2025 Cupra Formentor & Leon facelifts to debut next month, Terramar & Raval to follow

The facelifted 2025 Cupra Formentor and 2025 Cupra Leon will be unveiled in full on April 29, the brand has confirmed.

Cupra said the updated Formentor and Leon would introduce a “new look and improved performance”, likely mirroring changes applied to the related Volkswagen Golf, Skoda Octavia and Audi A3 in recent months.

Planned revisions will include larger batteries and around 100 kilometres of electric-only range for the Formentor and Leon ‘VZe’ plug-in hybrid models – up from between 58km and 67km in today’s models.

The facelifted Formentor and Leon were first previewed at a Cupra event in June 2022 – one month before the Spanish performance brand launched in Australia with the current pre-facelift models.

Both models will adopt triangle-shaped LED daytime running lights – matching the Tavascan and Terramar – and reshaped front bumpers, which will help to better distinguish the Leon from its Seat twin.

The Formentor will also introduce triangular fog lamps, while both models will receive new alloy wheel designs and other minor exterior revisions.

Another new Cupra set to make its full debut later this year is the VW Tiguan-sized (and based) Terramar mid-size hybrid SUV, which will be the brand’s last internal-combustion vehicle.

It will be based on the same MQB Evo underpinnings as the Leon and Formentor – and built in Hungary alongside the next-generation Audi Q3 with four-cylinder mild-hybrid and plug-in hybrid powertrains.

Cupra said the Terramar will be unveiled in September at the Americas Cup sailing competition being held in Barcelona, Spain.

A facelift to the Cupra Born electric hatchback will also be unveiled later this year, while the small Cupra Raval electric city car – set to be built in Spain alongside the Volkswagen ID.2 and Skoda Epiq – will commence production in 2025.

Cupra Australia has confirmed the electric Tavascan – unveiled in April 2023 – and the hybrid Terramar will arrive here in the first half of 2025, followed by the more-powerful Born VZ later next year.

The facelifted Born, Formentor and Leon are not due to arrive in Australia until later in 2025 or early 2026.

It’s possible the facelifted Leon line-up could expand to include the Sportstourer hot wagon, which is remains under local evaluation. It would likely be centred around VZe PHEV and VZx AWD models – and would indirectly replace the recently-discontinued VW Golf R wagon.

Cupra CEO Wayne Griffiths confirmed the small Raval EV – previewed by the UrbanRebel concept in 2022 – will arrive in Australia at the end of 2025.