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With only 70 made, how impossible would it be to find one? Anyone had any experience with them?

lovely cars, i went for the cupra r but to be honest the only difference from them & the cupra is

- uprated brembo brakes
- oz racing wheels
- a more powerful map 180bhp rather than 150

my advice is buy a cupra & add the brakes,why pay more when there is so little difference...its not like you wont do an aftermarket map on it anyway & probably a new turbo.

common issues are coilpack failures & maf sensors...both not too pricey to sort out and you will notice performance issues & dash warning lights.

Also look out for rusted metal under the rear window

The engines are so tuneable though, there are people getting 400+ brake out of the 1.8T lump, the cupra alone is exclusive but an R would be nice.

Good luck with the search

they are a rare beast indeed!
member Moynas' brother had one in yellow i do believe?

It would be cool owning one of the 200 allocated worldwide, even if you can make a Cupra into a Cupra R. I'd be tempted to sell my Polo for one if I saw a good one crop up

I recently just picked up an 02 onvi yellow cupra R after owning my silver Gti and wat can i say wat a car to drive!! as shantybeater stated the only diff is the oz super "T" wheels 180bhp standard over the cupra's 156bhp also the R has stiffened suspension and a volt and oil temp gauges..it you can find 1 i highly recommend you looking into 1

neale are the guages located where the climate control used to be in the polo? the previous owner must have added them on then

Yep thats where they are situated...i thought all R's came wit the gauges as standard as according to the boys on scn

sorry didnt explain that very well, i ment on mine lol

Ah wit you now so you hav them fitted too? does your cupra hav a boost gauge fitted to it?

yup in a pillar, its awesome, mine boosts to like 23 psi which is off the scale!

Thats gon be my 1st mod i think currently eying up a few, too many to choose from tho lol found the pod im needin off nomad goin for the 52mm not too big

yeah its a definately a must,not sure what size mine is, but the acutal gauge itself is the same size as the oil & volt meter's

Lookin more into the defi gauge but thats the expensive route lol...the gauges in my R are 52mm so imagine yours are the same does your boost gauge have the red led in it to match the rest of the dials?

yup, it looks like no expense was spared on sorting the cupra out, all the mod's have been done to a really good standard, i've got reciepts for thousands spent on it!

nice to have one untouched though..especially an R!

How do they compare to the newer Cupra R's? I've driven one of those round a track and it was a blast, interior/dash isn't as nice though