Cupra Born

Yeah let's go we'll see if they'll give us the keys.

I've never had to wait for a car before I'm the most impulsive irresponsible car buyer you'll ever meet I usually just spot a used car I like and buy it on the spot, worry about getting rid of old one afterwards.

Bought last car the Audi A6 4 hours after deciding I wanted a change in Christmas week!

To be honest I bought the Born on a whim too, apart from testing an id3 about 18 months ago I didn't look at anything else. There could be plenty better out there but I'm happy with my choice. So the wait is unusual for me, at least my old car is gone already!

I've never owned an SUV and dont particularly want to. My father just got an etron 55, it's gorgeous I've driven it a good bit but he's just retired after a hard life working and it was a present to himself and it was twice the price of the Born. Something about the Born just grabbed me, and I went for it. The 18s don't look bad there, the others are nicer but only really when you look at them both together can you feel any disappointment....but in reality you won't be looking at them all together. 18 is big enough and give a slight bit more comfort and tiny bit extra range you might be glad of some day

It's fab! I know I said I wasn't a fan of vapour grey but it looks great here. Good luck to you in it. The copper accents are really lovely.

Yeah the vapor grey is nice, the last few pics gone up of the cars delivered all look well, the grey and the white. Just good looking car I suppose it looks well in most colours.

Blue, red, white, vapor grey all impressive in my opinion. I prefer them all to the quasar grey in the demo we drove

Saw your motor in the flesh at the dealership beautiful looking car, talking to them they will get 15 Borns total this year but should be able to get 70-80 during 2023 and no limitation on ordering 77s

Looks great, well wear!

Was away in a hire car all week, what a pleasure to sit into my Born last night and glide down the road again.

I've had no issue connecting to the car at the moment just to see battery percentage but haven't needed to to actually do anything with it just yet. I probably won't bother with timed charging or anything just preheating on demand before going to work.

I'm getting around 15kWh/100km at the moment and that's with putting the foot down a good bit and also on the 20" wheels, that's approx 386km a charge. So far covered 251km with a range of 115km so around 366km range on the current charge. The smart regen works really well, it doesn't pick up the odd junction/roundabout but for the most part it's spot on and brakes appropriately at higher speeds approaching a roundabout on an 80kph road for example.

Another small downside of the Born is the rear headroom is slightly less than what I've had in the Golf. In fairness I'm 6'4" but have to slump down a little bit due to the slightly sloping roof. Not a big issue as I think my tallest friends are a bit shorter than me and it's usually shorter people sitting in the back. There seems to be a little bit less headroom for the driver and the top of the windscreen is just above my line of sight but no issue with visibility. Still plenty of leg room and plenty of space around the sides.

It's basic but a nice touch. I'll get a picture this evening as there isn't many night time shots of the car.

The armrests and centre console storage can be customised with some preset colours (unfortunately you can't tweak your own) and the footwell is lit up white. You can adjust the brightness for all 3 zones individually and the armrest can be a different colour to the storage one. The storage one could be a tad brighter but the ceiling lights are SUPER bright so if you're parked and need to find something that should be fine.

The puddle light outside is the Cupra logo which is cool but less functional than a normal spot light but from what I remember as the interior lights are so bright they will let light out of the car if your doors are open so you shouldn't step into a puddle. The front exterior door handles are also lit up.

Theres a few Born in McCoys waiting to be registered, a white and a quasar grey. Just driving past and took a look in. May have been more but just saw those 2

Didn't see either of ours there Izzy

And they were on standard 18s and look fine

I drive past it most days so I'll drop in and see if either of them are in

That's brilliant thank you! They're lovely.. you'll get used to the sensors/touch controls after a while. I'm surprised VW group have to sorted this out by putting a simple back light on the controls. There's been enough negativity over them Appreciate the photos of the lights in real life. Hope you are enjoying the car!

I went through finance so might be different for anyone just doing trade-in only but for finance I needed my license, proof of address and something with my PPS number on it (payslip) and for the salesperson I just gave them the log book, NCT, service history and keys.

Very quick process in fairness and that included taxing it there (a requirement for the grant) and setting up the app on the phone and the car as the salesperson needs to see it connecting successfully to activate it on their system. Best not to create an account or anything beforehand just in case as people had problems connecting.

The dealer will do everything in terms of registration, probably best to bring some documents as proof of address anyway just so they can verify your address for the log book. My log book and tax arrived very quickly. Sure when the car arrives you can ask them when they call just to double check so there's no issues on the day.