In 2017, Toyota officially released a new small SUV Toyota C-HR in the global market. With its breakthrough appearance design and enhanced handling performance, Toyota C-HR has been well received by the market after its debut. This can be seen as Toyota’s best understanding of the radicalization and youthful design of small SUVs.
And a few days ago, Toyota officially released the new small SUV Toyota Raize, interpreting what a small SUV should look like from a balanced perspective.
From the looks of it, the all-new Toyota Raize is clearly not as aggressive as the C-HR. All the starting points of the vehicle’s styling revolve around the practicality and balance of the large space. In order to meet a better interior space permeability, Toyota Raize has raised the roof height and lowered the lower window frame line. The height of the hood has also been significantly lowered to ensure the lower visibility of its interior.
Under such an appeal, the overall effect of Toyota Raize is honestly not good-looking. Although in order to balance this performance appeal, Toyota’s designers also use a black roof and strengthen the C-pillar with the same body color as the body to make it look less tall. And in the styling language design of the front face and the rear of the car, it also uses a lot of radical elements popular in Toyota nowadays to shape its sense of hierarchy.
However, none of this seems to change the car’s styling, which is neither aggressive nor stylish, but one thing’s for sure, it’ll be very serviceable. Compared with the setting of Toyota C-HR with young couples as the main target group, Toyota Raize clarifies the needs of family users. Therefore, in the promotional pictures of this car, there are many scenes of family travel. This point is very advanced.
If we define the exterior design of Toyota Raize based on the actual needs of home users, we will find its ingenuity. The design of large permeability ensures the maximum use of the space inside the car, and you will not feel oppressed at all when you sit in the car. This will be very beneficial for the needs of traveling with children.
In terms of power, Toyota Raize offers two configurations of 1.0L and 1.5L hybrid, and the drive forms include two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive. According to the test procedure of JC08, the fuel consumption per 100 kilometers of the four-wheel drive version of Toyota Raize is less than 5L. At present, Toyota Raize will be mainly launched in the Japanese market. As for whether it will be sold in other countries and regions, the high probability event is negative.
