CUPRA Tavascan first look video

The video is here BTW


Some link issues to it at the minute, till it's resolved. My moderator skills don't stretch to edit the original post of the board owner . I can't. Till then it's above. .

I need the height for the dreaded backache, so I'm not too sure whether the batteries push the floor up so it gives you a cramped Arona seating position or more of an Ateca upright one. Pretend SUV verses a real SUV (Arona v Ateca seating). You'd have to sit in it to find out.

That rear door, oh yes we have seen that . It's the style of the Ateca sunken door into the body. It creates space in the design by not separating the door from the body, the door fits into the wheel arch which is merged into the body. There was a bit of angst originally by some people that bought the Ateca then found they had that design. It uses rubbers to seal the door in from the wheel. I suspect dealers secretively changed the rubber seals on early Atecas to stop road grot getting brought in. Spanish bought got excited about it. Some individuals put filler in. Only if you were wearing a skirt would you stand a chance of brushing any dirt in that area onto you. The issue is largely forgotten now, with the Ateca design of the rear door. Not an issue.

Suspect there was some work to refine the seal. I did get some red sandstone bought in beyond the seal once. A tractor ploughing a fueld in a red sandstone area had been on the road, so red sandstone got inside the door beyond the seal.

It was not the first Vag car with the sunken rear door arch built into the body in that open fashion style. I did find other models at the time when checking when some buyers had a crisis about it. Turned out it wasn't a corrosion issue either.

The "sunroof" is fixed, panoramic is a fixed roof. They must have decided most people don't open the panoramic roof so they would make it fixed or couldn't engineer it into that shape of the car to motorise it.

The car is suppose to have a very good drag coefficient better than my first car, an Uno ES. Compared to the Ateca and Tarraco, it's longer than the Ateca but shorter than the Tarraco. It will stick out in some parking bays.

Weight wise it's 30% heavier than my current Ateca 2.0 TDI. The batteries add too the weight, but as we all know electric vehicles shift. It might sink into block paving though dependent on how well they are layed.

There are two versions, two motor at the back or four motors, front and back, top of the range. That one has a reduced turning circle due presumably to housing the front motors. Some electrics with four motors do "tank turns". Something to ask the dealer . Youtube videos on that.

I seem to recall it might be one of these cars that can power the house so rather than have home batteries for your solar and power shift of cheap electricity to selling it back to the grid. It might be the BYO with that. A Tesla Powerwall with wheels. So yes it may or may not be one of those. That's the upcoming car batteries that integrate into the Octopus Flux tariffs and similar power companies. Born people will be into all that. Rather than buy batteries for home use, you use your car. Eight times more storage in the car than those you can get for home use, that eight Tesla Powerwalls. Developing technology on grid management. Another one to ask the dealer on bi directional power . You can ask them how the car fits into the homes electricity eco system of dynamic pricing.

That's this one on the charger and like:


It's that dynamic pricing of controlling and managing electricity demand that electric cars can have a role in providing the grid with distributed storage until they sort it out themselves. People already use their home batteries to sell back electricity from the day back into the grid in the evening. Buy it at 7.5p or less and sell it back for 15p per kwhr. Personally think I'd pass on that one but that's a possibility with an EV that's designed into it these days. I would make do with Agile Octopus tariffs in the home (20% saving over regular tariffs) and my EV need to charge would not be that great so wouldn't swap to their EV tariffs. Solar I'm planning to sell to Octopus for 15p kwhr. Now a small licensed power station... await the panels. As for the car, still life in the old Ateca TDI yet but can see I'd move over to an EV when it passes away... another 5 years or so. The Tavascan could be a bit flash for the shopping run thou.

tracktoy said:

Interesting, with what looks like a brick front end I wonder what they have done to get it down.

I also wonder after all these years of getting cars designed so when you hit a pedestrian they slide over the front of the car with less damage to the human body. Being hit by this I would have thought would be very nasty compared to say a Leon.

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The drag coefficient is the tail end... probably the front just easily crumples so looks sturdy but folds when it hits something. No big engine there so you probably got more crumple zone.

Might needs some Newtonian mechanics. Got a big weight travelling with safety protection. Brother use to slam Vauxhall cars into barriers with dummies and telematics on them. Early days of airbags and crumple zones. Front assist is suppose to slam the brakes on these days. That's the added intelligence these days.