2017 TOYOTA C-HR. THE CROSSOVER THAT FLOWS THROUGH LIFE

2017 TOYOTA C-HR. THE CROSSOVER THAT FLOWS THROUGH LIFE

Toyota C-HR is visiting UK cities over the coming weeks

2017 Toyota C-HR - With its beautifully sculptured crossover design, responsive and engaging hybrid drive, the all new Toyota C-HR offers complete harmony in active lives. Forget the continual stop-start, it’s time to flow through life at the wheel of the all new Toyota C-HR…

Here you can get the full range of specs, explore the Toyota C-HR interior, watch the Toyota C-HR review video and see all the Toyota C-HR accessories on offer.

Toyota C-HR is visiting UK cities over the coming weeks

Toyota C-HR
5 door Crossover Dynamic
1.2 Petrol Turbo (115 HP)
6 Speed Manual

Dynamic
From £25,495

In addition to Icon grade

    18" black machined-face alloy wheels (5-double-spoke)
    Bi-tone Black Roof
    LED headlights

2017 TOYOTA C-HR. THE CROSSOVER THAT FLOWS THROUGH LIFE


The C-HR isn’t actually on sale yet, so the info on it is limited; read on for what we do know right now. “C-HR” stands for “Coupe – High Rider,” despite its having four doors and riding kind of low for a crossover. Smaller than its corporate sibling the RAV4, it is bigger than the Nissan Juke and should have greater interior room. Toyota isn’t revealing powertrain info, so we are guessing it will have a 2.0-liter four-cylinder, a CVT and front-drive; all-wheel drive will be optional.

 
2017 TOYOTA C-HR. THE CROSSOVER THAT FLOWS THROUGH LIFE

If the exploding subcompact-crossover segment were a party, Toyota would only now be showing up with a Black Eyed Peas CD and a sixer of Smirnoff Ice in hand well after everyone else has passed out. That’s how late Toyota is to this shindig. Kia kicked off the party in 2009 with the boxy, front-drive Soul and a horde of party-boy hamsters. During the introduction of the 2017 Toyota C-HR at the 2016 Geneva auto show, the Japanese automaker acknowledged that it was playing catch-up but made it clear that it’s determined to be the life of the party regardless. Toyota hopes it can stand out from the crowd of sober alternatives with a wild design that invites only one comparison—to the equally outgoing Nissan Juke.
Killer Looks

 

“C-HR” is Toyota’s (slightly) sexier way of saying “Coupe - High Rider” despite the fact that this vehicle has four doors and rides quite low for a crossover. The company did a better job with the styling than the name. The bulging fenders, tapered greenhouse, falling roofline, and rising beltline were originally sketched at Toyota’s California design studio and survived almost entirely intact through two concept iterations that were shown in September 2014 and September 2015. (There also was a Scion version shown last November, as the C-HR was to be sold here under that brand before Toyota killed it off last month.) The styling is the very definition of polarizing. The C-HR is not remotely beautiful, but the busy surfaces and many creases catch shadows and reflect light in such a way as to at least make it interesting to behold. The detail work is equally fussy. The slim LED headlights stretch way back over the peak of the wheel arches, the rear door handles are hiked to the roof, and the taillights could have been lifted from the Honda Civic hatchback that would debut an hour later on the opposite side of Geneva’s Palexpo convention hall.
  
2017 TOYOTA C-HR. THE CROSSOVER THAT FLOWS THROUGH LIFE

If the exploding subcompact-crossover segment were a party, Toyota would only now be showing up with a Black Eyed Peas CD and a sixer of Smirnoff Ice in hand well after everyone else has passed out. That’s how late Toyota is to this shindig. Kia kicked off the party in 2009 with the boxy, front-drive Soul and a horde of party-boy hamsters. During the introduction of the 2017 Toyota C-HR at the 2016 Geneva auto show, the Japanese automaker acknowledged that it was playing catch-up but made it clear that it’s determined to be the life of the party regardless. Toyota hopes it can stand out from the crowd of sober alternatives with a wild design that invites only one comparison—to the equally outgoing Nissan Juke.
Killer Looks
 
2017 TOYOTA C-HR. THE CROSSOVER THAT FLOWS THROUGH LIFE

“C-HR” is Toyota’s (slightly) sexier way of saying “Coupe - High Rider” despite the fact that this vehicle has four doors and rides quite low for a crossover. The company did a better job with the styling than the name. The bulging fenders, tapered greenhouse, falling roofline, and rising beltline were originally sketched at Toyota’s California design studio and survived almost entirely intact through two concept iterations that were shown in September 2014 and September 2015. (There also was a Scion version shown last November, as the C-HR was to be sold here under that brand before Toyota killed it off last month.) The styling is the very definition of polarizing. The C-HR is not remotely beautiful, but the busy surfaces and many creases catch shadows and reflect light in such a way as to at least make it interesting to behold. The detail work is equally fussy. The slim LED headlights stretch way back over the peak of the wheel arches, the rear door handles are hiked to the roof, and the taillights could have been lifted from the Honda Civic hatchback that would debut an hour later on the opposite side of Geneva’s Palexpo convention hall.

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