Collected mine today, 140 miles back from IMG Warrington. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy and I already love the car - but I’m a negative and cynical soul, so I thought I’d offer my thoughts on the things that raised eyebrows in the first 6hrs of my 290 Copra... This is proper nit-picking, so don’t anyone get your knickers in a twist, but would be interested to hear your thoughts.
Bear in mind I’ve had a 2013 FR150, then a 2015 FR184, have probably spent about 100,000 miles with the mk3.
Bear in mind I’ve had a 2013 FR150, then a 2015 FR184, have probably spent about 100,000 miles with the mk3.
- Feels sluggish in comfort mode especially on motorway acceleration, but found I was already going much quicker than I thought I was. Cupra mode is obviously the good stuff, I’ll have to play with Individual and see if I can find a balance. - It’s like how Eco mode was non-responsive in the FR184, would be nice to have presets like “Eco, Comfort, Normal, Sport, Pants-Off”
- Steering feels pointlessly heavy at low speeds. I’m used to comfortable light or “sporty” heavy steering in the FR depending on mode. People will potter round town and park in the Cupra too!
- The centre screen seems to have a mind of its own. Will randomly put the AC display on, or Sports panel, or an options screen. Only behaves itself on Nav mode. I’ll try and work that out. Likewise the cluster doesn’t seem to stay in whichever view/content.
- OCD hugely triggered by the white dot!
- Soundaktor is a nice sound, but it makes that sound when you really want to hear the engine and exhaust. Needs to be an option in the stock menus rather than needing plugins or tools.
- Feels like the cluster is the wrong way round, I’d prefer speed on the left and rpm on the right, but no idea why!
- Speedo gauge feels a bit vague... Thick 20mph increments to 180mph is silly. Maybe thick 10mph increments to 100, then 20mph increments to whatever top speed is reasonable to show.
- Was trying to maximise economy on a motorway run, got a solid 34mpg and I wasn’t crawling along. Seems to drop like a stone with acceleration, mind! Just an observation...
- Cluster is angled to minimise glare I guess, but I spent the whole time feeling it had flopped forward a bit!
- Indicator stalk and DSG lever are a bit heavier or clunkier than the FR, needs more positive input. Sporty maybe.
- Front Assist seems a bit pointless... Look away from the road to search for a little picture saying you’re too close to the car in front. Maybe I’ve missed the audio option to shout at you if you’re getting too close because you could be distracted and haven’t seen traffic slowing ahead. And the fact it’s there at all surely means it has all the hardware required for adaptive cruise, so why not just include it?