New Toyota C-HR GR Sport badge trademarked

Toyota has registered a trademark for the “C-HR GR Sport” nameplate, suggesting the firm’s compact crossover will soon get a sports activities-inspired trim-degree. The styling package deal will act as the flagship design for the standard-concern C-HR selection, giving levels of competition for the Nissan Juke Tekna+ and Volkswagen T-Roc R-Line.

Like Toyota’s current Yaris GR Sport and Corolla GR Sport products, the C-HR GR Sport will use the exact same mechanicals as the standard C-HR crossover, but it’ll aspect a sporty exterior styling package deal inspired by the approaching efficiency-concentrated 250bhp C-HR GR.

We expect that the jazzed-up GR Sport will start later on this calendar year. The design need to be relatively quick for Toyota to make, as it needs only minimum variations to the crossover’s overall body and interior. It need to also show to be as financially rewarding as the firm’s current GR Sport products – both equally of which have savored gross sales achievements in the Uk.

Revisions above the standard-concern C-HR need to contain broader entrance and rear bumpers, further facet skirts, more substantial alloy wheels, privateness glass and a pair of LED headlamps. Like the Corolla GR Sport, purchasers need to also get a pair of sports activities seats and a reupholstered interior.

As the C-HR GR Sport is a purely beauty trim package deal, it’ll be available with the crossover’s standard selection of engines. Customers will be available a decision of two 4-cylinder hybrid powertrains – both a 120bhp one.eight-litre or a 181bhp 2.-litre unit.

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