the western weekender » Friday, February 11, 2022
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The CUPRA Ateca SUV is heading to Australia soon.
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UPRA Australia has announced specifications for the inbound CUPRA Ateca SUV, which will be available in one highly specified model grade, named VZx. The Ateca will form part of CUPRA’s Australian model launch in mid-2022, which also includes the Leon hatchback, and the Formentor crossover SUV. Combining striking design and DNA with blistering performance, the CUPRA Ateca, named after the historic town in Spain, pushes the sport paradigm of ‘sports utility vehicle’ even further with a 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine mated to a seven-speed DSG and 4Drive all-wheel drive. This potent combination produces 221kW and 400Nm, enabling the CUPRA Ateca to sprint to 100km/h in 4.9 seconds. As the only CUPRA Ateca model grade offered in Australia, the
CUPRA Ateca VZx will come fully-loaded. Standard features of the go-fast SUV include extensive visual and performance-oriented cues, including 19-inch Exclusive Sport alloy wheels in black and copper, full LED headlights with daytime running lamps, rear LED lamps with dynamic ‘swiping’ indicators , fog lamps with cornering lamps, Light Assist (automatic highbeam), Driving Profile Selection, Dynamic Chassis Control and Progressive Steering. Jeff Shafer, CUPRA Australia’s Head of Product and Planning, lauded the Ateca for its dualnatured design and performance. “With Ateca we have a practical, versatile SUV, while still benefiting from CUPRA’s DNA; which transforms it,” he said. “By offering one fully-loaded variant, we can give customers the very best the brand has to offer in terms of tech, driving experience and style, while maintaining [a] simple to understand model offering for our local launch.”
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