My
dealership guy tipped me off to it in March. The
Terramar is suppose to be picking up where it left off. That Skoda factory will be re tooled to make something else. Well it isn't bad for a car to do ten years before they kill the model. The Cupra guise got added to it half way through it, plus or minus two years or so.
The Karoq came out later after the Skoda engineers added their finishing touches to the Spanish blue print they were given from the Spanish design team. Seem to recall six months after the standard
Ateca.The Skoda factory was chosen since it had good production cost figures and capacity. Then subsequent they could make the Cupra
Ateca as the brand split from Seat without designing a completely new body. That was to come later in the
Terramar.
The range of the three SUVs in three sizes for the three brands forgetting Cupra, got weedled down in the latest incarnation of the "ID" EV range. Now we have that fast back, the
Tavascan. Unyx Chinese EV range that seem to be all fast backs, least the VW Unyx 8.
Cupra never saw the
Seat Tarraco, the big brother of the
Ateca. That got killed by Seat as Skoda refreshed the Skoda Kodiaq and didn't build the same model branded as a Seat in the German factory where the
Tarraco and Kodiaq were built. That was the end of the three SUV line up for Seat, weedled down to Arona and
Ateca.
So to me the pretenders to the thrown are the
Terramar taking the Atecas place and the
Tavascan in EV form. The new VW Unyx 8 from the
Tavascan factory could be the big brother if it was re-purposed as a Cupra, that
Tarraco space freeded up. You never know. But then the
Tavascan could be the maxium size Cupra wants to go to. No luxury fast back above the
Tavascan for Cupra. Who knows.
May be the
Terramar might make it to an EV or just stay as an intermediate ICE/hybrid. The new "ID" range of which the Raval is the Cupra offering may be joined by bigger ones. Refreshed. So that refresh cycle may effect the
Tavascan when it's number comes up. Chinese brands spore many more cars than European brands. 10 years is our normal lifestyle with a 5 year refresh. China and America bin models more quickly than we do.
Personally I will be heading towards an EV at some point but there is still a lot of life left in the old
Ateca.
