Toyota C-HR details firm
Two variants, eight colours, customisation options and class-leading safety for Toyota's first compact SUVNew details of Toyota Australia's first-ever small SUV, the C-HR or compact high rider, have been revealed online. The information confirms that Australians will be able to pick from eight colours, six of them available with an optional contrasting roof colour, and that adaptive radar cruise control and AEB will be standard on all models.
Arriving in Australian new car showrooms in February 2017 from around $26,000, the Toyota C-HR will go a long way to changing customers' perceptions about Toyota, chiefly via edgy new designs, premium interior fit-outs and plenty of safety tech fitted as standard.
Powered by an all-new 1.2-litre turbo-petrol engine (85kW/185Nm) hooked up to a continuously variable transmission (CVT), the vehicle will be offered in both front- and all-wheel drive in Australia.
It's claimed to use as little as 5.5L/100km in European testing, which is average fuel economy for a vehicle of this size. There is a hybrid C-HR that's more efficient but it's not coming to Australia.
The entry-level front-drive model will be called the C-HR and will be fitted with a six-speed manual, with the CVT offered as an option. The range-topping C-HR Koba (named after the car's chief engineer) will get the CVT and AWD as standard.
Entry-level C-HR models sold in Australia get a high level of standard features, such as 17-inch alloy wheels, fabric seats, heated and power folding wing mirrors, satellite navigation, front and rear parking sensors, a colour trip computer, a reversing camera, LED daytime running lights, LED fog lights, rain-sensing wipers, a six-speaker stereo and dual-zone climate control.
Advanced safety technology such as automatic high-beam headlights (that automatically dip if they detect another car) radar-based adaptive cruise control (automatic acceleration and braking), blind-spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, lane departure alert and forward collision warning with autonomous emergency braking (AEB) will also be fitted as standard on every C-HR model sold in Australia.
Stepping up to the top-grade C-HR Koba, customers will gain big ticket items such as 18-inch alloy wheels, leather accented seats, keyless entry and engine start, LED headlights and LED brake lights, tinted windows, heated front seats, ambient interior lighting and optional two-tone roof-body paintwork.
Atomic Rush Red
Electric Teal (white roof option)
Tidal Blue (white roof option)
Bionic Bronze (white roof option)
Shadow Platinum Silver (black roof option)
Crystal Pearl White (black roof option)
Hornet Yellow (white or black roof option)
All Aussie-delivered models are built in Japan. European versions are built in Turkey.
The most important element that hasn't been confirmed, and won't be confirmed until close to its launch in February 2017, is price. The top-selling Mazda CX-3 compact SUV starts at just under $20,000 but Toyota Australia revealed to motoring.com.au during the C-HR launch that it be a more premium offering.
As such, expect a higher price point than the Mazda and with so many features fitted as standard, it could be pegged from $26K.
Toyota's top brass confirmed that it's considering a high-performance version of the C-HR to bathe the regular range in its halo.
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