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http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2016/02/2017-toyota-c-hr-leaked.html
Pictures of Toyota’s new subcompact crossover have leaked online before its debut in a few days time at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show.

The C-HR is based on Toyota’s new TNGA modular architecture, which was first used on the latest Prius. Details on the crossover’s powertrain are still in the dark, though Toyota has confirmed that a hybrid version will be offered when it launches.

Competitors for the new C-HR include the Nissan Juke, Mazda CX-3, Jeep Renegade Honda HR-V and Chevy Trax. The model was originally planned as a Scion, but the entire Scion brand was killed off before the C-HR arrived.

Toyota C-HR sales are supposed to start in early 2017.
 
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#12 ·
Looks like interior volume will be more useful than the Juke, at least along the wheel base. Rear seats will likely be useless to adults like everything else in this class and even some other CUVs like the CX5. That really sharply raked rear window though could cause issues, doesn't seem like it'd have anymore cargo room than a Prius or IM due to the low height, hope they reconsider that. Decent looking car overall, especially when the production model will likely tone down the bulged out proportions, though until then I still really like the Honda. That said as ugly as the Juke is I think I could tolerate owning one.
 
#15 ·
Hi All,

New poster here. I dig the C-HR because its so close to the concept versions of the car. If there's one thing I'm hoping for its that the car actually get something with more guts. The mini crossover class really needs something more unique and I hope this one gets the RAV4's hybrid powertrain and not the Prius's ! That could really turn things upside down and if it comes through on the sporty end this could essentially be best in class unless you need cargo space then you need to go HR-V or Crosstrek.
 
#21 ·
If they offer the 8ARFTS in it that would be cool though I figure they'd use a smaller turbo-four for the gas-only model. we'll see tomorrow what comes. The RAV4 Hybrid powertrain could make the C-HR a big threat, giving great fuel economy and good power to boot. The only thing I can't see it winning is cargo space lol I still think it looks cool.
 
#22 ·
Toyota C-HR Crossover Revealed with Prius Power


http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2016/03/toyota-c-hr-crossover-revealed-with-prius-power.html
Toyota's new C-HR crossover has been fully revealed at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show.

The C-HR is based on the new TNGA modular platform which was introduced with the new Prius. Like that car, the C-HR will be available with the latest 1.8 hybrid system that makes 122 horsepower and produces 90 g/km of CO2. For those who aren’t interested in the hybrid, a 1.2-liter turbocharged four-cylinder with 155 hp will also be available, mated to either a six-speed manual or a CVT.

Toyota also says a larger 2.0-liter engine will also be available in select markets, though they did not elaborate on which those would be. The U.S. tends to always get the largest engine options, so it wouldn’t be surprising if the small 1.2-liter stays in Europe while the 2.0-liter comes to the U.S. This bigger option is mated exclusively to a CVT.

To go along with its sporty coupe style, Toyota claims that the C-HR’s low center of gravity and multi-link rear suspension will make the crossover fun to drive. It was developed on European roads, as the car’s chief engineer wanted to replicate the driving style of Europeans, which he says is much less stop and go then other places in the world.

Toyota’s safety sense system will be offered with the C-HR, which includes a pre-collision system, lane departure warning, road sign assist, automatic headlights, pedestrian detection and adaptive cruise control.

The crossover will be built at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey, the first time that a hybrid vehicle has been built in that country.
Prius motor confirmed (2ZR-FXE)...we'll see what the gas motor we get will be.
 
#37 ·
My '94 pickup... dead stop plus maybe 5 seconds after pushing the clutch in for reverse or it would "make hamburger" as my grandmother used to say when grandpa ground the gears in the old CJ3.
1st gear, I could usually apply gentle pressure around 10mph and it would drop in without grinding.

That one was fun to practice speed shifting, though honestly, I never felt that faster than just applying a small amount of pressure, stabbing the clutch and rev matching.
 
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthew...-even-weirder-with-new-c-hr-suv/#3258e2ef3b86
Toyota is about to get weird, but in a good way.

The Japanese automaker’s traditionally conservative car designs have been getting increasingly offbeat — witness the Mirai fuel-cell vehicle and latest Prius hybrid.

A new small SUV called the C-HR is about to take the weirdness even further. That’s partly because — unlike those two alternative-fuel vehicles, the Mirai and Prius — it will bring Toyota’s curiously strange aesthetic into the mainstream.

But there are other reasons too.

“It’s got four doors and a hatch, but it’s not a hatchback,” said Andrew Gilleland, vice president of Scion, at the unveiling of the concept version of the C-HR in the fall. “It’s large, with room for five, but it’s not an SUV. And it’s got a fast-sloping roofline, but it’s not a sports car.”

In short, the C-HR is the next step in the ongoing evolution of the so-called crossover SUV, one that moves it further away from the “U” (where there is no pretension of off-roading “utility”) and closer to the “S” (where that letter stands not only for “sport” but “style”).

Basically, this car is meant to appeal to urban hipsters. Unlike the bland Toyotas of the past, its body is full of creases and complex shapes, reminiscent of origami.

“No more boring Toyotas,” declared Karl Schlicht, executive vice president of sales functions with Toyota Motor Europe, after unveiling the European production version of the C-HR at the Geneva auto show.

“This shows that we have the capability and the desire to change our design language and be more aggressive, polarize, not try to be kind of vanilla for everyone,” Schlicht said. “If that upsets a few people, that’s ok. We also want people to love the brand.”

Schlicht emphasized that the design of the production car has changed little from the concept version, a departure from Toyota’s past practices. Flashy styling at the concept phase was invariably dulled down for the production version of its vehicles.

The pursuit of emotional appeal has been ramping up for years now, thanks to sweeping changes instituted by president and chief executive Akio Toyoda, a staunch car enthusiast. He is all about making Toyota vehicles less appliance-like and more fun to drive. (Read about the design-led transformation within Toyota and its luxury brand Lexus, here.)

The C-HR is the latest in that endeavor and, arguably, will take the company the farthest out of its comfort zone as it has ever been.

“C-HR stands for ‘compact’ size with ‘high ride’ height, and much to our customers’ delight, it’s kind of weird,” Gilleland said of the concept version when it was unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November. “It doesn’t fit neatly into any category, and that’s exactly why we and our customers think it’s perfect.”

The C-HR will be built with the Toyota New Global Architecture, or TNGA for short. It is the second Toyota to use this platform, with the latest version of the Prius being the first.

Toyota boasts that its new architecture is lighter and stronger than ones it will replace and allows for more interior space in its vehicles. It’s also modular, enabling Toyota to drastically reduce the number of platforms it uses across its product portfolio. The company expects that TNGA will underpin half the vehicles it sells by 2020.

Crucially, this new platform allows for a lower center of gravity, which aids in creating sporty driving dynamics, an attribute that is now a priority for nearly every Toyota vehicle, executives say.

To that same end, Toyota also has been touting a specially designed rear suspension that is designed to make vehicles feel sporty and responsive. The suspension debuted on the new Prius and will be adapted for the C-HR.

“When the C-HR goes on sale in the U.S., we expect it to appeal to people who want a high-style, high-function, great-handling vehicle at a value price,” Gilleland said.

A Scion logo was on the hood of the C-HR concept when it was first shown to the public in L.A. But the Euro-spec production version that debuted in Geneva in March has a Toyota logo instead — evidence of more changes at the Japanese automaker.

Toyota recently announced that it will dissolve its youth-oriented Scion brand, which launched in 2003, and fold some of its vehicles — the iA, iM and FR-S — into the regular lineup starting next year. Part of the reason is because Toyota itself now has enough youthful appeal with its reinvigorated lineup that a separate brand is no longer needed, executives say.

But regardless of what logo is on the hood, the C-HR is poised to take advantage of booming sales in the crossover segment. “The small SUV segment has increased 20 percent in the last year to become the largest segment in the industry,” Gilleland said. “Half of that growth is coming from entry-level SUV models.”

The C-HR that will go on sale in Europe later this year will offer the choice of a new 1.2-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine or a 1.8-liter hybrid system, with either front- or all-wheel drive. A 2.0-liter engine also will be available in some markets.

Toyota has not confirmed what engines will power the U.S. version of the C-HR, nor when it will go on sale.

It will have plenty of competitors in the compact SUV segment, including new entries like the Honda HR-V and Mazda CX-3.
 
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In total, Toyota’s spent two years honing the C-HR on European roads, following three years of R&D back in Japan planning the car. It’s also done at least 150 laps of the Nürburgring (not counting the racing version, which uses mega aero and racing dampers and has a 180bhp 1.6-litre engine).

Toyota GAZOO Racing is due to compete at this year’s Nürburgring 24 Hours with a racing-spec Toyota C-HR crossover as one of its three entries on the weekend of May 28th.

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2016/01/20/toyota-gazoo-announces-race-spec-c-hr-for-n24.html



Toyota is considering a performance version to create a Nissan Juke Nismo rival.

The new model, which has been mooted by C-HR lead engineer Hiro Koba, would act as a rival to the likes of the Nissan Juke Nismo and allow Toyota to compete in the emerging and profitable market for hot crossovers.

Speaking to Autocar, Koba said a performance C-HR wasn’t “concretely” in Toyota’s plans but “I am pushing to make such a car. I need to get approval”.

Toyota senior manager Rembert Serrus added: “The car lends itself to it. It would be possible, but it depends on how much we have to change. A sports version could be a minor change or it could be a new project. A sports version would make a lot of sense.”

Koba has already piloted a racing version of the C-HR and it’s known that the car will compete at the Nürburgring 24 Hours endurance event next month. Autocar understands that public reaction to that car will heavily inform the business case for producing a performance version of the road-going C-HR.

The racing C-HR is powered by a turbocharged 1.5-litre petrol engine with around 178bhp. A similar engine could well be used in the road car, and Koba has hinted he’d like to see more powerful variants of the C-HR launched. Some of the racing car’s less obtrusive aerodynamic bodywork could also be carried over.

It’s highly likely any performance version of the C-HR would also include uprated brakes and suspension, as well as heavier steering and a modified interior.

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/hot-toyota-c-hr-under-consideration-0

 
#47 ·
I agree this looks cool.

I rented a turbo Juke last year and it drove spasmodically. Turbo lag for days.

Not enough power to get to 25 mph without the turbo kicking in, and when it did, it seemed to go WOT. A herky, jerky, horrible driving experience with crappy in town fuel efficiency.

I rented a Ford Kuga diesel 2.0 just a few months after that and was astonished at how good the concept could be executed.

I hope Toyota builds something better. I suspect they will.
 
#49 ·
Toyota Starts C-HR Production In Turkey


http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/20...ction-turkey-surging-subcompact-cuv-category/
Bound for its North American production reveal at the Los Angeles Auto Show next week, production of the Toyota C-HR began today in Sakarya, Turkey.

The C-HR becomes the eighth vehicle built by Toyota in Europe and the third model built by Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey. The C-HR also joins a booming subcompact crossover segment that’s grown nearly 30 percent in the United States this year.

It’s a segment that now produces 3 percent of the U.S. auto industry’s volume, triple its share from just two years ago.

As new candidates join the fold, the overall segment grows its volume because existing nameplates tend — at least so far — to lose very little volume to the intruders.

Whether that will be true of the Toyota C-HR remains to be seen, of course. We don’t yet know its precise specifications, price point, or the breadth of Toyota’s marketing campaign.

But Toyota is a huge force in America’s SUV/crossover arena. The 4Runner, Highlander, Land Cruiser, Sequoia, and top-selling RAV4 grew their collective U.S. volume to 536,334 sales through the first ten months of 2016, a 12-percent increase for a quintet that now accounts for three-in-ten Toyota brand sales.

The RAV4 is America’s second-best-selling utility vehicle.

The Highlander is America’s second-best-selling three-row vehicle.

The 4Runner is America’s second-best-selling body-on-frame SUV.

At Toyota’s upmarket Lexus division, the RX is America’s best-selling premium utility vehicle, and by a wide margin.

There is therefore plenty of reason to believe that Toyota can succeed in yet another utility vehicle category.

The Toyota C-HR exits a 5,000-employee Turkish factory that will now build 280,000 vehicles per year, nearly double the factory’s output prior to the C-HR era thanks to a €350 million ($384 million) investment. Toyota says the C-HR goes down the same line as the Corolla and Verso, although the C-HR is the first Toyota built outside Japan on the new TNGA architecture that underpins the latest Prius.

In order for the Toyota C-HR to reproduce RAV4esque dominance, the new Toyota will need to surpass the steadily growing Subaru Crosstrek (an admittedly large, but still sub-Forester, “subcompact”), the top-selling Jeep Renegade, and GM twins from Buick and Chevrolet that jointly hold 29 percent of the category, tops among any manufacturer.

Incidentally, with the market’s 6-percent slide in October, the rate of growth achieved by America’s subcompact crossover slowed notably just as Toyota readied production of the C-HR. While segment-wide sales rose 33 percent through the first three-quarters of 2016, October volume rose just 2 percent, year-over-year.
 
#51 ·
Autocar: 2017 Toyota C-HR 1.8 Hybrid review








http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/toyota/c-hr/first-drives/2017-toyota-c-hr-18-hybrid-review
What is it?

It’s the Toyota C-HR. And, well, far be it from me to get your pedantry radar pinging, but if you’re going to call a car a ‘coupé, high-rider’, then you might expect an element of accuracy within both of those statements. But, well, this is a post-fact world, or so The Guardian keeps reminding me, so let’s allow Toyota some poetic licence. The C-HR, effectively its new mainstream five-door hatchback, does have a swooping rear window and sits a hand width higher than its own Auris hatchback. But a GT86 SUV it ain’t.

You remember the Auris hatchback, right? Go on, you do. Replaced the Corolla? Competes against the Ford Focus, Volkswagen Golf, that sort of thing? No? Well, anyway, you can still buy one, only not many people do, hence the requirement, I suppose, for something else. Something crossover-shaped, because if you want a new mainstream hatchback to sell in Europe, then these days you’ll need to make what we used to think was a niche one.

The C-HR is precisely one of those. Toyota expects to sell no fewer than 100,000 of them a year within Europe, which is the only market where Toyota initially thought it would sell the car, before other regions got a look at it and demanded it, too. So the C-HR will sell in Japan and other parts of Asia, and before long other regions as well. A crossover is, effectively, the new global family hatch.

In none of those markets, though, will the C-HR be offered with anything other than petrol or electric propulsion. Even in a Toyota, this is slightly surprising but probably shouldn’t be. Toyota long ago decided that a combination of petrol and electricity – then, further away, hydrogen and electricity – was its future, because it foresaw that although CO2 emissions were the factor that most affected new car legislation, that situation wouldn’t last forever. Air quality – particulates, nitrogen dioxide and so on – are about to replace CO2 as the bigger concern facing legislation makers, despite the non-end to global warming fears. City dwellers trump polar bears, in other words. I suppose they have better lawyers.

The C-HR, then, comes with either a 1.2-litre turbocharged petrol engine (£20,995-£27,995), which can drive the front wheels through a six-speed manual gearbox or, when mated to a continually variable transmission (CVT), can propel either the front wheels or all four wheels (it’s a crossover, innit). Or it can be had in front-wheel drive with the 1.8-litre petrol-electric drivetrain (£23,595-£27,995) that you’ll find in the latest Toyota Prius, whose architecture the C-HR also shares.

What's it like?

At 4.36 metres long, the C-HR is more or less the same length as the Nissan Qashqai. (Toyota’s own RAV4 got a bit larger this time around to make room for it in the range.) That the C-HR has some funky surfacing and that sloping rear window mean that it isn’t quite as large as a Qashqai on the inside. With its seats up, the Qashqai has 430 litres of boot to the C-HR’s 377 litres, but you can seat adults behind adults comfortably, although the rising rear window line makes the C-HR’s back chairs feel quite claustrophobic.

That’s not the case in the front, where there’s not only a relatively low scuttle (thanks to a platform designed for a lowish centre of gravity) but also some wickedly radical styling, if you’re coming from another Toyota. Honestly, it’s hard to think that the Auris and C-HR could come from the same company. It’s finished pleasingly, too. Pretty lovely inside, in fact. What did we do to deserve this?

Be European, apparently, with our insatiable demand for nice things. That’s where the design work has been done, and most of the chassis development, too, including a couple of stints in the UK but mostly on the roads around the Eifel mountains, because Toyota, like most car makers, has an engineering base near some track or other based around there.

To drive, then? Well, the C-HR is one of those cars in which it’s useful to make lot of detailed notes when you’re driving it, because otherwise your driving impressions are a whole lot of ‘fine’. In fact, even with copious notes, it’s not far off that. Toyota doesn’t monitor feedback from its customers about dynamics, partly because it’s hard to decipher layman’s terms into engineering ones, but mostly because Toyota buyers don’t care.

They won’t here, either. Toyota said the C-HR wanted performance on a par with a ‘good’ C-segment hatchback. I’m not sure what one of those is. A Vauxhall Astra, maybe? A Hyundai i30? Something that doesn’t constitute aiming high, anyway. So there’s a tight turning circle, the ride is fine, and the steering is smooth.

The 113bhp 1.2-litre drives through its six-speed manual really sweetly (don’t mention the CVT) but the real action for Toyota will be with the hybrid, accounting for more than 70% of sales. It makes only 97bhp so you’re not looking at a brisk car (0-62mph is 11.0sec), but although the engine is sometimes vocal, Toyota’s clever, compact hybrid system, which constitutes planetary gears so that the electric drive motor and petrol engine can spin at whatever speed the car wants, is wickedly effective, albeit the switch between power modes, and braking modes (regeneration or discs), could be smoother.

Should I buy one?

You should certainly think about buying one. We prefer the sweetness of the 1.2, but there's no denying that the hybrid drivetrain is here just as effective as it is in a Prius. That's no surprise, then. The surprise, instead, is that all of those Prius characteristics come in a package that looks and feels quite as funky as the C-HR, so you look less like an Uber driver and more like somebody with, y’know, an active lifestyle. Which is quite appealing in itself. 


Toyota C-HR
 1.8 Hybrid

Location Madrid, Spain; On sale January 2017; Price £27,995; Engine 4cyls, 1798cc, petrol, plus electric motor; Power 96bhp at 5200rpm; Torque 106lb ft at 3600-4000rpm; Gearbox CVT; Kerb weight 1420kg; 0-62mph 11.0sec; Top speed 105mph; Economy 74.3mpg (combined); CO2/tax band 86g/km, 15%; Rivals Nissan Qashqai 1.6 dCi 130PS Tekna, Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4 Limited Edition
 
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