On the road: Seat Leon Cupra – car review

'It has a huge amount riding on the affections of people who would prefer to be on a motorbike, or MDMA'

I feel bad mentioning it, because it's not the brand's fault when a person crashes a car: but the car crashes in the news recently, the ones that left several injured or involved a mountain, often seem to have featured a Seat Leon (not always the Cupra, though, which is the hottest of the Leons, my ST280 the hottest of the hot, at 276bhp).

In the UK we'd call the size the "small family car" and be led to wonder what kind of family would like to drive it; in Europe, it's a C-segment, small but not the smallest, and it recalls the time in a person's life when they like to fill their car with friends. Your 20s, in other words; not your 30s - by then, your friends have their own cars, or you have dropped them, and anyway, you are all too drunk to drive.

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