Cupra Born

Delighted for you. The wait is nearly over!

Well wear even as the owner of a Model 3 I think the Born must be the best looking EV under 100K, Cupra really know how to style a car, if I can convince the missus she needs to be me we’ll be sorted

Interesting, when I ordered in late Feb I was given no option other than the 58kW version.

Think my dealer said he took orders for six of each and, as best I can tell, all of the 204s have arrived or are close. No e-boosts yet though and no sign of them on the horizon either

@Buddy Bubs thanks

Do these cars have self parking as standard, where the wheel turns itself?

Saw a video on it just wondering if it's just on top spec ones or not.

Oh, and my car is registered, grant approved and collecting tomorrow lunchtime.

Is it too early to start complaining?!

I absolutely love car but they are a few niggly things that are bugging me...

Might leave it for another while, don't want to piss on everybody's chips here!

You might as well be honest, could be helpful to the rest of us

Ok so, this is quite pedantic...!

A few weeks of ownership and I'm very happy with the car. Love the way it drives, love the way it looks. Being very picky, there are a few things bugging me, mostly minor thankfully.

The drivers side wiper is the bottom of the pair, resulting in the passenger side wiper leaving a trail of water coming off the tip as it swipes down, right in the drivers eye line. I assume this is a result of Cupra not bothering to reverse the layout when switching to RHD. At least they mirrored the lights control panel over, unlike the ID3 I test drove.

It's a shame they didnt implement a seat memory function with the Dinamica seats. There even seems to be a blank plastic cover where memory buttons would go. I also feel the rear wiper washer is very cheaply implemented as just a spray over to one side or the rear window that barely strikes the wiper. The passenger side mirror dip function when selecting reverse seems to only be activated by rotating the mirror control knob over to the "L" position, which has to be manually selected every journey. Annoying.

My not so minor complaint, unfortunately, is the Aurora Blue. Although it's a beautiful colour (and in bright sunshine and with a clean car it is spectacular), it's way darker than I expected and is not the vibrant rich blue I was hoping for. Almost looks a dull green at times. I suspect the white might be the best colour available, looking forward to seeing one in the metal!

But otherwise I'm very pleased and love the car! Feel quite smug when I drive by a petrol station or indeed when I pass an ID3 which is by far the uglier cousin of the Born in my opinion!

(Having said that, I don't think the ID3 is at all ugly, just not as nice as the Born!)

The ID3 in black over manganese grey with Sanya black alloys is by far the best combination within this family of cars.

It is cool, it is unpretentious and it drives better than the Born, being no less powerful in 204 guise, but not as unnecessarily hard riding as the Born. Besides, unshackled electric power will get you a ticket every bit as quick as it will drain your battery.

These cars are urban cruisers, quiet, relaxing, effortless, efficient if used correctly. It would take a bit more than bronze accents to make one distinct enough to be a 'hot' variant of the other. Might as well be comfortable in that case.

Are you sure about the accelerating and braking being controlled by the park assist? I haven't tried it yet but the dealer said it only controlled the steering.

What a pity Cupra haven't changed the wipers to the correct side. One of the few things that annoyed me on my previous ID.3. The lead wiper should be on the drivers' side. After a single wipe the smear line is right in your eye view. Looks like it could be a simple enough job to change the crank arms around, pity it hasn't been implemented as yet.

Also because the drivers side wiper starts from a lower position it does not reach quite as far to the A pillar as the passenger side. So there is a slightly larger blindspot at the A pillar for the driver, which is increased because of the distance of the driver from the windscreen. More noticeable when the windscreen is covered in muck.

Yeah it's definitely fully autonomous but you can control the brake without interrupting it if you need to. The older version of park assist in my Golf required manual braking and accelerating plus indicating to select what side to park on. The new ID.3 software doesn't require indicating and can detect spaces at a higher speed so I'm curious if it's the same in the Born.

How do you do that?