“The Cupra Ateca may be expensive, but it’s an attractive under-the-radar performance SUV. It’s practical, well-made and it goes like the clappers too.”
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Score: 7 / 10
“The Cupra Ateca is a talented performance SUV that offers tremendous pace, hot hatch-rivalling handling and loads of kit.”
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Score: 8.4 / 10
“The Cupra Ateca is unique at this price point as a practical and comfortable family SUV that also offers plenty of excitement behind the wheel, and speed to match. To get close to it would require something like a Porsche Macan, which is several thousand pounds more expensive.”
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Model reviewed: facelift range
Score: 7 / 10
“Despite dynamic foibles, there’s a fundamentally capable car here. The ride certainly isn’t deal-breakingly hard, and although ultimate dynamic appeal is lacking, the Cupra Ateca is a convincing enough fast daily driver.”
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Score: 7 / 10
“As an affordable family-oriented driver’s car, it evades most attempts at serious objective criticism – but not all.”
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Score: 8 / 10
“Does the Ateca work as a Cupra model in its own right? In all honesty, this could well get away with still having a SEAT badge on the front, and with Cupra logos dotted about like they are currently.”
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Score: 8 / 10
“The Cupra Ateca is a hugely attractive proposition. It ticks plenty of boxes and is both great to drive and also impressively useful and practical. Sure, some might find it too closely aligned to Seat still, but the Ateca is a hugely promising start for Cupra.”
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Score: 7.6 / 10
“The Cupra Ateca is an accomplished performance SUV at a tempting price but it’s a little short on character.”
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Score: 7 / 10
“The Cupra Ateca SUV is a brilliant family car that’s fast and great to drive, but you’ll have to accept its gloomy interior and boy racer exterior complete with tuner-esque branding.”
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Score: 6 / 10
“SUV is fast, but it’s no sports car.”
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“When Spanish brand Cupra set out on its own as the performance arm of SEAT it had only one model in its stable – a spiced up version of the Ateca SUV. Three years down the line and the Cupra Ateca has just been given a makeover making it look more dynamic and an upgrade to its onboard equipment to bring it right up to date.”
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Model reviewed: 2020 facelift
Score: 6 / 10
“Cupra’s performance SUV has been spruced up, but it’s not enough to keep it competitive in a very crowded segment.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 7 / 10
“This might look like a SEAT Ateca with a funny badge but it’s actually the start of something new. The Spanish car manufacturer has launched its performance sub-brand, Cupra, as an entity in its own right”
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Model reviewed: Special Edition
Score: 8 / 10
“The fastest crossover SUV on sale for (vaguely) sensible money.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 8 / 10
“It would be easy to dismiss the Cupra Ateca as a badge-engineered folly. Cast your cynicism aside: this is a credible fast SUV”
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Score: 7.8 / 10
“SEAT’s Cupra brand debuts with a sporty SUV”
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“The Cupra Ateca is ahead of the SUV game with quick steering and good balance.”
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Score: 8 / 10
“SEAT’s… sorry, Cupra’s Golf R on stilts is a surprisingly effective hot hatch substitute, and retains all the good points that make the cooking Ateca such a winner. It’s not as involving as some hot hatches, but it’s still plenty of fun – and it offers something unique.”
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Score: 7 / 10
“There’s not much else like it for the money, so long as you can get your head around the badge… and the price.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 8 / 10
“The Cupra Ateca offers huge performance and impressive practicality for a reasonable price, but the Ford Puma ST will deliver even bigger thrills for significantly less money. And, if you’re after a sports SUV with an upmarket interior and a cosseting ride, then we’d take a Cupra Formentor.” (Lawrence Cheung)
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“The Cupra Ateca is a relatively unusual proposition in the mid-size SUV class, as high-performance off-roaders tend to sit in the upper echelons of the large SUV market. As such this Ateca has few natural rivals, the closest being the vastly more expensive Audi RS Q3.”
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