The does-it-all Formentor proved hugely popular when new - how does it measure up secondhand?
Fast, good handling, spacious, well built, and a dose of ‘premium’What do the phrases ‘all rounder’, ‘versatile’ and ‘do-it-all’ mean to you? If they conjure up an unpleasant whiff of compromise, well, we understand that. Anything that’s been designed to perform well across a wide range of areas can easily end up being bang average in every one of those areas.
The name was taken not, as it might sound, from a beer bottle, but from a rather lovely part of Majorca. You’d only have to go to the bother of explaining that to your neighbour if they had any idea that it was a Formentor in the first place. Chances are they wouldn’t, because of the aforementioned lack of badges. Then again, many of them wouldn’t know what a CUPRA was either.
The VZ3 had all the VZ2 stuff plus Brembo brakes and a choice of copper/black Exclusive wheels. The range-topping Edition had ‘Sport’ black/copper wheels and a panoramic sunroof. The seats in the top-spec cars were in petrol blue or black leather, both with copper-coloured stitching, which looked better than it sounded.
Annoyingly however we can’t do that, because a decision was made to keep the 2.5-litre, five-cylinder, 390hp/354lb ft, 0-62-in-4.2 seconds, Drift Modey VZ5 off the UK market. You could put your name down for one of the ten VZ5s that were going to be allowed into the UK at the sterling equivalent of 61,000-odd euros, but none of them would be right-hand drive, so today we’ll be looking at the somewhat more numerous and therefore easier to find 306hp 2.
Fuel consumption for the 310s tended to be in the high 20s but figures in the low 30s were quite easily achievable and acceptable enough given the performance. You wouldn’t get much better numbers in a basic 1.5. A Stage 1 remap on the 310 would reputedly take the power to over 400hp. Typical fixed-price servicing costs for Formentors over 2 years old are £219 for a minor and £349 for a major . Some say that the Formentor 310 drove like an enlarged Golf R.
The Formentor did well on safety, its five-star Euro NCAP rating including a 93 per cent score for adult occupant protection and 88 per cent for child passenger protection. The 310 could tow a braked trailer weighing up to 2 tonnes. Towbar installation was around £800.
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