- Plenty of room for five
- Front space is particularly impressive
- Boot is wide and well-shaped
Step inside the Cupra Formentor and you’ll discover a plush, well-built and spacious cockpit, with seating for five. There’s ample headroom in the front and plenty of rearward travel for the seats. Oddments storage is also impressive, more than fulfilling its role as a family-friendly SUV. Rear bench occupants have plenty of legroom and headroom, too, despite what looks like a plunging roofline from outside.
The wide boot stows 420 litres of luggage on most models. This is a bit confusing: the entry-level 150hp petrol model will actually carry more luggage (450 litres) thanks to its more compact rear axle, while the Formentor E-Hybrid manages a smaller 345 litres because the 13kWh lithium-ion battery eats up the space under the boot floor.
In reality, we found the Formentor a practical companion for family duties. There's good access to the boot and we were able to drop the rear seats to create a flat boot floor that would swallow a child's mountain bike and other clobber familiar to parents up and down the land.
It's well thought through, although we're not sure about the part-leather floor mats on higher-trim models. They mark easily and look scruffy really quickly in a typically muddy British winter.
