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 shortly obtain a sports-encouraged trim-degree. The styling deal will act as the flagship design for the regular-issue C-HR vary, offering competitiveness for the Nissan Juke Tekna+ and Volkswagen T-Roc R-Line.

Like Toyota’s present Yaris GR Sport and Corolla GR Sport models, the C-HR GR Sport will use the same mechanicals as the regular C-HR crossover, but it’ll attribute a sporty exterior styling deal encouraged by the approaching general performance-concentrated 250bhp C-HR GR.

We hope that the jazzed-up GR Sport will start later on this year. The design need to be quite quick for Toyota to develop, as it calls for only small improvements to the crossover’s human body and interior. It need to also establish to be as successful as the firm’s present GR Sport models – the two of which have relished revenue success in the Uk.

Revisions around the regular-issue C-HR need to consist of wider entrance and rear bumpers, further aspect skirts, much larger alloy wheels, privateness glass and a pair of LED headlamps. Like the Corolla GR Sport, potential buyers need to also get a pair of sports seats and a reupholstered interior.

As the C-HR GR Sport is a purely beauty trim deal, it’ll be offered with the crossover’s regular vary of engines. Prospective buyers will be offered a option of two four-cylinder hybrid powertrains – both a 120bhp 1.8-litre or a 181bhp two.-litre device.

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