New Toyota Yaris Cross SUV will cost from £ 22,515 Car News

The new Toyota Yaris Cross compact SUV goes on sale in the UK next month, with prices starting at £ 22,515. The first deliveries are due 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 merge Toyota’s successful small car and SUV lines.

The Yaris Cross will be available to order from May 4 in five versions, including a limited edition limited edition version. The entry-level Icon version will offer features such as 16-inch wheels, an 8.0-inch infotainment system and a rear view camera. The £ 24,140 Design trim adds 17-inch wheels, LED front and rear lights, aluminum roof rails and a 7.0-inch digital driver information display. Excel models start at £ 26,745 and add 18-inch wheels, a 9.0-inch infotainment screen, and heating for the front seats and steering wheel.

The more rugged Dymanic finish costs from £ 26,465 and adds styling that “emphasizes the car’s suitability for life beyond urban streets”, including increased body protection up front and down. rear, a set of silver roof rails and 18 inch wheels with a dark gray finish. Premiere Edition models offer leather seats, a 10.0-inch infotainment screen, JBL sound system and two-tone paint, and start at £ 28,185.

The Dynamic and Premiere Edition versions are both available with optional all-wheel drive, with prices for these versions starting at £ 28,825 and £ 30,545 respectively.

The Cross is built on the Japanese company’s TNGA-B platform and shares a number of common parts with the similarly sized Yaris supermini, alongside which it will be built at the Toyota plant in Onnaing, France. . The firm intends to sell 150,000 Yaris Cross models next year, with the aim of taking an 8% share of the European B-SUV segment. He estimates that the Yaris range, which includes supermini, SUV and 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 giving the model an entirely new nameplate to ensure a strong connection to the supermini, its most popular European model. It also reflects the common fundamentals of the two machines, although the firm says the two models are aimed at different customer groups.

Toyota says the Yaris Cross is intended to deliver “the high drivability of an SUV, but on a scale suitable for urban areas.” The styling has been perfected by Toyota design studios in Europe and Japan. Lance Scott, the firm’s European design director, said the design was based on the keywords “rugged and minimalist” as they “expressed both compactness and agility, as well as the sturdiness and strength of an SUV “.

Scott said the exterior has been sculpted to present a diamond shape when viewed from the top, with an emphasis on ensuring a strong horizontal axle and widened, square wheel arches to reflect its credentials of SUV. He added: “We wanted to keep the DNA of Toyota’s SUV lineup while giving the Yaris Cross its own identity.”