New 2025 Cupra Born VZ | The Spanish do it better (than the Germans for Volkswagen-Audi Group)

[@CampervanTime]

You can customise the bottom left and bottom right buttons on the centre screen to be what you want, so the steering wheel heating button could be one of those if you didn't want to go into the climate menu every time

[@BuckleUpShow]

Or... There could just always be a button for all the things you want to do at the push of a button

[@mandyarnage2530]

Great review, nice pace to it, enjoyable watch, just subscribed.

[@BuckleUpShow]

Thank you so much, it's greatly appreciated

[@MattyThomas86]

That efficiency figure will come from people like yourself testing the car out and other press . The VZ has the more efficient motor and is easy capable of 3.5-4.0m/kwh . At 3.5 that’s around 276miles , in warmer months you’re looking at 300+ easily . I was doing 200miles in a 58kw born. So I think your underestimating alittle

[@BuckleUpShow]

You have to be careful when challenging Jasper on his maths because there is almost certainly a spreadsheet he has worked it out from, worth saying he drives in a spirited manner with the heater on high and it is winter when this car was tested though

[@MattyThomas86]

@ my comment comes from a long term user . That’s all

[@BuckleUpShow]

Yes, it's possible to get better efficiency if you drive with a lot more attention towards throttle input. However, even in cases where driving more economically but still at the speed limits on faster roads, the best that Jasper ever saw for a journey was around 2.7 m/kWh. However so much of the potential range for an EV is affected by the road type and speed you're on, that two different people's efficiencies are not directly comparable.

[@nigelbailey72]

I've got a VZ and 3.9 is easily achievable on a decent run... I'm off to Liverpool on Christmas Eve Eve from Leicester so that'll be interesting. I'll charge to 100% at home so the round trip should be easy

[@BuckleUpShow]

How fast would you typically be driving on the motorway on a decent run?

[@DarrenMansell]

Ok, either there's something wrong with that car or it's done 3000 miles around a racetrack. We've done 3000 miles in our VZ and averaged 3.7 miles / kWh. We always get around 300 miles out of a charge and don't exactly drive it slow (see my video reviews). It's definitely capable of 350 miles on a charge in the right conditions and we've been close to that many times.

[@BuckleUpShow]

It's done 3000 miles with motoring journalists driving it, so the usage is probably comparable to how a rental car would have been driven

[@DarrenMansell]

@BuckleUpShow I'm struggling to believe even motoring journalists could get it that low. Perhaps the tyre pressures have never been set right!?

[@BuckleUpShow]

We are pretty confident that the tyre pressures for a car that is on Cupra's press fleet will be correctly set 😅 Driving conditions and style have a massive impact on efficiency, and testing a car to its limits will have a negative impact on its efficiency. Equally journeys and road conditions have large impacts - on the way to work Jasper can get 5.3 m/kWh but on the way home only around 2 m/kWh as it's all uphill.

[@DarrenMansell]

@BuckleUpShow yeah that's fair enough. It's just so far outside of my experience that I'm not sure how I'd get mine that low. Even if racing it, you'll still get a lot of it back on regen. The energy has to go somewhere.

[@BuckleUpShow]

Very heavy acceleration on country roads will do it for you. The energy will go to the friction brakes if the braking is heavy, too - there's only so much that regen can do if the stopping power demanded is greater than the regen can provide. It was also chilly when we had this on test, which will have had had a negative impact on range. We'd also like to be very clear that we were impressed with the car as a whole and the figures given are from the vehicle as tested - we are confident that better range could be achieved, but the range shown given the driving circumstances and style is pretty impressive.

[@mattng3610]

Music sounds like an episode of Grand Designs set in Tron

[@BuckleUpShow]

That's exactly what we were going for

[@34Realist]

Better Look at the EV6

[@BuckleUpShow]

We've got one on test this month, video going out in a few weeks 😁

[@mikees60]

Matt green?????

[@BuckleUpShow]

Technically a premium metallic paint, but it's such a dark colour that in a lot of lights it looks surprisingly matte.

[@Charles-MG5]

Look like BYD Atto 3 or Golf 8

[@BuckleUpShow]

I think you’ll find it looks most like an ID.3

[@vp272]

I know this is an old model now but those awful seat back plastics look awful and no seat pockets or vents

[@BuckleUpShow]

It's only been out 3 years, still more than half its life cycle left

[@MrTrull1]

Black jeans ftw.

[@BuckleUpShow]

Should we buy him some chaps?

[@MrTrull1]

@ I will donate a year’s earnings and forego the thigh photos for that kind of offer.

[@markwilliams4274]

Seems very plasticity to me shame as I was considering it.

[@BuckleUpShow]

Which specific bits of plastic concern you? If you get the chance to go and sit in one I'd recommend it - most materials are very nice 😁

[@markwilliams4274]

@BuckleUpShow Doors,dash, center console seem to be made of very cheap plastic.

[@BuckleUpShow]

Elements of all of these have plastic on them, but I'd not say any feel particularly cheap - even the door cards have a decent texture on them which helps improve the look and feel. You will, however, struggle to find a car in this class which doesn't have a lot of plastic in it.

[@nickhickson8738]

Only one major fault. It's an EV. Too much regarding things that have nothing to do with ease of driving. No knobs, info screen Apple car play, blah blah blah. They'll never learn.

[@BuckleUpShow]

Who will never learn?