T-sport or T cupra?

Well according to Parkers the Sport has 3 bhp more than the Cupra, 180bhp to 177bhp, but I'm guessing other than that it would be the level of trim.

I'll have to guess you are looking at an older Leon (perhaps around 2000 on a X/Y plate) - as this is what i have

I have the Leon 1.8 "20VT Sport"

At the time (Nov 2000) the "20VT Cupra" was the same apart from some extras like leather seats, sat-nav (i think) and some other options like that, but the engine is the same.

Also the last time i looked the sport was one/two groups lower in the insurace lists

Both are on the 180BHP mark and will re-map to around 210/215 easily.

More info would help - why you need to know ??


ta, Dave

i always thought that the sport is what the called the cupra before they used the word 'Cupra' ?!?!?!?!?!

The difference is simply a facelift. Exactly the same car apart from the bumpers, side skirts and wheels.

Originally they produced a Sport, which was followed by the Cupra. The Cupra had electric memory leather seats, plus a few other options over and above the Sport. The Sport continued to be sold alongside the Cupra for a short time before the more expensive Cupra was kind of phased out.

They then made the Sport the Cupra from that point on and made some of the extras that came std on on the original Cupra options, some refer to those later cars as rebadged Sports.

Just a case of SEAT altering it's product specifications, they are still at it today. All about market conditions and costs compared to the competition.

From MY03 onwards the Cupra's were then facelifted with a more aggressive body kit that was originally used on the V6 4WD European model (never sold in the UK).

i have a T sport, but i call it a pre face lift cupra

wisejason said:

The difference is simply a facelift. Exactly the same car apart from the bumpers, side skirts and wheels.

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no mate the sport and early cupra share the same bodys. it was more of a rebadge. came in around the same as the ko3/ko3s and vvt change.

pre 2000 ish may well be badged as a sport, post 2000 ish badged as a cupra.

Nope, only in the U.K. it's called "Cupra".
Rest of the world it goes under the name "Top Sport" and later "FR"

Same car, different name.

i have a 2000 cupra, on the log book it says cupra sport, black trim bumpers etc, app engine code with ko3 turbo, no vvt, no electric seats but has got a 6 cd changer

drvince said:

Nope, only in the U.K. it's called "Cupra".
Rest of the world it goes under the name "Top Sport" and later "FR"

Same car, different name.

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Exactly,

Here in Ireland we never got the cupra, all cars sold up until 2005 were t-sports. The fr's followed after that.

I have a 2003 cupra that I imported from the UK, it's labeled as t-sport on the data sticker in the boot

devin13 said:

i have a 2000 cupra, on the log book it says cupra sport, black trim bumpers etc, app engine code with ko3 turbo, no vvt, no electric seats but has got a 6 cd changer

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SNAP - the CD changer, but i soon cured that problem!

danny20vt said:

SNAP - the CD changer, but i soon cured that problem!

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you got rid of it? or didnt have it lol? i debadged mine and and my wheels arrive monday imin the process of trying to find the lcr kit

mine didn't have one, so i put a CD headunit in, mine also only came with SEAT and LEON badges! really stealth