Cupra Born

By the time I charge the car having driven over 300km the range left indicates I'd easily do over 400km consistently. Didn't think the car would do over 400km without driving everywhere like a roast chicken with the AC off and under the speed limit!

Nope.

It's your cable so just keep it.

I sold a car without a parcel shelf, they'll live if they don't get a granny charger with a car. I'm sure a lot of people are genuinely forgetting them when trading in cars as they would be using a Type 2 anyway.

Bit of a price drop in these since I bought mine, I see plenty for sale for 38-39k, they seem to be advertising something called a grant booster of 2000 on top of the 5000 SEAI so they are obviously 231 reg plates. At 35k I think these become a great value car.

I paid 42,434 after a 5000 grant with no extras apart from aurora blue paint which was almost 1000.

Honestly glad to see prices going in the right direction as supply meets demand, hopefully the cost to change is somewhat easy to swallow when I do come to move it on.

0% was the main attraction to me it makes it so easy to see where you are with the loan after a few years, I was getting nowhere fast with the superb loan I think it was 5.9%

Looking at Facebook, it's seems to be a wide issue with the app. Happens from time to time apparently and should settle down shortly!

I've just finished a 260km motorway journey, 18 degrees outside and traveling at 120-130 kmph, sometimes slightly higher and returned 18 kwh/100kms which gives a theoretical motorway range of about 325kms at that speed. I think that's pretty good. I've been getting 13s and 14s for normal driving this summer so far pushing it into the 400kms range.

However, not too bothered now about range/charging that I have the car about 9 or 10 months. I did stop for about 20 mins on the way here and I'll probably do same on way back, so that's adding 40 mins or so to a 500km day trip for work, which I'm fine with

I'm currently considering changing from an ID.3 to a Cupra Born.

Are there any options that most people recommend? Not so much the colour and wheels as these are more a personal thing.

The base spec is much better than the ID.3, is this the spec most go for.

There are plenty of almost new 231 reg cars for sale. Has anyone used a dealer who would negotiate much on the price, plenty are just sticking with the advertised price. Although this is just over the phone and not in person.

Base spec is good, but seems to me that most of the stock dealers are holding have some optional extras. Very few of the eBoost variant around and seems gimmicky to me. To me, copper highlighted wheels work much better with the car's own copper trim than the silver tipped wheels. There are some good prices for 231 pre-regs online alright but my experience (note, one dealer) was that these actually cost more per month than a brand new car due to interest rate differences etc.

I got a good deal on my wife's Born and can PM you the dealer details if you like - he has a showroom full of them so may be amenable to a deal. Generally speaking my experience with dealers is that if they think you're a genuine buyer, buying very soon they will pull the offers out alright - i.e. "I've priced car X at [nearby competitor] and they've offered me zzzzz. I'm looking to put a deposit down before the weekend - can you do better?".

I hope people can get some sort of discount now, last year they wouldn't budge on price but that was in March when the car just came out and they weren't getting any stock from Seat so understandably needed their full margins. In fairness they were by far the best trade-in offer among 5-6 different brands.

If people can get a bit of a discount, getting a deposit contribution and reasonable APR it's a sign of things going back to normal now at last.

I wouldn't pay the premium for an eBoost version, although most are a lot higher spec in other ways too.

I was told by one dealer there is 10k with 0% interest on new or used Cupras that I could take over 2 years. That would cover most of the cost to change, so I would most likely be going down the 231 route.

PM me the dealer name please, it would be good to visit one with plenty of them in different specs/colours.

I bought mine in Cupra Enniscorthy. She arrived today.

Would you believe I never spotted the sills on the demo car, I really like them. I'm only getting to grips with all the features, it automatically slows down on bad bends, coming to roundabouts etc it's in addition to the ACC.

That's the smart regen, excellent feature. It's more efficient to coast than it is to regen and get back up to speed so it's good that you can let the car coast but it will slow down for roundabouts or cars ahead. You aren't always accelerating or braking, sometimes you're just rolling forward in traffic so it's nice that VW aren't ramming regen down your throat.

Make sure to have a good look through all the settings. I recommend changing auto lights to come on early along with turning on "wipers on, lights on" function. You can also set the default ACC distance, I find 2 is adequate as it will increase the distance at higher speeds and you can easily change between 1-5 if you want, I change to 3 on backroads or heavy rain on the motorway.

Check your tyre pressures when you can, the Born and EVs in particular seem to have high pressures from dealers for some reason.

Enjoy the new car, the white looks well!