solid seemingly in promoting extra niche vehicles, devour wagons.

Cupra Australia’s head of product Jeff Shafer told Australian media currently that “[Sportstourer] is a distinct segment that’s attention-grabbing to us at Cupra… we don’t have to be chasing quantity in the way that a mainstream mass-market designate desires to,” he said.

“I mediate that the amount goes to be moderately restricted, however I’m also ready to be bowled over”.

Defend tuned to Chasing Autos for extra updates as we salvage closer to the wagon’s native originate in 2025.