Cupra Leon V Sportstourer review: Street appeal

Cupra Leon V Sportstourer review: Street appeal
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Damien O’Carroll
While it would be easy for the cynical among us to suggest that the Cupra Leon V Sportstourer is nothing more than a Volkswagen Golf wagon cosplaying as a cyberpunk shark, given you can’t actually buy a Golf wagon here any more and sharks are cool, there is literally nothing wrong with that.That said, the Leon’s appeal goes deeper than the fact that it shares its underpinnings with an excellent car and looks like an augmented murder machine, as it adds a whole lot more style (admittedly it’s also more polarising &nda...

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