Cupra has built a physical version of its crowd-designed metaverse concept, the DarkRebel. It made its debut at the 2023 Munich Motor Show – and CAR magazine has all the...
variant is on the way, boasting more than 600bhp and a 100kWh battery pack. You can call us excessive, but if we were going to build a fancy electric sports car, we’d take that as our starting point.The DarkRebel is part shooting brake, part sports car and – dare we say it – part. Take another look at the front and rear shots and tell us you disagree. Cupra’s plan was to challenge the norms of car design and we think it’s achieved that.
For all its madness, though, the DarkRebel still retains aspects of Cupra’s sensible, road-going design language. Like the Tavascan, , it has a triple-triangle headlight signature – only here, the lights perforate through the car’s metal body. That long bonnet also has central spine, which is a nod the same feature running through the production-spec Tavascan’s cabin.As wild as the exterior. Cupra’s focus for the cabin was light.
The DarkRebel’s steering wheel takes inspiration from the worlds of gaming and racing. It an upside-down yoke shape, , while its buttons have a similar layout to those on a PlayStation controller.