Weird-Looking Seat Leon Cupra Prototype Suggests Faster Version Is On The Way

Our spies caught a prototype of the Seat Leon Cupra roaming around, featuring wider front fenders and no camouflage at all.

With the regular Seat Leon having already received a mild facelift about a month ago, we are left waiting for the range-topping Cupra to get the same updates. Reports say that the hot Spanish hatch will get 300hp out of its retuned turbocharged 2.0-litre TFSI petrol engine, with some of them even talking about Seat adding AWD on the wagon Cupra ST model.

These photos though show a prototype wearing a set of wider front fenders which could be there to hide a wider track. This feature alone raises many questions about whether Seat is developing an even hotter version of the Leon Cupra or not.

The other difference over the current Leon Cupra models is spotted at the back, with quad exhaust pipes replacing the pair of oval tailpipes the current regular Leon Cupra wears. An even faster Cupra version is not unprecedented for the Spanish brand as they have done it in the past with the original Leon Cupra R model.

Perhaps Seat wants to reignite the battle for the fastest hatch around the Nurburbring with a more focused Leon Cupra but in order to be successful, it must beat first the lap time posted by the VW Golf GTI Clubsport S.

At this point information is very little, with too many questions and far too few answers so we must wait and see if Seat is indeed working on something that exciting. Stay tuned.