Cupra Ateca: ‘A sizzling hot SUV that is fast but not furious’ | Martin Love

The all-new Cupra Ateca is a scorchingly fast SUV that will appeal to anyone who grew up loving performance cars

Cupra Ateca
Price 35,915
0-62mph 5.2 seconds
Top speed 154 mph
MPG 38
CO2 168g/km

The fastest-growing sector of the British population is people over 100 years old. It's estimated there are now 15,000 centenarians in the UK. One of the youngest members of this group of "elite agers" is my Great Aunt Eve. She moved smoothly into triple figures last month. She's remarkable. Laughing, chatting and even making a speech at her birthday party. She declined to tell us the secret of a long life, but it may have had something to do with the double whisky she was sipping. The celebration was in Eastbourne and we drove down in a car at the other end of the age spectrum: factory fresh and scorchingly fast, the Cupra Ateca is leading the charge in a new micro-category of sizzling-hot SUVs. "Whatever you do," said Dad, "do not offer Eve a lift. It might finish her off""