Toyota C-HR: Toyota’s answer to the Nissan Juke arrives early

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The Toyota C-HR – a production version of the C-HR Concept – arrives early ahead of its debut at Geneva as a funky urban crossover.

The Toyota C-HR Urban Crossover has been on its way for a long time, with the first concept at Paris in 2014 and a revised C-HR Concept at Frankfurt last year, and the production C-HR is dues to debut in Geneva next week. But it’s arrived a little earlier than Toyota planned.

Thanks to a leak of image on a US site, we get to see the production version of the C-HR, and despite expectations that the funky urban crossover concept would be so watered down for production it would be unrecognisable, the C-HR that’s actually going in to production is still making a funky statement.

The five-door urban crossover still comes with big bulging arches, lots of jarring angles and a dramatic roofline, which may have been tamed a bit for production but which still see a baby Toyota crossover that makes a real statement.

Based on Toyota’s New Global Architecture, which also underpins the new Prius, the C-HR will come with a hybrid powerplant, expected to be the usual four-cylinder Atkinson Cycle ICE mated to an electric motor, and driven through a CVT ‘box, creating the first production hybrid in it sector.

But we’d be surprised if Toyota limit the C-HR to being just a hybrid, so we can probably expect a variety of ICE powerplants to be on offer too.

More on the Toyota C-HR in the next few days when it arrives in Geneva.