Damien Chazelle’s short film Whiplash gained enough interest to green-light the feature-length film of the same name. That was the short film’s intended purpose, sure, but the pressure on the young ...

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What's a 'Raval' when it's at home? Think of the Cupra Raval as a smaller Born, just as the Ibiza is a smaller Leon. Except… don't. First, for the Raval, Cupra had design freedom whereas the Born is ...

A hot hatch. Bit of a rarity nowdays, eh? Quite. And quite a hot hatch. This is the classic four-cylinder FWD deal, only now the Cupra Leon has got itself 325bhp and a zero-to-62mph time of 5.4 ...

It was hard not to be transported back a decade with the announcement of the VZ and VZ TCR. Back then, stripped-out hot hatches seemed to be all the rage, as SEAT, Honda, Renault and VW vied to be the ...

With the new VZ, Cupra has finally given the Leon some teeth. The full-fat 320bhp four-cylinder engine paired with a relatively lightweight front-drive chassis is a new combination for the Cupra brand ...

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Cupra has announced that not only is it launching a new 321bhp Leon VZ hot hatch in 2026 there’s also going to be a more focused, track-inspired version called the Cupra Leon VZ TCR. This hardcore ...