SEAT’s sizzling hot hatch

SEAT launches its fastest-ever production car – a Leon SC CUPRA 280 fitted with new Ultimate Sub8 Performance Pack.

The ‘Ultimate Sub8 Performance Pack’ can now be specified on all new Leon SC CUPRA 280 orders.

Priced at £4,200, the pack includes 30mm larger brakes with Brembo calipers, Michelin Sport Cup 2 tyres, body coloured side skirts, multi-spoke alloys in black or orange, plus a series of weight reduction measures.

SEAT claims its four-seater undercuts its closest rival, the Mégane Renaultsport 275 Trophy-R, by up to £7,000.

Specifying the Ultimate Sub8 Performance Pack on a Leon SC CUPRA 280, costing £27,210 in manual guise, brings the price to £31,410.

SEAT says that’s £5,020 less than its closest direct rival, the two-seater Mégane Renaultsport 275 Trophy-R at £36,430, or closer to £7,000 by the time the latter’s Performance Brake pack, electric door mirrors and satellite navigation extras are thrown into the equation.