The new Toyota Yaris Cross compact SUV will go on sale in the UK next month, with prices starting from £22,515. First deliveries are due to take place in September.
The new Nissan Juke and Ford Puma rival, which will be offered with a hybrid-only powertrain and optional four-wheel drive, is designed to fuse Toyota's successful small car and SUV lines.
The Yaris Cross will be available to order from 4 May in five versions, including a limited-run Premiere Edition trim. Entry-level Icon trim will offer features including 16in wheels, an 8.0in infotainment system and reversing camera. The £24,140 Design trim adds 17in wheels, LED front and rear lights, aluminium roof rails and a 7.0in digital driver info display. Excel models are priced from £26,745 and add 18in wheels, a 9.0in infotainment screen, and heating for the front seats and steering wheel.
The more rugged-looking Dymanic trim costs from £26,465 and adds styling that “emphasises the car’s suitability for life beyond urban streets", including increased body protection front and rear, a set of silver roof rails and 18in wheels with a dark grey finish. Premiere Edition models offer leather seats, a 10.0in infotainment screen, JBL audio system and bi-tone paint scheme, and are priced from £28,185.
The Dynamic and Premiere Edition trims are both available with optional all-wheel drive, with prices for those versions starting at £28,825 and £30,545 respectively.
The Cross is built on the Japanese firm’s TNGA-B platform and shares a number of common parts with the similar-sized Toyota Yaris supermini, alongside which it will be built at Toyota's factory in Onnaing, France. The firm intends to sell 150,000 Yaris Cross models next year, with the aiming of taking an 8% share of the European B-SUV segment. It estimates the Yaris range, which includes the supermini, SUV and Toyota GR Yaris hot hatch, will eventually account for a third of all its European sales.
Toyota said it chose to use the Yaris Cross title rather than give the model an entirely new nameplate to ensure a strong link with the supermini, its most popular European model. It also reflects the shared underpinnings of the two machines, although the firm says the two models are aimed at different customer groups.
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A good car which looks as if it is up to Toyota’s usual standards, but I Wish I lived in Australia. An entry level Yaris Cross hybrid in Oz has an O.T.R price of £18.5K. The petrol version which will not available in the UK is £17.2k, both with similar UK specs. I expect Toyota would say that’s all down to tax and exchange rates. At £17.2k I would buy a bargain petrol version, but at £22.5k a UK priced hybrid does not stack up for me. There is too large a financial penalty for a few extra MPG.
Where is the 50kWh battery? Probably still in a line in the Congo waiting for somebody's child to dig it out.
Where is the 50 kWh battery and 100 kW electric motor? And if I complain that with this new exciting model, we are being shoveled an age old powertrain that is at best, a thirty year old design? I might be smacked in the face with one of those wooden shoes. A 1.5-litre petrol engine is a cheap old stink pot that they will be asking a much too high price for.