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Cupra Fomenta Cupra Fomenta

Fomenta? Yeah. I keep reading the badge on the car I'm driving this week, which is

a Cupra Fomenta. As the tormenta, because it almost sounds like either a bad wrestler

or a marital aid. The Cupra tormenta. And I, do you know why I realise, I realise

A, I reckon Cupra have sold more cars than Volkswagen at the last top months, because

I see so many of the bloody things. This is what I was going to say. I've seen loads

of those Cupra Fomentations. Who's buying them? Because it's a very, to my mind, it's

quite a hard car to understand. It is in my mind, as well.

I don't know what it, it's like, for a start, I don't know, this is, this is shoddy,

because I am supposed to be a car journalist, but I have no idea what it costs.

No, more than a Scoda, more than a Volkswagen, and more than a say-at, because it's not

a say-at, obviously, and you mustn't say that. But it is a say-at.

But it is a say-at. So it's sort of meant to be a kind of, is it a crossover, I suppose,

it is, isn't it? Yeah, I think what the tormenta is, and then you've got, but you've got

other, there's other Cupras, isn't there? But this is the only bespoke Cupra, as in,

it doesn't share any body pounds with any other say-at. That's right, yeah. But you know,

I know why, I know why they've sold so many Cupras. I've driven a Leon F-R this week,

which obviously stands for fuck right off. Just the same as the Yamaha F-R80 did when we

were kids, a little shaft drive rival to the Honda Cup. We used to call it the Yamaha

F-R-R80. And I know why, that they're selling so many, I've realized this. It's because

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