Four Months with the Cupra Formentor 🚗: Long-Term Review

We drive the 2022 Cupra Formentor VZx for 100 days and 6000km to see whether you’ll like it – and whether you should buy one of these Spanish-built sports SUVs.

The Cupra Formentor is a sporty small-to-medium SUV from Volkswagen Group brand Cupra – an offshoot of Seat, based in Barcelona, Spain. Chasing Cars editor Tom Baker has been driving the top-spec 2022 Formentor VZx for the last 100 days to get a sense for what this athletic crossover is like to live with.

The VZx has a 2.0-litre EA888 turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine that makes 228kW of power (305 hp), and 400Nm of torque (295 lb ft). It uses a seven-speed wet-clutch DSG automatic transmission and Cupra’s 4Drive Haldex AWD system. It runs on 20-inch copper wheels and Bridgestone tyres.

The Formentor VZx competes with the Volkswagen Tiguan 162TSI and Tiguan R, Audi SQ2, Hyundai Kona N, and other sporty but affordable SUVs.

As always, we don’t accept advertising from car manufacturers, and we’re powered by Budget Direct - so this is an independent, honest review of the Cupra Formentor.

Time codes:
0:00 - Four Months of Formentor
0:58 - Formentor VZx Specs
2:00 - Performance
3:29 - Chassis
4:49 - Price
6:00 - Design
7:08 - Size
8:05 - Fuel Economy
9:08 - Boot Space
9:48 - Materials
10:38 - Screen Res
11:44 - Some Specs
12:30 - Should You Buy It?

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