10 Reasons to get one | Toyota C-HR Review | 2024

Say hello to Howard Ritchie's review on the stylish and thoroughly reworked Toyota C-HR. This completely refreshed crossover is aiming to take on the likes of the Volkswagen T-Roc and Honda HR-V with fresh looks, an updated interior and a range of updated hybrid drivetrains.

1.8-litre and 2.0-litre self-charging options are offered, along with a 2.0-litre plug-in hybrid model. The latter is capable of 41 miles on electric power alone. You can consider the C-HR crossover version of the popular Prius. But we'd go for the C-HR every time. Howard took one for a spin to explain why and goes into detail on ten need-to-know things about this clever hybrid model.

00:00 – Coolest compact SUV on the planet?
00:33 – What does CHR stand for?
00:45 – Toyota C-HR design
01:07 – Toyota quality & 10-year warranty
01: 35 – C-HR interior
03:03 – Toyota C-HR self-parking
04:28 – C-HR's best design features
05:08 – Toyota C-HR lease pricing
06:00 – Drivetrain options
07:03 – C-HR Hammerhead design?
07:29 – Rear lightbar
07:49 – Toyota C-HR ambient lighting
08:14 – Safety features
09:34 – Toyota Safety Sense

[winter]

This was such an enjoyable review to watch! I love this guys sense of humour. Also love seeing little glimpses of England and the cold weather (cold weather loving Australian here). Also so fascinating that the car is inspired by diamonds and the build quality is top notch because it insulates well.

[ruthkhd]

Had my GR for a month and a half, love it, oh and I’m a 60+ female who perfectly understands how a hybrid works😅 this is my third C-HR.

[johnharper]

Why oh why do you people always review the top of the range model. Why not review the ones real people buy.

[BDTTK]

Great review, preferred it over the carwow review because you mentioned some features that Matt didn’t such as that acceleration safety feature

[wrusty]

I drove a rental hybrid C-HR 4000km around Spain and Portugal during October and November this year. The car had 10000km on the clock and was a delight to drive.
A funky little car with good styling and plenty of power. I was getting 5.1l/100km fuel efficiency, which. compared to my 2014 Camry 2.4l petrol with 11l/100km is quite amazing, albeit mostly highway.
The seats are worth a special mention - I could easily drive 3 or 4 hours without any discomfort in my backside compared to the Camry, which has terrible seats only good for maybe 2 hours.
The worst and most dangerous feature, however, was the adaptive cruise control! Together with Lane assist, it pretty much takes the pain out of highway driving, so much so that there is a sensor to warn that your hands are no longer on the wheel, and disengages if continued for too long.
What's really dangerous for someone like me, who has got used to the "manual" cruise control that needs to be engaged and disengaged by the driver, is that the system on the C-HR overrides the accelerator pedal. If overtaking a truck and we are both in the same inside lane, the system sees the truck ahead and slows the car down by itself progressively as you get closer. Now move into the adjacent lane to overtake, and it once again speeds up to whatever speed was set. Moving into the other lane well ahead of the truck seems to be the way to go, but you then run the risk of pissing off other drivers coming up way faster behind you.
Of course, the system isn't infallible, and sometimes the camera controlling it slams on the brakes without warning at 120KPH while overtaking. the real danger for someone like me who is not familiar with the car (no manual of course) is that I'm no longer in charge.
If I overtake a truck and the sensor camera overreacts, the accelerator (gas) pedal was shut down and actually collapsed on the floor, until it reset itself. This happened several times and I lost faith in the car.
A shame because otherwise a great little car as said previously, except that its attempt at safety features backfired.
I could not find a way to turn the feature off.

[Simonowen]

Loved my ch-r had hybrids for last 15 years now love them all Toyotas PRIUS, AURIUS and now a RAV4

[jamesk]

Stunning car. Loads of cool features. The GR spec is gorgeous, I love the two tone colour and of course you’ll never go wrong with a Toyota.

[abderra]

I have the 1.8L self-charging design spec of this car, and overall, it's been a very positive experience. It's incredibly comfortable to drive, and 500 miles in, I've averaged 60 mpg (UK). However, there are a few quirks that I've noticed along the way.

For starters, syncing trip data to the app requires you have to be stationary in park and click the privacy screen three times, otherwise, the trip data gets lost! The motor that drives the wipers are super noisy (as is the boot opening and closing), and the rear screen tends to fog up easily, which can be frustrating, especially considering there's no rear wiper. We've had so much rain in the UK lately, yes it does need a rear wiper!

Visibility out of the rear is rather limited, and the reversing camera's in the design spec has poor resolution nothing better than my previous Juke. Another annoyance is the constant beeping – whether it's for going just a mile over the speed limit or changing speed zones, the alerts can get a bit excessive. The major crash alert has come on a couple of times, when there's no way I was going to crash - just driving normally during busy school runs.

There's quite a few other minor annoyances. Sometimes randomly the alarm sounds for 5 seconds when locking the car. Every other drive it sends the app an alert to check the rear seats and if you turn off the alerts for those darn bleeps, it's reset the next time you start the car. When reversing, the screen does not always show the radar when approaching objects you could hit.

When a couple of passengers are in the rear, the 1.8L engine feels like it struggles and boy does it growl, like driving a Ferrari growl. Other than that the 1.8 engine is fine esp in busy town driving.

[CJ-pedl]

When the CHR parked for automatically for you if in adjusting to the space it went forward Q.what if a car was coming from your right or left, would the CHR stop to avoid a collision?

[yellowglider]

Just rented one for a month in Germany. Good point is the esthetic, and the totally seamless transition between electric (not a lot of it) and gasoline engine. The economy is quite good, about 50 euros for 600 km (in Germany).
But… From the driver standpoint, the CVT is a huge pain, it’s totally basic and if there’s any up and down in the road the RPM go up in an extremely annoying way. It feels like you are driving an old Fiat 500, if you know what I mean, even though there’s actually some power (Btw, I’m pretty familiar with CVT, within my vehicles there’s a Subaru Forester, and that CVT is a much better thing, night-and-day better). The gear selector seems standard, but it isn’t, you need to do a kind of a left-and-right dance to go from P to D and R. In a month I never got it completely right, I had to always hunt around to make it work. And the *beep* at every speed signal !!!! Triple *beep* if you dare to go over the limit by one kilometer… Huge, huge, huge annoyance that after the initial amazement gets old very soon if you are driving countryside…
I had rear passengers for a week, and they all lamented a very high noise and most importantly a very bad outside visibility. The cute exterior lines evidently didn’t consider the consequences…
So, all in all I was happy to have this car, worked reasonably well for the month I needed it. But I would NEVER buy one, no matter what…

[HuldaGreer-ho]

Really enjoyed your insights! The C-HR sounds like a stylish option! 🚗✨👍

[JO-jdbc]

Reason No 11 - A year ago I purchase the 2.0 C-HR GT at a cost of over £41.000. It does not have anywhere near as drive options as shown on this video. No Park assist, no fancy camera to show position of the car, and very little driving support systems ( no proactive driving assist, no front crossing traffic alert in fact other than the Dynamic radar cruise control ( which the novelty wears off rather quickly ) it is severely lacking. 3 of the 4 seats rattle which is disturbing when listening to music. My dealer Vertu Motors Hamilton dismissed this issue and would not fix. finally I have just noticed, that the near front seat recliner is broken. Conclusion: Vehicle not worth the high costs for very little driving options.

[renyirish]

Thanks for the humourous review 😅 Love the car, want it as a second pair of wheels in the house ❤ Toyota all the way for safety

[stephenwhitemore]

Currently driving one brand new hire car . One the gearbox will keep reverting to eco mode, on shut down and have to select normal each time I start it, Apparently there's a mode select button for cruise control and speed limiter, where is It? .One mile an hour over the speed limit and there's a quiet chime starts . How do you turn that off ? The steering wheel is not leather. Feels very plastic. Steering far to light, and the drivers seat will not go down far enough. Feels like you are sat on it not in it . By the way I am only 5.10

[TerryBarlow-peuk]

We have had toyot for years tried a lot of different makes but the chr new chr is the best ever❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊wow

[jamiep]

GR Is my favourite C-HR Trim, great review as well 😊

[bjsimon]

I like that you can split the color and do wraps and so on

[YuMiGO]

C-HR interesting acronym. Here in Thailand they told me it meant “Crossover High Roof”

[harmymd]

Such a delight to watch, I want to owm this

[itsJulianLam]

It's a shame that here in Australia, we do not get the 20 inch wheels as standard on the top spec GR model. We have to settle for 19 inch wheels.