The Toyota C-HR Concept has just been unveiled at the 2014 Paris Motor Show, and we now have the full low-down on the bizarre-looking C-segment crossover. This is an important car for Toyota, as it’s said to meld together the design ingenuity of the original RAV4, hybrid technology of the next-generation Prius, as well as the dynamism and agility of the 86 sports car.
It’s the car that rings true to Toyota president Akio Toyoda’s promise of “building more emotional cars that make their owners fall in love with driving again,” claims the Japanese carmaker. While we can’t comment on the way it will drive just yet (no details on the hybrid powertrain has been released anyway), the C-HR Concept’s looks tell a story all on its own.
Expanding on Toyota’s current Under Priority and Keen Look design identity, the C-HR introduces a new diamond architecture theme as well as other styling elements that preview the future design direction for Toyota vehicles. It’s said to be built on a brand new Toyota platform too, and it measures 4,350 mm long, 1,850 mm wide and 1,500 mm high, with a 2,640 mm wheelbase.
With massive wheelarches front and back, it has a broad and planted stance from every angle. The large, intricately designed headlamps incorporate three-dimensional LED daytime running lights, while the rear end is equally bold with swoopy and protruding taillamps. Steeply raked C-pillars with blacked-out edges create a slim floating roofline that’s very distinctive indeed.
Love it or hate it, but can you imagine future Toyotas looking like this?
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better than the x4
I certainly hope that not all future Toyota’s look like that. I know they’re trying to lose their uncle car image but this is taking it a bit too far.
maybe they want to compete with the korean design…
I was about to say this was the most messed up Toyota I’ve even seen in recent times. Then I saw the Carbase picture of the Innova…
Never mind.
No use concept after concept, but the real thing looks the same old recycled thing as the last one.
Sam Loo better not come and talk RV here, if he does, he better be willing to buy my friend’s Camry XV30 for 60k. After all the same model year (2005) Accords are getting nearly 55k, way more than what I am getting for the XV30!
Highly doubt he actual vehicle will be like this.
what a mess…
Look like …more show than go…
Fugly like hell
Wow! Megatron’s head on wheels!
Looks rather nice… Keen Look design… no kidding. And when toned down for production it could be rather nice… not too much. But doesn’t look like a model that would be sold in Malaysia, and hopefully it will have a rear view camera as rear mirror, cause this thing looks worse than a Countach…
gosh darn, sam loo you win on this one.
This is the best Toyota design we have seen in recent years.
welllll i guess there are some shitty cars in here but hell its not my drmaes .more zonda’s and skylines less maro’s says my dream.