2017 Toyota C-HR 1.8 Hybrid Review

Toyota's rival Nissan Qashqai interesting to look at and sit in, though largely forgotten to push

This is a Toyota C-narrated and, well, far be it from me to get You a radar ping pedantry, but if you are going to call the cars ' coupé, high-rider ', then you might expectan element of accuracy in the second that statement. But, well, this is the world of post facts, or so The Guardian keep reminding me, so let's allow Toyota some poetic license. C-HR, effective that major new five-door hatchback, has a swooping rear window and sit wide hand higher than the hatchback Auris himself. But the SUV does not GT86.

You remember the Auris hatchback, right? Come on, you do. Replaced Corolla? Compete against the Ford Focus, Volkswagen Golf, that sort of thing? Not? Well, anyway, you can still buy one, just not many people do, then the terms, I suppose, to something else. Something shaped crossover, because if you want the new hatchbackto sell in Europe, then today you will need to make what we used to think was a niche one.

C-HR precisely is one of them. Toyota expects to sell no less than 100,000 of them a year in Europe, which is the only market in which Toyota initially thought it was going to sell the car, before other areas got see it and demand it, too. So C-HR will sell in Japan and other parts of Asia, and before long the other areas as well. Crossover is, effectively, a new hatch global families.

None of the markets, though, will the C-HR is offered with anything other than gasoline or electric propulsion. Even at Toyota, this is a bit surprising but probably should not be. Toyota long ago decided that a combination of gasoline and electricity-then, further, hydrogen and electricity-is the future, since it is predicted that althoughCO2 emissions is the factor that was most affected by the new law, the situation is not that cars will last forever. Quality – particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and so on-which will replace the CO2 as a major concern facing lawmakers, although non-end fears of global warming. Residents of the town of Trump's polar bear, in other words. I think they have a better lawyer.

C-HR, then, comes with either 1.2-litre turbocharged petrol engine (£ 20,995-£ 27,995), which can push the front wheels via a six-speed manual gearbox or, when mated to a continuously variable transmission (CVT), can push the front wheels or all four wheels (it's a crossover, innit). Or can there be in front-wheel drive with 1.8-litre petrol-electric drivetrain (£ 23,595-£ 27,995) that you will find in the latest of the Toyota Prius, the architecture of C-HR also share.

What's it like?

4.36 meters long, C-HR is more or less the same length as the Nissan Qashqai. (OwnToyota RAV4 gets a little bigger this time around to make room for it in the range.)That C-HR has some funky surfacing and slanted rear window means that it's not quite as big as the Qashqai in. With the seat up, the Qashqai has 430 litre boot to C-HR 377 liters, but you can accommodate adults behind adults comfortably, though rising rear window line makes the back seat C-HR felt quite claustrophobic.

It doesn't happen in the future, where not only scuttle is relatively low (thanks to a platform that is designed for the lowish Center of gravity) but also some nasty radicalstyling, if you come from another Toyota. To be honest, it is very difficult to think that the Auris and C-HR can come from the same company. Pleasingly finished, too. Simply beautiful, in fact. What did we do to deserve this?

Into Europe, apparently, by our insatiable demand for good things. Which design work has been done, and most of the chassis development, too, including several stints in the United Kingdom but mostly in the streets around the Eifel mountains, for Toyota, like most automakers, have basic techniques near some songs or more basedaround there.

For driving, then? Well, C-HR is one of those cars where it is useful to create as many complete records when you're driving, because if not you are driving impressions of a whole lot of ' good '. In fact, even with copious notes, it's not far off that it has.Toyota does not monitor the feedback from customers about the dynamics, partly because it is difficult to solve the layman to the technique, but mostly because of Toyota buyers don't care.

They wouldn't be here, either. Toyota says the performance of the C-HR would likeequivalent to the C-segment hatchback ' good '. I'm not sure if any one of them. AVauxhall Astra, perhaps? Hyundai i30? Something that is not a high aim, an

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