Spanish product offensive: 2025 Cupra Tavascan electric car and Terramar hybrid spearhead delayed range renewal

Cupra is gearing up for a famous 2025 with fresh nameplates and original faces for present ones, nonetheless it in actual fact isn’t occurring as speedy as we expected.

Leading the payment are two fresh names which is ready to enter Australia’s most customary market section. Tavascan is the swoopy-roofed electrical medium SUV and Terramar is a extra mature family SUV that makes utilize of turbo-petrol or stride-in hybrid strength.

Following these are facelifts of Cupra’s first standalone automobile, the Formentor, alongside with Leon sizzling hatch and a original Sportstourer wagon variant.

Cupra had originally announced these fresh objects would reach earlier than the 2d half of of the one year, nonetheless Cupra head of product Jeff Shafer told Chasing Vehicles delaying the launches used to be a strategic decision.

“I judge we’ve had a stare on the 2025 launch actions and we desire to make certain that that we bear justice to every model, give it time to launch, make sure that the network is bringing them into the showroom with ample level of interest.

“Tavascan and Terramar are two of the famous pillars within the growth of the emblem — in particular in pushing to a rather bigger SUV than we’ve had within the medium SUV differ,” mentioned Shafer.

It’s also price noting that other Volkswagen Neighborhood brands alongside with Skoda and VW possess busy launch schedules this one year, with a bunch of fresh electrical and combustion-engined autos arriving imminently

The Polestar 2-love Tavascan is arriving in Cupra garages rapidly with a rear-pressure Patience variant packing 210kW and 534km using differ from $60,990, earlier than on-avenue prices.

Cupra is expecting the majority of traders to make a alternative the Inner Pack with a extra great stereo and higher 20-crawl alloys ($65,490) or circulate as much as the AWD VZ with 250kW and adaptive dampers for $74,990, earlier than on-avenue prices.

The emblem didn’t pronounce about gross sales volumes for the Tavascan, though stock is anticipated to be a limited tight at launch, in accordance with Shafer.

Following the Tavascan is one other fresh nameplate for Cupra, the Terramar. Arriving in July, the Terramar makes utilize of the same MQB Evo platform as the fresh Volkswagen Tiguan.

Limited print are but to be confirmed, nonetheless question a pair of spruce phases — likely called V, VZ and VZx — to utilize diversified tunes of the VW Neighborhood’s ubiquitous 2.0-litre turbo-petrol four-cylinder.

A brand fresh tune as viewed within the Skoda Kodiaq RS outputs 195kW and 400Nm.

A performance-oriented stride-in hybrid will likely be on the desk, likely badged VZe, which punches out 200kW and enables around 100km of EV using differ (WLTP). Set a question to an entry variant from about $55,000 and for the Terramar to be Cupra’s ideal vendor in Australia.

Previously pigeon-holed for April or Could well well, the facelifted Leon sizzling hatch and Formentor sports activities SUV possess each and each been bumped again to the third quarter of 2025 with pricing and closing specification to be launched.

New stare sheet steel and revamped inner know-how will likely bring in a brand fresh entry-stage 110kW Leon, alongside with a revised 200kW stride-in hybrid variant and the VZx headline sizzling hatch retains the same 221kW output.

The fresh, all-wheel pressure Leon Sportstourer VZx wagon and Formentor procure bumps to 245kW and 420Nm in Europe, alongside with the trick torque splitting rear differential from the VW Golf R.

Rounding out 2025 will likely be the upgraded Born electrical sizzling hatch, which is ready to reach in punchier 240kW rear-pressure VZ guise, alongside with some additional level of interest to Cupra’s first battery-electrical nameplate. A bigger battery (now 79kWh) improves differ, too.

Cupra Australia director Ben Wilks mentioned the fresh nameplates and revamped Leon and Formentor will bolster the 2d share of the emblem’s enhance in Australia.

“So we’ve received a pathway now for our first possibilities to graduate towards and we’ve received something to whisper some fresh other folks to the emblem who most customary what we were doing nonetheless appropriate didn’t slot within the scale section that we had,” Wilks told Chasing Vehicles.

Having a stare additional forward, Cupra can help proper in 2026 with the differ as above. Then it’s about fresh product again, the Polo-sized Raval electrical automobile having a stare likely for unhurried subsequent one year or early 2027 release, adopted by one other fresh nameplate — a mammoth SUV, due in 2027.