A 240 BHP Diesel Cupra would be awesome fun but I can't see this engine trickling down to Seat any time soon, not in time for it to be used on this generation of Leons.
Although I am sure the front wheel drive could cope with the 500Nm, the 184 BHP FR's fitted with DTUK boxes can pull 500Nm (Or there abouts) and I don't hear any complaints there....
It's already been fitted/tested in the Golf estate and I'm sure I read somewhere that Seat themselves have a test mule but at present they aren't sure of whether or not it will be put into production.
Seat might introduce half way through the Leon mk3's product cycle to tempt new buyers or refresh the model line up?
To be fair, a strong diesel will deploy its torque lower in the rev range and more abruptly than a petrol car with the same max torque. We have much more torque off the line than an equivalent petrol car - that's the upside of diesel power. The downside, of course, is that we have to change gear a lot sooner.....
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