A harbinger of things to come as far as design and style go, Toyota revealed the C-HR Concept at the 2014 Paris Auto Show.
According to the automaker, the C-HR Concept is what happens when it genetically engineers a crossover from a late-1990s RAV4, a Prius and a GT86. The result is what it calls “diamond architecture styling,” which will likely begin to influence vehicle styling and design sometime down the road.
Under the hood is a new hybrid system that Toyota proclaims will “reset the standards for consumption and emissions.” What the automaker means by this is left to one’s imagination for now.
Regarding dimensions, the C-HR Concept is larger than the Nissan Juke, coming in at 171.3 inches long and 72.8 inches wide. However, it is 3 inches shorter at 59 inches, providing the crossover with a lower center of gravity.
This looks practical…
/sarcasm
To me, looks like new version of original RAV4. No sarcasm here.
Looks like a future Nissan Juke, ha, as if the Nissan Juke had a future
For those turned off by the Camaro’s massive greenhouse.
Welcome to the future of self driving cars. No need to see out of them at all….
I don’t want to live in that future, I don’t trust the various cameras and sensors required to make that happen to not break.
That;s the whole point. You are too poor to present much in the way of an attractive target for the ambulance chasers anyway.
Hence, the goal is to remove supposed responsibility from you, and transfer it to somewhere more lucrative for the leeches that run this dump…
I’m sure Toyota will use a front-facing camera to ensure the pilot can see the road.
Did Godzilla step on it?
The good news is, if we keep geting these ugly SUVs maybe folks will start to think a hatchback car would be nice.
Holy visibility, Batman!
Someone was eating crab legs when they designed the wheels.
They called it the C-HR because HHR was already taken?
(Crushed-HR?)
It looks like something a bored high school student would doodle while in his art class, but in reality wouldn’t attract a single Corolla or Camry shopper.
Oh, there is some bodywork behind those massive wheels and wheel arches. I realize concepts are normally exaggerations of themes and ideas, but shouldn’t it make people want one? I can’t imagine wanting something that remotely resembles this.
Can you order a periscope as an option?
That front end is essentially a direct copy of the current Renault styling language. It’s better than some of the oversized grilles and silliness they’re throwing around right now, but still, why couldn’t they come up with their own thing?
“A harbinger of things to come as far as design and style go”
Fine, just keep it quarrantined among designers and stylists.
We can beat ebola, we can beat this.
The Lexus NX is spreading!
Cameron, do you have any information on the new PSA/ Citroen cars? After all it is the Paris motor show.
I do not. Derek will be your tour guide for the French stuff, though.
Somewhere, out there, a Pontiac Aztek designer is scratching their head going, “wait a minute, they called the Aztek ugly?”
When do the people at Goodyear go up on stage to showcase the technology behind those rain sensing tires that grow tread on demand?
Make those tires a bit bigger, Toyota!
Then they’ll have to open a new stock class in swamp buggy racing.
I see the influence from the Peugeot RCZ. Just shorter with the height of a small CUV.