The hills are alive with the sound of the SEAT Leon Cupra R World Champion Edition. Yes, Switzerland is getting its own limited edition of  SEAT’s fastest ever hot hatch.Now the Swiss are not known for their love of the motor car, with strict enforcement of speed limits and some very tight regulation of noise and emissions, but for some reason they have...

SEAT dealers are getting ready for the arrival of their most powerful, quickest accelerating and fastest production car of all time, the new 262bhp SEAT Leon Cupra R.Surprisingly it’s been four years since we last saw the Cupra R badge on a Leon, and back then it could only manage 225bhp from a turbocharged 1.8-litre unit. Now the engine capacity is up...

The Volkswagen group are on a bit of a roll. There’s a potent new Audi RS3 in the pipeline, Volkswagen have just announced their most powerful Golf R and now, with the Leon Cupra R Seat have got their most powerful hot hatch ever.Using a modified version of the 2.0-litre TSI that appeared in the previous Golf GTI, the Cupra R offers 265bhp and 350Nm of...

Rumours are circulating that Seat are planning to announce a 265bhp version of the Leon Cupra at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September.By borrowing the turbocharged 2.0-litre engine from the new Volkswagen Scirocco R, the more powerful hatch would probably be badged as a Leon Cupra R to distinguish it from the standard Cupra. As well as a healthy power boost,...