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Spanish model Cupra has revealed a hanging idea automotive at this week’s Munich motor present, claimed to be the “embodiment of the model’s imaginative and prescient, and residential to its future design language”.
The Cupra Tindaya is called after a volcanic mountain within the Canary Islands, chosen for its “copper-toned rock” that “echoes the signature of Cupra”.
Measuring 4.72m lengthy and using on large 23-inch wheels, the Cupra Tindaya is a 2+2 high-riding crossover of kinds, boasting aggressive styling that evolves the model’s present design language, in addition to a driver-focused cockpit that’s accessed through reverse-opening facet doorways.
The model’s signature copper accents and triangular lighting motifs have additionally been honed for this new period of design, lacquered with a colour-shifting matte paint end “flowing from deep metallic gray, evoking the close by Atlantic Ocean, to a gentle beige that merges the dry earth and heat tones of the mountain”.
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Along with the trick paint, Cupra’s use of latest and sustainable supplies is echoed inside, the place every occupant is handled to a brand new technology of the model’s ‘CUPBucket’ sports activities seats.
There’s bio-attributable leather-based lining the seats and centre console, whereas the dashboard, door panels, centre console and steering wheel are completed in ‘Ultrasuede nu’ which is a suede materials with a ‘waxed bronze’ metallic sheen.
3D-printed aluminium components are used for inside structural components, very similar to components of the roof panel.
The textured sample of the centre console can be mirrored within the quilting of the bio-leather, which Cupra says reveals the “pulsing, dwelling creature, attentive to each setting and driver”.
Lastly, there’s ‘the Jewel’, a glass prism which “acts as a sensory connection between the driving force and the automotive”. Drivers can use it to toggle drive modes, inside lighting, sound settings, and different “tactile sensations”. Varied glass inside components shimmer with a copper glow, too.
In line with the “No drivers, No Cupra” mantra, the Tindaya’s cabin is driver-centric, and mentioned to be impressed by motorsports.

The ‘Driver Axis’ is Cupra’s identify for the sculpted dashboard design which features a 24-inch freestanding driver’s show. Forward of it’s a racing- and gaming-inspired yoke steering wheel which options satellite tv for pc buttons.
Cupra says the distinctive steering wheel with its lacking high and backside sections “permits all key visuals and shortcuts to stay in clear view”.
The motive force’s display might be configured with totally different ‘Experiences’ to replicate the driving situations and driver’s needs, from a minimalistic ‘Immersive Expertise’ by to an AI-powered ‘Tribe Expertise’ which showcases related content material and 3D-animated driver help system widgets.
“Whereas many transfer away from the driving force, we double down on what issues most – the connection behind the wheel. Our focus will at all times be on the emotion of driving,” mentioned Markus Haupt, interim CEO of Cupra.
“The Cupra Tindaya Showcar just isn’t a dream, not even an ambition. That is our Cupra assertion, and it’s going to be a actuality.”
No particulars of the Tindaya’s powertrain have been talked about within the media launch, although European media shops report the manufacturing mannequin will likely be provided as both an electrical automobile (EV) or extended-range electrical automobile (EREV), the latter with a mixed driving vary of over 1000km.

The Tindaya might preview the next-generation Formentor, which was the primary standalone Cupra design to enter manufacturing – the Ateca and Leon, for instance, had been SEAT merchandise first.
Previewed as a near-production idea in 2019 after which subsequently put into manufacturing in 2020, the Cupra Formentor will likely be nearing the tip of its life cycle in the course of the latter half of this decade, and being the model’s top-selling mannequin by a good margin it can nearly definitely be renewed for a second season.
The Tindaya’s general form seems to be an evolution of the unique Formentor’s design, and the inside is a extra dramatic model within the new driver-centric format debuted by the bigger Terramar SUV.
Ought to that be the case, anticipate a manufacturing mannequin to be revealed in 2026 or 2027, forward of a 2027-2028 launch. Nonetheless, that’s hypothesis.
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