What is it?
Toyota’s newest offering feels like the answer to some bad puns. What do you get if you cross a Toyota Yaris with an SUV? A Toyota Yaris Cross.
And how do you make a Yaris Cross? Well, you take the underpinnings and hybrid powertrains from a Toyota Yaris, raise the ride height, add some boxy new Toyota RAV4-inspired bodywork, rework the suspension a bit and add optional all-wheel drive. Okay, that’s not exactly going to win any comedy awards.
But it also prompts a serious question: why do you make a Yaris Cross? That’s easy: as the Nissan Juke and Ford Puma have shown, there’s an ever growing market for cars that blend high-riding SUV styling with the compact dimensions of a supermini.
Toyota believes that its heritage with both small cars and SUVs, plus a proven hybrid powertrain, can make its new offering stand out in the suddenly crowded compact crossover market.
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I hate those squared off wheel arches, but otherwise it looks decent. Would be great if they popped the 2.0 hybrid in from the Corolla.