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Toyota Yaris Cross endurance test car in Great Britain, here on the Atlantic in Cornwall (above Sennen Cove) …
Only the British could formulate a very simple and noble question: “I beg your pardon,” we hear several times on the journey on the “wrong” side of the street, “What does CH stand for?” Mandatory CH mark in Great Britain AM Toyota Yaris Cross It causes confusion despite (or because?) the Swiss coat of arms on the license plate. Here, in the Lake District in northwest England, cars from Switzerland are a rarity.
For the author’s editors, the Toyota Endurance Test was a solution for a trip to the Lake District hiking area and Cornwall beaches in the southwest during unsafe flight times. It’s over for city SUVs Daily life in Switzerland And the Trip to Tuscany (I) Another test: 4,300 km to and across Great Britain, where the long-distance runner managed more than 15,000 km in the middle of the test.
Light shape, dark box
A full hybrid that perhaps does not resemble a rocket power, but is quite adequate for everyday use and when traveling, it works well on narrow English country roads, often with only one lane and hardly wider than itself: narrow (1.77 m) and short (4 .17 m) Yaris Cross always somehow fits it, and thanks to the all-wheel drive, it can escape to the soft, rainy bridge if necessary.
Toyota Yaris Cross Hybrid AWDi
to cut Full Hybrid (1.5 R3 Petrol Engine + Electric Motor), 116 HP (85 kW), 120 + 141 + 52 Nm, Continuously Variable Automatic, 4WD
mileage From 0 to 100 km / h in 11.8 seconds, the highest is 170 km / h
Dimensions L/W/H 4.17/1.77/1.60m, 1375kg, 320-1097L loading space
environment WLTP consumption / test 5.1 / 5.4 l / 100 km = 115/129 g / km CO2 emissions, power A
the prices Yaris Cross Hybrid AWDi from 31’400 Fr. ‘Adventure’ concept car with Option Connected Plus Pack 39’790 Fr. , Yaris Cross Base (1.5 Petrol Engine, 125 HP, M6, FWD) from 25′ 400 fr.
to cut Full Hybrid (1.5 R3 Petrol Engine + Electric Motor), 116 HP (85 kW), 120 + 141 + 52 Nm, Continuously Variable Automatic, 4WD
mileage From 0 to 100 km / h in 11.8 seconds, the highest is 170 km / h
Dimensions L/W/H 4.17/1.77/1.60m, 1375kg, 320-1097L loading space
environment WLTP consumption / test 5.1 / 5.4 l / 100 km = 115/129 g / km CO2 emissions, power A
the prices Yaris Cross Hybrid AWDi from 31’400 Fr. ‘Adventure’ concept car with Option Connected Plus Pack 39’790 Fr. , Yaris Cross Base (1.5 Petrol Engine, 125 HP, M6, FWD) from 25′ 400 fr.
It is still a mystery to us why a digital speedometer cannot be converted to miles per hour. When you’re out and about, GPS destination search often falls into a dead spot, which is why you have to link it up using a (very simple) cell phone mirroring. Not only in England is the speed limit detected almost chronically wrong. turn off? After each restart, it is again engraved in the top display. And the fact that cost pressure costs the interior backlighting is very annoying in the dark when arriving at the hotel on a holiday trip.
Low consumption, high sitting position
Also because the Yaris Cross is of course not a family vacation car: for a two-week vacation for two people, the rear should be used as storage space because the load space is full. However, the space provided is good for the league, and the Yaris Cross also scores on the “wrong” side with a superstructure combination of good maneuverability, good comfort and plenty of cornering fun.
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The hybrid cuts travel costs: on our trip to England (including the German highway) it only consumes 5.3 l / 100 km. The overall average in the test is still 5.4 liters / 100 km, with the smooth driving potential of four and a half liters. Also good: Plenty of storage space for odds and ends, seating — not an issue of course in this category — is comfortable, and the elevated seating position is a little pleasing. The Cross Traffic Warning, useful when parking, is as useful as it is easy to use – thanks too “real” buttons.
England is quiet, Germany is noisy
And the infinitely variable automatic, which makes the engine howl audibly at full throttle? It is a matter of getting used to it. With a comfortable gliding pace like in England, you drive the hybrid as you’d expect, and then it won’t bother you – often gliding down the lanes in the Lake District in an electric and quiet way anyway. In Germany, of course, there is an end to the silence: the fast pace leads to hearty acoustics, and more than 130 km / h becomes uncomfortable.
Too bad, because that upsets the general feeling of driving an older car. Now we’re curious if “Golden Ceiling”As we internally jokingly call it because of the paint, the second half of the endurance race once again mastered completely crash-free in everyday Swiss life.
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