Toyota C-HR Prologue previews next-gen SUV confirmed for Australia

The design path for the next-generation Toyota C-HR has been confirmed, and will probably be extra of the identical.

Toyota Australia has as soon as once more dedicated to promoting the brand new C-HR alongside the smaller Yaris Cross and bigger Corolla Cross.

Native timing, in addition to availability of the brand new plug-in hybrid possibility, can be introduced “nearer to launch”.

With its dramatic coupe-like styling, the unique C-HR, unveiled in 2016, was one of many first in a brand new wave of Toyotas that had been decided to shake off the model’s long-held conservative design ethos.

The brand new automotive will hold the fundamental proportions and the coupe-like rear-end styling, however in Toyota’s phrases, the second-generation C-HR is “nonetheless a insurgent [but] with additional sophistication”.

Toyota boasts that the brand new C-HR has greater wheels and shorter overhangs for a sportier look, whereas inside room can also be improved.

As with the present C-HR, the C-HR Prologue was designed at Toyota’s European design centre in southern France.

Up entrance the C-HR adopts the corporate’s new “hammerhead” face, which is current on the brand new Crown crossover sedan and the attractive fifth-generation Prius.

It seems to be as if Toyota has decreased the rake of the roof to enhance rear-seat headroom. To maintain the automotive’s coupe-like look, the rear aspect window is now even smaller.

The Prologue’s contrasting black paint sweeps up from the sills to mix in with the rear quarter panel and tailgate, and serves to disguise the true shut strains for the rear door, that are squarer and slightly greater than they seem.

The tail-lights are thinner and stretch deep into the tail-gate, in addition to excessive up into the C-pillar. An extension from the lighting array helps to cover the rear door handles.

An earlier design patent leak signifies the C-HR Prologue will fairly go into manufacturing as is. The one vital modifications we’re more likely to see are bigger flagpole-style mirrors rather than the idea’s tiny digicam pods.

The rear door handles are additionally set to be flush-fitting flip-out fashion models like those used for the entrance doorways, whereas aspect window profile is difficult with the addition of mounted glass segments at each ends.

With seemingly each automotive now obtainable in two tone, the C-HR Prologue kicks the sport up a notch with its three-tone remedy of silver, “recycled carbon black”, and gold or “sulphur”, with the latter utilized to the decrease air consumption, rear wing, and diffuser.

Below the pores and skin the C-HR is anticipated to make use of an evolution of right now’s TNGA-C structure, which can also be employed by the not too long ago unveiled fifth-generation Prius.

In Europe, the C-HR can be obtainable with each hybrid and “Twin DNA” plug-in hybrid drivetrains, the latter that includes batteries made in Europe.

It’s unclear if the plug-in hybrid possibility can be obtainable in C-HRs bought in different markets, or whether or not will probably be unique to European fashions constructed on the firm’s plant in Turkey.

Whereas the automaker has but to announce particulars, the C-HR may be outfitted with the identical plug-in hybrid setup because the next-generation Prius, which boasts a 2.0-litre system making a complete of 164kW and is able to finishing the 0-100km/h sprint in a really un-Prius-like 6.7 seconds.

The brand new Prius PHEV is fitted with a 13.6kWh lithium-ion battery pack that must be good for round to 50 to 60km of emissions-free driving.

In Japan the newest Prius may also be obtainable with two hybrid choices: a 103kW 1.8-litre, and a punchier 144kW 2.0-litre.

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