Every now and again, someone does something mad and you’ve just got to stand back and admire them for
it. I’m not talking about mad in the Cape Fear sense, or the Charge of the Light Brigade or something like that – more the kind of madness, if that’s what it is, that drove people to climb Everest or discover America. Insert joke of choice here.
It’s not quite in the same league as those world-class feats of boldness. But someone, somewhere looked at the Cupra
Formentor and said ‘let’s turn it into an offroader.’ And then the people he said it to, rather than making some tired comment about answering a question nobody had asked, said yeah, alright, let’s. So they did.
The someone, at least at a corporate level, is JE Design. The company is German, as are so many of the most visionary tuners and modifiers, and it specialises in VW Group vehicles, specifically VW itself, Audi and Seat. Cupra is Seat’s stand-alone premium performance brand, not unlike what Lexus is to Toyota in terms of luxury.
JE says its main focus is ‘styling in the aerodynamic sector using synthetic materials that are manufactured using the methods of vacuum forming, injection moulding and foam plastic technology.’ Got that? We think it means they make
body kits. But there’s a lot more than just a mere body kit to this bad boy.
Read the full article in the February issue of Overlander 4×4 –
