With the C-HR unveiled in 2016, Toyota confirmed the world it might assume exterior the field and launch a daring design to distinction its conventionally styled automobiles. As previewed right this moment by the Prologue idea, the second-generation mannequin will as soon as once more undertake a putting look and a tri-color end by combining silver and black with contrasting orange accents. The general look takes cues from latest entries such because the Crown and Prius.
The Aygo X Prologue did not change an excessive amount of for the following manufacturing model of the pint-sized metropolis automotive, so we’re anticipating the C-HR Prologue to stay largely the identical for the road-going mannequin. Toyota says the fashionable crossover has a Hammerhead entrance fascia with slimmer headlights and smaller grille apertures. It seems sharper than the present mannequin and seems to have the rear door deal with situated on the outer nook of the taillight.
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In typical idea vogue, the C-HR is fitted with outsized wheels, which can seemingly be barely smaller for the manufacturing model. We’re additionally pretty sure the pop-out door handles will make approach for a conventional setup, whereas the facet cameras might be changed with typical glass mirrors. To maintain up with present design tendencies, Toyota is putting in an LED gentle bar on the again the place the unusually massive fake diffuser is tough to overlook.
Since that is solely an idea, the Japanese automaker refuses to enter particulars in regards to the new C-HR. Nonetheless, it does say the overhangs at the moment are shorter and but extra sensible on the within, which suggests the wheelbase is barely longer. Whereas the self-charging model will proceed, Toyota can also be planning a plug-in hybrid mannequin with batteries assembled in Europe.
Very similar to its predecessor, the revamped C-HR has been developed at ED², the automaker’s European Design Improvement headquarters in southern France. A launch date has but to be introduced, however we’re being instructed the second-gen mannequin is a “imaginative and prescient of a automotive that can quickly be turning heads on roads throughout Europe.”