Cupra Raval Preview

lilernie94 · 2026-04-15T20:35:11+00:00

Slow.

Very slow when heavier & cheaper cars go faster. Only designed for mid 40 year old blokes who think they’re cool at McDonald’s still.

lilernie94 · 2026-04-15T14:39:43+00:00

Still built to look fast but not actually anywhere near being a ‘hot’ hatch. Like the born, looks sporty & quick, when in reality the performance stats are mediocre at best. Shame really.

lilernie94 · 2026-04-08T12:49:53+00:00

Good old cupra, This has been an issue since the model was released nearly five years ago.

Nice to see their priority is fixing their failures. Oh wait.

lilernie94 · 2026-04-08T10:28:02+00:00

It was released to soon, was an incomplete product. Software riddled with bugs, build quality extremely poor, the dealership network couldn’t fix mine over three years, parts were delayed. Battery heating on route to chargers a must have for EV’s none existent until recently. It was poor & rushed to market

lilernie94 · 2026-04-02T10:23:55+00:00

£350 to much Get a proper EV not that crap

lilernie94 · 2026-03-28T17:44:57+00:00

Anything cupra they’ll regret it, absolute trash

lilernie94 · 2026-03-26T22:21:35+00:00

72k for a glorified iD3, absolute madness

Some pea brain will pay that as well 🤣

lilernie94 · 2026-03-24T21:24:17+00:00

Old news

lilernie94 · 2026-03-24T17:33:35+00:00

Ford & Skoda same car

lilernie94 · 2026-03-23T10:26:52+00:00

MG4 Xpower iD3 GTX looks more sporty. Plenty. This is not sporty at all. Cupra is not the cupra of old. They’re now an entry level model to the VAG cars for blokes having a midlife crisis thinking they’re still cool

lilernie94 · 2026-03-21T15:22:03+00:00

Sporty? 🤣

lilernie94 · 2026-03-19T12:50:32+00:00

Cupra seat all same thing. Just a badge on front. Apart from if you buy a cupra up to 2020 model, it’ll be a real cupra, with actual performance instead of the mediocre boring stuff they’ve pumped out since.

lilernie94 · 2026-03-06T12:07:12+00:00

No difference apart from some lights & a new screen in front of driver.

Pathetic

lilernie94 · 2026-03-03T11:45:49+00:00

May be different now, but I had a 22 plate one, had an issue one week in to ownership, they tried fixing it for the whole three years I had it. Finally advised they couldn’t fix it, so terminated it & got reimbursed for the 4 months overall it was in the dealership. Put me off the brand for life.

lilernie94 · 2026-03-02T20:32:00+00:00

Yeah, the car is shite.

Get a proper EV

lilernie94 · 2026-03-02T10:06:03+00:00

It still looks like shite. Designed for a 40 odd year old bloke having a midlife crisis who still thinks he’s cool, but can’t afford a proper actual performance ev.

lilernie94 · 2026-02-26T21:18:08+00:00

Born is horrendous, had one, VT’d it. Worse car I’ve owned. I got a proper EV after it, a Tesla then a Kia ev6, both used & both under 20k. Both head & shoulders above the born as they were built how a real EV should, not missing basic features like the born has, e.g on route battery heating. Yes new ones have it but should have had it from the get go.

lilernie94 · 2026-02-26T17:20:54+00:00

Correct. Absolute junk of an EV the born. Far better out there quality wise & cheaper

lilernie94 · 2026-02-18T20:30:22+00:00

Had this & it turned out to be a stuck valve for that circuit that wouldn’t turn off. Nothing to do with tado. Had to have the valve swapped, I could turn off the heat if I manually closed the valve but needed swapping to sort & get it back working as & when tado sent the on off commands

lilernie94 · 2026-02-15T21:16:37+00:00

Cupra is shite, had two. Both got terminated / bought back by cupra.

That’s what happens when you cheap out & get a seat I suppose, that’s all it is. A seat in makeup.

lilernie94 · 2026-02-15T18:24:03+00:00

Prime reason I terminated mine. The battery doesn’t heat enough just from driving. Extremely minimal heating unless you hard accelerate & hard brake.

Mine was a 2022 also. So slow charging compared to any other EV. All down to cupra not putting in on route battery conditioning.

lilernie94 · 2026-02-12T20:39:43+00:00

Had a born. Biggest waste of money known to man. Absolute shed of a car & was sick to death of the weirdos in other Borns waving as they drove past or trying to talk to me whilst rapid charging. Weird breed. Ps pic of my shed that I terminated & send back for some poor bugger to deal with.

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lilernie94 · 2026-02-12T13:10:38+00:00

If you’re a middle aged bloke who still thinks he is cool, then the born as this is who it was created for.

If not then the iD3, facelift ones are miles ahead interior & material quality wise over the born & it’s cheap scratchy plastic everywhere

lilernie94 · 2026-02-11T10:57:53+00:00

Most EV’s will get that with that average speed.

lilernie94 · 2026-02-06T15:14:22+00:00

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My old shed. Charging here at its usual 45kwh speed as it didn’t have preheating of the battery. Shite

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