Strange that on the sportiest model you have to delve into the infotainment system to change the setting rather than have a separate button. Does it remember the setting, or do you have to set it each time the car is started? If it's the latter that is a major PITA.
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MK3 Leon Cupra, what we know
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Bet it's the latter as it is with mine, safety feature they say, makes sense if the Mrs borrows the car tho
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Would not recommend leaving it off on normal roads, even having to do evasive action for that d...head that pulls out on you makes the car go wild. Fine for a track day or agood bit of road you know like the back of your had. Remember280PS through the front wheels is a hand full without electronics
No having it off is safe as long as you drive sensibly
280 bhp through the front wheels is nothing these days , traction control or not.
You want to try an old school car with about 230 bhp with no abs or traction control that's a proper drivers car , people have it too easy these days with traction control , most drivers would t even have a clue what it does or even notice the symbol flashing on their dashboard when it engages.
So whats the point of turning it off and yes as you say old school 230 bhp was a proper drivers car and would bit you if you got it wrong big time. Its not a case of having it easy, it would be so hard to drive on normal roads and use the power that a car with less power but just as good handling would make a fool of you.
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In Finland you can directly leave the ESC off from dashboard- don't know why its different in different countries?! Press once ESC sport, twice ESC 100 % off
And yes, its not that difficult to drive without ESP/ESC, that's all imagination stuff in your head or just not bothered with "hard driving" (joke).
The point is that you can feel the car without any of the ESP traction control interfering with the handling, and its quite nice to feel the power to be in control. The car brakes annoyingly (ESP) when hard cornering etc. I understand a 600 hp car is harder to drive without ESP but 280 hp hardly. You have to take some lessons from Räikkönen or Alonso
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Tommi Makinen isn't doing much these days, maybe he does lessons. Also, even with the esc off, the diff still works doesn't it?
Yep, the slip diff works all the time... Put the 280 manual through the paces the other day and WOW... What a difference in cornering ability compared to my mk2 Cupra (pre-facelift). I went through a 270° motorway ramp down to the motorway with starting speed around 35mph (60kph) and was doing around 85 when coming out of the ramp... No understeer at all and felt like the slip diff is THE thing on this beauty! I could've never done that kind of acceleration in my mk2 because of understeer... I love the car. Maybe it's one of the Northernmost Cupra280? I live north from the Arctic Circle
Someone beat you to it.
http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=402634
Cupra vs Megane 265
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http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2014/5/30/JE-Design-Milks-the-Seat-Leon-Cupra-for-345HP-7720591
Doesn't look the best but decent power upgrade.
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Doesn't look the best but decent power upgrade.
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