CUPRA LEON ESTATE
A dawn blast along twisting roads can wait no longer
MILEAGE 7801
WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT With sports car pace and dog-friendly space, could this rapid wagon be the ultimate do-it-all daily driver?
Iawoke early on Saturday in a cold sweat to the shuddering realisation that my last 1000 miles in our Cupra Leon had been all but entirely covered on the motorway. No hardship – this is a comfortable and refined tourer – but hardly the point of a thrill-seeking four-wheeldrive hot hatch. So I leapt out of bed and headed for the hills.
The Surrey Hills, to be precise. I’ve found a pretty engaging network of switchbacks around Dorking that tend to be nice and quiet if you get up before the Ranmore ramblers and all the cyclists, and not so atrociously surfaced as to dampen their appeal as a dawn-blast destination.