{"id":353399,"date":"2026-05-07T17:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/first-drive-in-the-new-cupra-born-more-than-just-a-compact-electric-sports-model\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:02:52","slug":"first-drive-in-the-new-cupra-born-more-than-just-a-compact-electric-sports-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/first-drive-in-the-new-cupra-born-more-than-just-a-compact-electric-sports-model\/","title":{"rendered":"First drive in the new Cupra Born: more than just a compact electric sports model?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/first-drive-in-the-new-cupra-born-more-than-just-a-compact-electric-sports-model.jpg' alt='electrive'><br \/>The VW ID.3 and Cupra Born are kindred spirits, using the same technology and built together in Zwickau. Until now, the Born mainly looked more athletic without actually being more dynamic. With the facelift, Cupra has sharpened the Born \u2013 in both design and technology. Whether this allows the Born to stand out from the ID.3 Neo becomes clear in first driving impressions.  <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/05\/07\/first-drive-in-the-new-cupra-born-more-than-just-a-compact-electric-sports-model\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VW ID.3 and Cupra Born are kindred spirits, using the same technology and built together in Zwickau. Until now, the Born mainly looked more athletic without actually being more dynamic. With the facelift, Cupra has sharpened the Born \u2013 in both design and technology. Whether this allows the Born to&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/first-drive-in-the-new-cupra-born-more-than-just-a-compact-electric-sports-model\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":353400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}