The new UKVolkswagen Golf R Estate and the CUPRA Leon Estate both combine power with practicality, but which would you choose? 🤔
We should take a moment to appreciate that these fast estates are every bit as quick as a Ferrari F355 from the mid-1990s – a remarkable achievement, considering the two-seat Ferrari was a full-blown supercar with barely any room for luggage.
In short, both feel similarly rapid – but that doesn’t mean there aren’t differences. For example, while both have seven-speed dual-clutch automatic gearboxes that offer rapid-fire shifts once on the move, each car’s is programmed differently. Go for a gap when crawling up to a roundabout in the Golf and acceleration is almost immediate; the Leon often pauses between the accelerator being trodden on and the car surging forwards.
The Leon doesn’t have quite as much grip, either. Drive both cars along a twisting country road and you’ll find it can’t quite keep up. The Leon doesn’t feel as darty as the Golf, either, probably due to the latter’s ‘progressive’ steering, which gets quicker the more lock you apply, so less arm-twirling is needed through tight twists and turns. That’s not to say the Leon feels like a truck, though.
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