NEW 2022 CUPRA Born Review: UK FIRST!
Welcome to Tech in the car I am Oliver and this is the all-electric CUPRA Born! I have to start off by saying a big thank you to Marshall SEAT and CUPRA here in oxford for lending me this car so there haven't been any videos of this car in the uk yet so this is one of the first so in this video i'm going to show you around it but first of all let's start talking about this car what it means what it's about and what is CUPRA so i've done videos on the cooper for mentor and on other CUPRA cars as well on this channel please check them out but this is say that's first all-electric car and this car is based off the meb platform that volkswagen group uses same as the ID.3 and this is indeed the ID.3 sportier cousin it takes everything that vw put into the id3 and makes it even better this has got more power depending on the trim and it goes even further this color vapor gray this is a free color there are six color options including a really beautiful metallic blue called aurora blue which is a premium metallic the one thing that you get with all CUPRAs is you get these beautiful copper accents and I love them you got the CUPRA logo here and then you've got the copper accents down the front here of the bumper which just makes it really really stand out you've got a lower nose than the ied3 and it comes together with these triangular headlights which actually light up when you come over to the car when you turn it on and they look fantastic at the night as well a little details in the headlamps as well including little triangles there which also light up and we've got a much shorter bonnet there's no front on this car but you do have access to fluids that you need to top up if you open up this which would do in a little bit in terms of shape and overall size and dimensions is very very similar to the id3 and as you look around it you will see those similarities happen let's talk about batteries with a 58 kilowatt hour battery you get around 264 miles of range you get 204 ps or around 200 horsepower and you can do 0 to 62 in 7.3 seconds if you go up to the 77 kilowatt hour battery then you can also get 230 horsepower with the e-boost mode and that will give you up to 330 miles range which is a really good range and then there's a middle as well you can still get the 58 kilowatt hour battery however this time you can get horsepower and this can do zero to 62 in 6.6 seconds so the fast is out of
all of them but it hasn't got as much power it doesn't have quite as much range as the top 77 kilowatt hour with the e-boost this car has it on the road price of 33 735 pounds for the v1 trim with a 58 kilowatt hour battery and 204 horsepower which like i said does about 260 miles range up to about 44 000 pounds for the v3 top spec this is a v3 as well which has as i mentioned 230 horsepower and a range of 330 miles let's talk options there's two options with the tech pack there's an m and an l with the m you get keyless entry wireless charging and vehicle 2x and then with the l you also get automatic parking which is very handy you can press a button in the car or park itself and they both include something called car 2x which lets your car communicate with other cars and it will be able to share information such as traffic and also communicate with traffic lights potentially when the technology comes so it's quite foolproof of that and also that is available on the id3 so that's something the range of electric cars can talk to each other with and it's a clever clever idea you also have the option of dynamica inside we'll look at the inside of the middle but that's basically alcantara suede finish and you've got two options you've got a gray or a blue color option and then you also got the ability to add the dcc the dcc being the dynamic chassis control which changes how the suspension handles depending on the button that you press so if you want to be firmer it'll be firmer if you want to be soft it'll be softer and there are different mode buttons that's about seven hundred pounds the tech pack m is about seven hundred pounds back l is about nine hundred pounds we also have the option of beats audio which is a nine speaker system with 325 watts of power and then maybe the most useful feature for an electric car a heat pump which is about a 900 pound option and heat pumps are really good because they take the air from the outside and they basically turn it into colder or warmer air depending on what's needed which means they don't need to use the battery as much and it means you save efficiency and you save range heat pumps are really really good and i would recommend it if you buy an ev if it's an option because it helps future-proof the car and it makes it more efficient as well let's talk about the side design so i think the best place to start is probably with these wheels this car has 20 inch wheels there are choices of 18 19 and 20 inch wheels there are five different wheel choices in the uk these are some of the sportier looking wheels these are similar to the wheels i had on my cooper leon 310 estate if you watch that video and they're really cool wheels there's also the option to get copper accents on these wheels so it's a really cool wheel design i love it probably cupra have the best alloy wheel designs along with genesis check out my videos on the genesis cars i really like the aloe wheel designs are all really really good and very striking down the side here this is very much similar to the id3 you've got the same front quarter here which is quite large and unusual we got black mirrors and then we've got some interesting things down the side here this side skirt at the bottom sort of kinks in at the front and at the back in a very aerodynamic way that makes it look very very sporty and then at the back here we've got this matte and glossy checkered kind of design which makes the roof look a bit like it's floating and which is a very nice design detail it brings up this area which otherwise might just be a bit plasticky to make it look like a design feature which is very clever then we've got sort of wheel arches here which come out quite a bit very reminiscent of the id3 of course built on the same platform and they come around here to these cooper wraparound rear lights we have a little spoiler here which comes down and the rear window is quite small similar to id3 there's plenty of visibility for the rear of the cooper ball we've got this fantastic design it continues into the back we've got this light bar which is a sign of electric car which i love a light bar they look amazing we've got the cooper logo with this carbon fiber background we've got the cooper logan these beautiful copper accents which i really love we've got an interesting design down the side here and then we've got this diffuser which is body colored which looks really really good it's really really cohesive design which i really really like let's have a look at space in the rear so we got 385 liters of space at the back of the cooper born we've got plenty of tether points and hooks where you can attach stuff to this has got folding 60 40 seats and we've got a pass-through as well i can't put the seats down unfortunately from here but i can do it from the inside we've got a lip here which is there and we've got some sort of protection on the inside here we also can have the option of a 12-volt socket as well so you can charge at the back let's put these seats down so just you can see the space going through and there we go you can see now in its split mode and also with the seats fully down so it's not quite level but there's lots of space here to fit lots of luggage in the back so 385 liters here and then we got the extra storage space in front of it as well so a very practical spacious stylish comfortable ev with little handles here that you can use to pull down and close it so you don't get your hand dirty in the winter i've partnered with exchange my car to give you a great deal on your car you can get a price for your car or part exchange with exchange my car which is the smart way to sell your car with exchange by car they will give you the price that you were quoted as long as you're accurate in your description they'll arrange for somebody to come and collect it on a truck and they will pay you before you let them leave with a car you'll get the money first plus you can pass exchange if you want to against over 80 000 cars from reputable dealers and they will even settle your finance for you and if you have a van you can also trade it in or sell it to exchangemycar.com cooper is a lifestyle and sports brand with a passion for racing you can see that with this design this is designed in barcelona it has that CUPRA flair spanish flair and it's built in germany just like all the other vw cars are on this range on the meb platform so you've got that german build quality and you've got that fantastic passion the powertrain on the cooper reborn uses a 16 000 rpm fully synchronous magnetic motor which is rear-wheel drive across a single speed gearbox and that goes through a rear differential which makes it very very sporty to drive and of course as i mentioned already it's got wider wheels in the id3 which again adds to that sporty feel along with the design the CUPRA born uses a water cooled lithium-ion battery which is located low down in the car to add to that stability and give it a sporty dynamic driving style now we talked about the battery powers but let's talk about the charging this car can do 135 kilowatt fast charging which means seven minutes can add 62 miles of range to this car and you go from five percent to 80 in about 35 minutes if you have a 77 kilowatt hour battery option what about rear space in the back of the cooper board so the first thing these doors open very very wide so that's great if you're trying to get in and out of the car i'm about 178 and i've got quite a lot of space above my head here this is very spacious it's quite upright in the back like the ied3 we've got this beautiful dynamic alcantara suede finish on these seats at the back the interior of this car is all recycled materials we've got suede alcantara plastics all feel really really nice and it's also delivered to the dealer with net carbon zero emissions which is great to know as well in terms of space here we've got these sport seats at the front these bucket seats which i love which look amazing which we'll look at in a minute at the front they do have pockets here we have two usb type cs down here to charge your phone we've got no climate control on the back we have a large enough rear pocket in the rear door to put a small bottle in and then we've got a pull down center console with two cup holders and this is a split way so you can pull down the middle here with this pass-through and put stuff through from the back and like i said it's 60 40 split folding rear seats as well so it's very very spacious at the back if you have the option to go for the glass roof i would recommend it i think glass roofs add a lot to cars and make them feel more spacious and just nicer to be in and that is the only thing if you have that choice as an option not available now but if it becomes a choice to add that then i would certainly do that let's talk about the interior of the cooper board now i think one thing that cooper do really really well is interiors it is super super modern and fashionable and sporty inside this car from the beautiful steering wheel which is flat bottomed which has got perforated leather which has got the copper cooper logo which i love and then of course we've got our capacitive touch buttons on the steering wheel some people have issues with them they work well ferraris have them so you know i'll survive if you'll be fine we've got our little five inch display here which gives us our driving information our lane assists what gear we're in and then we've got our gear selector which just like the id3 is on the side of the center display and for the drivers and you turn it to go into reverse into neutral into the regen braking mode and then press a button at the end to go into park very simple to use and we also head up to display in front of me which i really really like which actually even shows you when you're drifting out of lane by highlighting the lane on the road using the augmented reality head-up display which is very very clever we've got a 12-inch infotainment system on the vw i3 it's 10 inches so this is two inches bigger it's based off the same software it's fine it does what you want you can very easily see what's going on you can go through the modes i personally would use android auto and apple carplay and use google maps it works brilliantly like that having a nice big screen is awesome to adjust climate there are climate controls on the bottom and you can run your finger up and down to turn them on the side and then volumes in the middle so nice and easy to use these are not backlit at night which is the only advantage but you can use the buttons at the top which are on the screen to adjust the climate yes unlike what you may have been told by others there is a button at the top which lets you turn the climate control on and off we've got these widgets in front of us so this takes us straight through the navigation straight through to the media and i can swipe up between radio and then our media here and likewise i can go between here and i can see our recent destinations this will show me any phone calls i've made when the ignition is on which is now i can see our cooper drive modes as well see our air conditioning and we've got our tutorial as well and i can go between the air conditioning like this so i don't need to use these slidey buttons at the bottom here which not everybody likes i can just do it like this and then we've got our car controls here this takes us to our car settings we have driver assist drive profile e-manager background lighting and settings and i love that you can see your driving assistance features here it's an amazing idea but you can do it on the screen we've got a glove box here which is actually quite a small glove box interesting design here we've got space for our connector down here and a small bit of storage there we've got these beautiful dynamic alcantara seats with the little triangle details in them which look fantastic and you can actually feel them as well and these are beautiful bucket seats i really really like these bucket seats i you know all seats should be like these they're beautiful they also have a massage function on this the v3 trim so i was having a massage we're sitting in this car driving over here and then we've got two cup holders we've got a little door here which i can pull down to cover up that area we've got a space for your phone here which can be optioned as wireless charging we've got a cubby which goes a long way down with two usb type-c chargers and you know it's just a very very comfortable place to be we've got enough space with big bottles of water down the side of doors here it's got a very raked windscreen so it feels like you're very far away from the front of the car but because a bonnet drops down very quickly you're not so it's an interesting design choice in terms of materials we've got alcantara here i mean that feels really really nice interesting plastic design here feels really really soft but also has perforated design we've got these cooper style triangles here of course there as well it just it feels very very nice we got our of course ambient lighting inside here as well it's a much higher quality feel and more sporty than you get in the id3 in my opinion it works the same way have when you get in there's a sensor in the seat it knows you're sitting down and then it turns the car on and then you just put it into gear and go it's really really nice interior i like it a lot and it is definitely a more sporty feeling car than the ied3 right now based on my exterior interior this is a better car and i would recommend it over the id3 in terms of price they are very similarly priced but uh i think this is just a step up and it's better all around in my opinion in the cooper born so this is the 204 horsepower car with around 264 miles of range you can do zero to 60 in about 7.3 seconds with a 58 kilowatt hour battery and this is the v3 trim so it means it's got the massage seats it's got the wireless charger and it's got lots of other cool bits as well with the tech pack too so there's lots of technology in this car how is it to drive well this is as i mentioned a rear wheel drive ev just like the ied3 and just like the ied3 it's got a 16 000 rpm fully synchronous rear motor driven through the one speed gearbox and there is a rear differential to make it more sporty now let's try out range mode first so this is range mode i'm going along i'm accelerating fine it's comfortable nice and relaxing to drive in this this mode is designed to maximize my range or he gets close to that 260 miles as i can do if i go into comfort mode i can definitely feel the suspension getting a bit softer there's a bit more it just feels more relaxing to drive in comfort mode now if we go into performance mode i immediately can feel that acceleration if i put my foot down i can accelerate and it definitely feels a lot more fun in the corners there's a bit of a kick out at the back you can kind of feel the back moving which is obviously what you want from a rear-wheel drive car although you know you're not going to be wanting for any grip in this car there we go that's a lot of fun going through that corner there we've got the acceleration we've got the power we've got the different modes in terms of actual driving the steering wheel fantastic i love the steering wheel i love the CUPRA steering wheels they're really really really good don't forget this starts at around 33 000 and seven hundred pounds and so i think it's really good value we've got our head up display with the augmented reality now one other cool thing is even though i'm running android auto on here right now it is showing me my directions on the head-up display and in the main driver display this is quite unusual it's not giving me the augmented reality directions which i need to use a built-in system for but it is showing me directions on here which is very very unusual and it's good the car manufacturers doing this obviously with wireless android auto and carplay this car has got the latest tick too as i drive along over bumps in the road speed bumps i don't feel a lot of shaking i feel quite stable i'm slowing down now and you know just very very comfortable i've got really good visibility out the front window here because it's very wide window and like i mentioned even though the window is quite large quite long i feel like i'm the pilot in the airplane i know that exactly where the front of the car is because it is a small bonnet and it's not got a long way to go down there so that's pretty great to know that you have that reassurance with that if we're talking about the driver assistance features i've now turned on the adapter cruise control and the lane assist and i'm setting my speed for 30 miles an hour and i'm getting the information in that display in the middle and also on the head-up display telling me still tell me where i'm going still giving my directions also telling me where i am on the road in terms of the adaptive cruise control i can see it in the head up display to the distance to the car in front and my speed so very straightforward and easy to understand i think having a car which kind of shrinks around you and makes you feel very confident in its capabilities you know where it is on the road you know when you turn the steering wheel i mean the steering is pretty precise as well you know that is going to go where you want it is a really beneficial thing to do and then we haven't talked about the camera we've got a great reversing camera nice clear easy to see what's going if you option the tech pack l then you get your reverse assistant as well and you get an even better camera system so there's a lot to like and what about these seats these seats not only do they look good but they're incredibly comfortable i've got my ability to control them and get them exactly how i want because they're 12 way adjustable with a massage function so i can turn the massage function on now i'll do that i tried it earlier and it is a really quite strong massage function you really really feel it that's great to have that functionality when you're driving also be good if you're charging the car you can give yourself a massage while you're sitting there at the charger not that it will take very long because we know this car can add about 60 miles in about 10 minutes seven minutes something like that so it charges pretty quickly if as long as it's 135 kilowatt fast charger and if you're on the 77 kilowatts our battery which gives you the faster charging as well and the question might come up how does this compare to a tesla so i've driven in a lot of evs you can see them on my channel i've been in ev trucks i've been in luxury saloons and the range on the top 77 kilowatt hour battery of over 330 miles is very very good it's more than most people will ever need in all honesty and then you can charge the car fast as well i think that as an all-round package this is a really really good car i'm here at marshall CUPRA in oxford where they have CUPRA and there is seya and this is one of the first cooper dealers in the uk and it's very unique and it's special there's a lot of cool things going on here we obviously have two CUPRAs here we have a layout estate here behind me or behind the camera is a born and then in this corner of the room we have the CUPRA wall with the CUPRA logo and we've got a really nice relaxed vibe in this dealership so i really appreciate them lending me a board for me to do a video today please come and check them out if you're after one as well they're really friendly and knowledgeable and it's a great place to come what's my conclusion on the CUPRA born well this is a fantastic ev it's more stylish with better range and available in a more powerful trim as well than other competitors like the vw ied3 it's got a fantastic interior it's got all the latest technology i really really like this car you should definitely check one out please give a visit to marshall say and CUPRA in oxford who loaned me this car definitely give me a like and subscribe for more and if you have any questions let me know down below i also have an infotainment video on this car coming so check that out as well if you want to know how that works thank you very much everyone!
2022-03-28 01:16
