Cupra Ateca review: is this the future of the hot hatch?

[#Dobe~ClasSy!☠]

e white Cupra Ateca sits outside, ready to go back to its maker. (No, don’t worry, it’s not being sent off to the scrapheap – just being collected by a friendly chap called Dave so that it can be cleaned and sent back out to another motoring hack). It’s the first day since it arrived that there hasn’t been snow on the ground. Which has made this an interesting week to have such a car in on test.

Because, as the fact this Seat doesn’t wear a Seat badge may have signalled to you, this is the go-faster Ateca; a car that’s very important for Seat, as it spearheads the company’s new sub-brand, Cupra, under which Seat will sell all of its performance models.