Toyota C-HR FULL REVIEW Hybrid SUV CHR 2018 - Autogefühl
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- Опубліковано 25 гру 2017
- In today’s episode, Thomas presents you the Toyota C-HR. As always we cover the exterior, interior, talk about engines and for sure drive the car. How does it perform and how does it compete to other vehicles? These are further questions which will be answered on Autogefühl.
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Autogefühl Thomas. Great work. No, not great. Brilliant work, as always. Keep it up bro! Just a simple question for you. Is it worth waiting for Lexus UX? My main problem is that I'm not sure my 4 years old TRIPLETS would fit inside the car with 3 child seats, what do you think? Vielen Dank!
what about peugeot in the list?
One of the best reviews of the C-HR. Thanx! I bought a C-HR, coming from a Prius. So it’s way more exciting car, believe me 🤣. I love the hybrid system. It’s unbelievable reliable. Only costs of maintenance and of course less fuel consumption. Drove the 10 year old Prius to 220k with original brakes and 12v battery. Even after 10 years the car looked brand new on the inside. I expect the C-HR will have the same quality. It has a 10 year guarantee 😃✅
Glad you liked it!
Two long test drives and my own C-HR will arrive in about amonth. I am nearly 80, a conservative driver with access to other cars in my household. A mix of city and highway driving.
Several main reasons or selecting the vehicle: safety (both electronic and physical ), hybrid engine, ability to get a 'luxury' finish, relatively small size and the exterior and interior design. I tested acceleration and the maximum is way beyond my driving habits. The back seat was fine for my wife. The 'darkness' in the back seat? Our windows are covered anyway to cut out the sun for our grandchild (daughter in law is an optometrist and urged us to do that). The size of the trunk is good enough for our needs, in fact, I probably will drive with the rear seat down.And, very important, this will be our fourth Toyota. Extreme reliability. The dealer is about 400m from our house and is terrific.
Thanks for the report!
What is your feedback ?
Hi there.
I will get this car in a week...can't wait.
The b-mode of the CVT stands for breaking. Usefull for driving in areas with hills and mountains.
Actually I love CVT's. In a hybrid the ECVT is part of the way the drive systems act together. (Planetary Gear Set). That's why you can never order a Toyota Hybrid with a manual. Don't regret!
Agreed that Toyota should have add extra dampening materials to the doors and other places. I will do it myself if really neccesary.
Thnx for the review. It's one of the better ones.
[braking ….]
Nice review Thomas, one of my favourite cars
More Japanese review like this please
thanks, we ll try !
Another great review, Thomas. thanks for a great year of car stuff. I hope you have had a good Christmas and can I wish you and the team a great 2018. All the very best 👍🏼
all the best!
I had a Prius in the past and never had just a pleasant car with medium consumption of 5l/100 km.Never had problems with them.This cannot be said of the VW golf of my husband and his present Passat he uses as company car nowWe made a test drive with a CHR this weekend and what a comfortable car with the right suspension feeling and driving feelingConsumption at 5 L a lot lower than the quasqai of my brother (9 L for a 1.6 l engine)Also a very high score in the ncap testing of 95 % !Of course you will have to learn driving a CVT
Personal experiences vary. Our old Toyota Rav4 needed a new flywheel at 61000 miles, a new Turbo at 80000 and other engine parts. The Golf we had after that is trouble free.
Watching another great review from here in England, best in depth reviews around. I love my music whilst driving, can you show a little more on the quality of the sound systems in your reviews....please.
thanks pal! will do
toyota corolla 2008 owner - 126.000 km so far; no engine problem so far, only changed battery and some lights; had CVT transmission performance issues at start, but they warranty solved them
I have owned one for a month now and its amazing! Great review thanks
John Agg how is the speed 144 HP
@@valg.3152 I drove from Midlands to Cornwall (200+ miles) and it is as smooth at Motorway speeds (plus a little bit more!) as my Range Rover with enough power to overtake the annoying middle lane cruisers...
John Agg I like this
Great review. Thank you so much..
The design is something that I would buy this car for. It really catches the eye even in gray.
Great review 😉👍👍👍👍
My number one resource for in-depth car reviews. Lets go!
+a belhoul 🙏🙏
You are one of the best car reviewers out there. Very thorough and detailed. Keep up the good work!
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Very nice review! Objective ,indeed!
cheers m8 !
Happy Holidays & thank you Thomas - great driving parts as always. Good demo of Braking Warning, BLIS, ACC & "The Force"! You ask, "am I love or hate!" I'm a car enthusiast so I love all cars! I think one thing: if you drive all sorts of cars, mostly smooth, relaxing quiet & effortless cars, we found that on a trip with a new C-HR hybrid, that the car was too noisy, I found the seat a little un-comfy, and the ride harsh. But kudos to Toyota for building reliable cars! And snazzy shapes!
yeah indeed! happy holidays!
gordon bennett. I like Toyota, they're reliable. C-HR is well equipped, but expensive compared to my Yaris. I'll stick with my Yaris as it always works. And it's not expensive.
You make Excellent reviews. Probably the most detailed reviewer on UA-cam for any category. But they are really difficult to watch completely for people who watch them for entertainment, due to their length.
thank you! We want to deliver as much information as possible
Happy new year Autogefülh! :)
happy nu year!
best reviews on youtube. PLS do review on the new mitsubishi eclipe cross when you can. THANKS a lot
thanks! Yes I ll try to get one
Fantastic review. Interesting how your outfit match the car's colours inside and out :D
+Sean Andre Harding 😎😎
The adaptive cruise control works fully till 0? Drove a few of these last year for work. Or is that on the later models?
The most common thing people use wrong in Toyota Hybrids is B-MODE. B-mode uses the petrol engine to engine-brake, this uses petrol and increases consumption even up to 0.5 litres/100km
The best way is to drive in D-mode and gently press brake pedal when wanted to slow down, while doing this the electric motor slows the car down and regenerates energy to the battery, at the same time petrol engine is turned off under optimal circumstances.
B-mode should only be used when running down very deep hills, and when normal brakes could overheat.
indeed
Great review as usual! Are you planning to review the Suzuki SX4 s-cross? It also looks like an interresting SUV.
lets see what we can do. We have a video of the pre-facelift, pretty old though, but funny for that reason =)
ua-cam.com/video/-Xz84qh-n6o/v-deo.html
Great review Thomas, any chance that you’d ever review an Auris/Corolla?
Thanks! Sure we can do that, usually we take the most recent models with the brands that are not that active
i tried this car for few days and must agree it attracks a lot of attention and has uncomfortable seats...didn't really enjoy driving it, except the fact that it starts with the hybrid engine (so you cannot race that much but fuel consumption can compensate ;)
Great review am buying one this weekend
enjoy :)
It's a very beautiful car and I have driven one from my Toyota dealer (while my Auris HSD was in service). I enjoyed the car, although I felt a bit cramped. I enjoyed the built quality and the hybrid system and since I have been driving a hybrid for 5 years until now I kinda got very quickly the driving concept.
What I have noticed very quickly is that the car as less power than mine, specially on acceleration, but according to the Toyota guys, they say that this hybrid version can save up to 30% more fuel than my current Auris.
Overall it is a very nice car for the city life and it's cheap on your daily commute.
What I did not enjoy was the infotainment system.
Great review!
+Rui Marcos thanks for the feedback!!
Ha ha ha this car stupid UGLY.
@@MyLife-so1jl it’s my life, not yours…
I have a C-HR Lime Editon with the 1.8 CVT engine.
I have several points to raise:
The 'B' mode on the gear selection is for engine 'Braking'. In normal 'D' mode, when going down hills, the car may accelerate slightly (gravity gets to play with the car). Put the gearbox into 'B' mode and the engine is used to stop the acceleration and can also help to slow the car down without using the wheel brakes. The recharging you keep going on about, is as a function of the engine slowing the car down and is not the reason for the 'B' mode.
The second point is regarding your observations of the car's acceleration when you get onto the dual carriageway. You don't mention, so I'm assuming you were not aware, that there are three driving modes available via the small digital screen on the dashboard. There's an 'Eco', 'Normal' and 'Sport' mode available. When the car is first started, it is in 'Normal' mode (I'm assuming you were driving in 'Normal' mode). Putting it into 'Sport' mode improves the throttle response making overtaking easier and quicker. The 'Eco' mode makes the car less responsive to the throttle to allow for smoother and slower acceleration and therefore more economical driving.
I also have to disagree with your comfort statements. I have just returned from a 1500 mile trip from the UK to France and back. My passengers and I found the seats very comfortable. As to the suspension, we also found it very comfortable on rough roads, with a slight amount of roll on cornering. I would like the suspension to be a bit stiffer (www.fensport.co.uk/ may be getting a return client for this as they supply suspension mods for the C-HR). Maybe the German versions have a slightly 'sportier' setup to the British versions in the suspension department? overall I find the handling quite responsive, reassuring and fun and find the car holds the road really well both in the dry and the wet.
I find the all round visibility very good. Those areas where driver position visibility is impared are covered by technology such as the lights that light up on the wing mirrors and the camera view when in reverse gear.
Otherwise, I agree with what you say about the car. That infotainment system could be a lot better. Selecting an address in the Sat Nav is slow and tedious. Changing from Radio AM to Radio FM to Radio DAB to Aux to iPod is a bit like watching glaciers melt. It takes time (though not as long as on a Yaris SR with Tomtom and my two GT 86s) to initially 'read' the data on my iPod delaying the selection and use of the iPod option. The response to the 'buttons' on the screen generally is geologically slow, resulting in unecessary re-pressing of the desired option. Also, it can't cope with Japanese (or Korean or Chinese) text from my iPod!! Strange, as it's a Japanese car. My oriental music collection shows a lot of songs called ???? ??? by an artist called ????? ??????. It does cope with the cyrillic alphabet though. This should never be an issue in the modern intenet connected world. Toyota need to reappraise their infotainment systems in all their vehicles and modernise it somewhat. For the price payed for the car, these should not be issues (I have asked my local Toyota dealership if the sofware can be updated to cope with these character sets bt apparently it can't). The hi fi sound quality is pretty good though (I have the JBL 9 speaker system).
Something you don't mention is the lack of cubbyholes available for things like holding small change for feeding car park barriers and parking space machines, notes, items that you need to access quickly while driving (passports and tickets for the ferry come to mind here) e.t.c. What is there is good, but a fold out container for holding small change and a small non-slip shelf area would be nice.
Overall I like the car despite it's faults. It's fun to drive and once the desired settings in the Sat Nav and hi fi system are selected it works well.
thanks for the extensive report!
@@autogefuehl You're welcome. I should also mention that twice now, the Toyota infotainment system has screwed my iPod up. the first time I had to reset the iPod and the second time I had to reset to factory settings and reload all 9000+ tracks back onto it from my PC. This should never happen!
oh wow wtf!
I love your reviews
thanks for the support! =)
Happy New year Thomas.
same to u !
Happy New Year Thomas !!
happy holidays!
Danke :)
Thomas is the best the car review World has seen
Cheers! 😉
It has two downsides. The first is that all awd versions are all combined witn a cvt transmision an the second is than it needs a bit more power. But besides these two it's a great car and it also looks amazing.
Nice review again 😃 could you please have a go at the BMW X5 40e as well? Would love to see your opinion on that one.
cheers! So far, we only had the X6: ua-cam.com/video/G2YJa4j-Bek/v-deo.html
Lets see what we can do in the future
Danke T. Merry Christmas from Dublin..... I think i'd prefer if they put the dashboard of the gen 4 Prius into the CHR...... I currently drive a gen 3 Prius which is so relaxing to drive......
+wayne morrissey merry xmas!
Grüß dich..
Review was spot on. In depth review of the cars interior, exterior and driving behaviour & characteristics.
Liked every bit of your review.
A suggestion, probably you could break down the review into different segments(Example: interior - 5 mins, exterior - 8 mins etc) that way viewers have a choice to select a particular segment.
Keep up the good work and please continue to upload your latest reviews.
Mfg
thanks stay with us!
Beautiful car with absolutely beautiful review thank you.
Thanks for joining us!
Driven it shortly, but i loved it
Would you suggest this CH-R or Prius 2016 for motorway driving?
Where are the new reviews ? :) I can't wait
happy new year to the crew, cheers
we were out of office for a few days as well, but today we got a new test vehicle, so there will be a review coming pretty soon ;)
Looks better than it drives...........so the joy to be had is in looking at it.
Another masterpiece.
The main use of 'B' mode is to give engine braking when going down steep hills as it turns the ICE into an air pump and slows the car down to save over use of the friction brakes. It's the equivalent of changing down to a lower gear in a normal manual ICE car.
B mode stands for brake and not battery, it throws energy away by spinning the engine without using fuel. The car will recover less energy in B mode. When using B mode in the correct way descending down a steep hill you will hear the engine spinning and can be disconcerting the first time you hear it.
The best way to drive a Toyota/Lexus Hybrid is to just put it in D and let the car work out what mode it requires. Forcing the car to run in EV all the time wastes fuel as the ICE has to run more to recharge the battery which in turns harms your fuel efficiency.
thanks for the info !
Hello,
what is the total system torque of this engine?
cheers
Jacket of the tester in perfect harmony with the vehicle ..
After, we must have the blue matte ... all the more strange that the interior of the doors is brilliant.
22:05 B-mode is only for engine braking.
B-mode doesn't intentionally charge the battery. It increases the regen power in fast hilly terrain or mountain driving. It would be able to maintain down hill speeds - but this doesn't charges the battery unless under 65%, electricity generated is sent to the other motor, spinning the engine like a vacuum pump - the more it spins, the more the car is slowing down but there's no mechanical link to do so like in a petrol car.
5:35 You're pretty much correct in most sense - but actual CVTs, with belts and false gear-shifting are the *devil's* *doing.* The Hybrid system is more interesting as in the shortest way I can put it. It's like a miniature, electricity power station with 3 generators, and an old-school pencil sharpener in it that can flex and change how much and where it gets its power to and from.
well said =)
Very nice review, can you do suzuki swift next
+albertobult thanks! We ll see if we can get one
ACHTUNG! the B mode is not meant to charge the battery! it simulates engine-brake by keeping it running 😊 toyota itself tells you not to use it too much because it's not efficient! it's meant to be used over long downhill descent to preserve brakes 😊
can you give me link of mercedes maybach s 600, maybach 62 and 57 ,please
I like it but not enought soace in trunck and back seats. Missing night ambiant lighting inside to.
Love it love it love it.
Great review thanks Thomas, been tho no g of swapping my 2017 scirocco for one of these...not sure if I can bring myself to do it!😫
Cheers!
Hmm ... Scirocco is a nice car :)
@@autogefuehl so in your opinion stick with the scirocco? The fate of my car rests on your shoulders!😁
I think so :)
Thanks o mighty car guru! Love the reviews and best regards from the UK!
Do other car brands have hybrids too?
I can't decide whether I like the design or not. Its certainly a bit different. It does look very claustrophobic in the back with the shape of those tinted rear windows.
As usual a great a great review but I would have liked to have seen some shots showing what the rear visibility was like from the driver's seat. Like a lot of cars in this class the exterior design features seem to create significant blind spots for when it comes to reversing and parking etc.
thanks! There is no rear visibility =D
Is this the AWD version yet? I will never buy this car until it is AWD.
Front wheel drive is the only problem with the 2017 model.
I think the front looks good,the back not so good.The interior looks nice but the quality could be better .
I think for what it does,ie HYBRID it's pretty cheap because competitor's HYBRIDS are more expensive.
Nice reviewThomas,keep it up!
thx greg!
Thanks for a nice and very detailed review as usual. I do like the car, but agree that it does lack some power. If only it had the same hybrid power train option as in my Lexus Is300h (2.5), I would really consider it. Good job :-)
+Søren Kjærsgaard Olsen 👌
I was actually considering this car.I got the WRX instead. I think I made the right choice. :D
Love it
Could you give me total system torque of this engine? I can't find it anywhere on the web, only the torque of the combustion engine and the electric engine seperately :(
cheers
Siemen Dilissen 144 hp
The navigation control and speed reminds me of mine from my Citroen C6 which has system from i think 2007/2008... and i think there are really strange compromises in the car... I think you are quite slim but it seems like you ass doesn't fit into the seat like it would be really tiny... What I love are your comments about the other cars passing by - it makes the review more playful :-)
:-)
I just find when Toyota does something different or daring to get attention, it's usually a mixed bag that could go either way. With C-HR luckily it's more good ( same with Century ) than bad ( new Camry, Prius and Mirai ). Not a fan how the designers' integrated the info-screen.
When you going to do a full review on Kia Stinger? also Honda Accord? Happy New 2018 along with more vehicles to review Autogefuhl!
happy 2018 my friend!
Love!
Thank you for review. It was interesting but it's pity you didn't show some more good thing's about this car (like sport mode, which you can choose or automatic parking, which is appreciate by quite some driver's 😉). Anyway thank you!
appreciated !
makes a nice noise :) seems to make smooth magical progress …
Hallo Thomas!
Wie immer ein toller Test - man hat das (Auto)Gefühl selbst dabei zu sein. 👍😃
Würdest du sagen, dass das Fahrerlebnis mit jenem des Lexus Ct200h vergleichbar ist?
Herzliche Grüße aus Wien
Danke! Puh, den bin ich noch net gefahren. Den NX aber: ua-cam.com/video/gTh7s55Z_0s/v-deo.html
ähnliches Fahrgefühl beim Ct 200, der Lexus ist aber besser verarbeitet und auch deutlich teurer. Ich kenne jemanden der einen Ct 200 fährt und sehr enttäuscht von der Leistung ist. Der Lexus ist wie der C-HR eher ein Auto für Kurzstrecke und Einkäufe.
Thanks for the review, Thomas!
You can put me in the LOVE camp for the looks. I think it looks really good. But the very limited view due to the massive C pillars and small rear windows is a big downside, also making the rear seats an unattractive place to be..
Now it apparently drives better than the Toyota's of old, but it seems to all fall apart after that. Lack of comfort from the suspension, too much noise and a gutless drive train. Pity.
If they would add a more powerful engine option, like a 1.6 turbo petrol or the hybrid system from the RAV4 I'm sure it woud already improve a lot. Also because you wouldn't have to work the engine that hard, making it more silent.
Add some sound insulation and rework the suspension setup and most concerns would be addressed. Maybe they will do such things with a face lift? I hope so, I'd love to see a lot of them on the road. (As long as I don't have to drive in it! :-))
yeah good points!
Happy holidays Gerard
Kia Niro and This one, who's the winner?
For me it's important to have a very safe car (5 stars for the crash test) with all the assistant systems on board. And also it is a "green" car and keeps the air cleaner then others. Thats why I will get this car soon.
I will be getting one shortly, my first hybrid, I will let you kow
Enjoy and good luck!
Great review. Driving a hybrid and I can agree with most of this. I think the car is a bit over styled. I may buy one though!
thanks!! Feel free to recommend :)
i dont know how i feel about toyota.. but at least they are not boring like most of other cars this days...
Is it true the Euro version has AWD available I heard??? I LOVE the styling. It’s beautiful. I want one! 😂😍😩✨💕
One of the best review I've seen from you in terms of pointing out the details, I don't know what people want who complains about biasing, do they really need to hear only sweet words about cars they like or to have rare opportunity to really choose a good car? German cars are really good on details, haven't you driven them ever? Yes, my emotional side often looks for something different, but rational always comes back to german cars, just how it is now, no bias.
thanks for the support !
Thank you very much AUTOGEFUHL
you re welcome!
Hard to decide which is the best to get you hyped: "lets get ready to rumbleeee" or "full screen, full hd AND fuld length, lets go (pointy finger)" 😁
Jokes aside strange engine and transmission choice for a car that looks from the outside like a 6 sec car.. Another better than the rest review to you guys! 😎
+Tobias Hjorth 😎
Thomas could you please do a full review of a Hyundai i30N?
we ll try to do that 2018
It`s hard to get hands on a review copy isn`t it? In Poland we only have 1 for reviews XD
yeah
This car shines in the urban driving. Previous car I had, a Mazda 3 G120 AT I was getting about 12-14l /100 km in urban traffic in Brussels, with C-HR hybrid arround 5. So no, it is not only 1l of fuel consumption the difference. It is a bit noisy when you accelerate but otherwise ok.
I think that hybrid cars are a bit confusing as there is so much different stuff u can do
I like the bold looks and the overall look of the interior but the infotainment system is really bad. For such a modern looking car to have such old fashioned tech is not what buyers will expect.
Finally!
what do you think of chr hybrid vs 3008 peugeot vs volvo xc 40?
See our Peugeot 3008 reviews here: ua-cam.com/users/results?search_query=peugeot+3008+autogefuehl
XC40 full review coming soon
You did not used the auto reverse on this car.
I have a toyota avensis with a 1.8 engine why should this be slow with a 1.8
I think I'm on the hate it side.
Great review though Thomas!
thanks for following!
Thank you Thomas for another excellent review
np =)
Never miss a Thomas review but this appears to be one of his least favourite cars - too many reasons to mention!! A friend of mine just bought one!! I wish he saw this review!! Happy Christmas Thomas
happy holidays my friend!
Hi Thomas! I usually think that your videos are simply the best! But this time I found that there´s no comments about important things such as the way the rear door is opened, and the rear window, for instance. I think that rear door handle is not practic at all, any children will be able to open rear door without the help of an adult. Also about the rear windows, due to that particular shape I think that visibility for passengers insidi will be very limited, could you confirm that?
thanks for all your videos!
hey Roberto, did you really watch the whole review? I went in-depth on the rear door handles, I showed the child-safety-lock on the inside, and I mentioned in the driving part that the blind-spot-monitor is crucial option due to the back visibility in the side-rear part.
Autogefühl my apologies!! You are totally right, due to my Internet conection I didn’t watch that part 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤪 that’s why it was so strange to me since all your videos are perfect!!
Nice car
Really nice review. I think the exterior looks great but the interior is not practical and as you showed the infotainment is embarrassing. You mentioned if it was worth it to get and hybrid for only a liter by 100 km. Based on the last 2 cars i have been driving a golf 1.4 tsi and a V40 d2 compared to a Kia niro the consumption is at least 30% in favor of the kia niro hybrid. i think one reason besides efficiency is that hybrids makes you drive more eco-friendly. Hybrids are also more "sensitive" in terms of fuel economy to cold weather.
thanks emilio!
I love the styling both inside and out; except for that digital clock! Why do Toyota continue to use that dated design element.
HRV (with led projector headlamp) or CHR? Comment down below
The Honda is roomier (backseats and boot) but everything else in better on C-HR, the Honda is based on a smaller and more basic Jazz platform while C-HR on more modern Prius 4 TNGA platform.
Which one do you think is better? 🤔
Toyota C-HR or Kia Niro?
Compare our Kia Niro review here: ua-cam.com/video/olE-NKd87-o/v-deo.html
I already saw ;)
But I wanted your opinion. :D
why the color is matt?
Its a special matt color
This painting is original from Toyota or aftermarket?
original
Thanks ;) Looks very strange like original painting :D
12:52 Make the break pedal feel utterly despised or dejected & push POWER switch to start. LMAO...Depress is used incorrectly. Also, Someone Tell Toyota That Only The First Letter In A Sentence Is A Capital Letter.
Great Review Thomas, As Always.....damn now I'm doing it as well -_-
+lights8811 thx!
Hi Thomas, I thank you very much for this review, as I was one of the people requesting it, great to see we can be heard and interact. As usual splendid images and very detailed and interesting review !
As you asked feedback of owners, I’ll give you mine as we own a hybrid C-HR for one year now. Interestingly, our other car is a Mercedes GLA 200 (petrol) 7G-DCT, so I can compare the C-HR with german premium car, more about this later.
About the look, we were mindblowed by it, and one year later, still in love :) Lots of attention and sympathy from people on parkings and on the road :)
About the fuel consumption : after 13500 km we are at 5.2 doing lots of small travels of less than 10 km (www.spritmonitor.de/de/detailansicht/808405.html), and this is not just one liter economy, but rather 2, the Juke it replaced was at 7.5 (1.6 petrol CVT, same use : www.spritmonitor.de/de/detailansicht/726630.html) and my GLA is at 7.4 (www.spritmonitor.de/de/detailansicht/708688.html)…
As you said the model is very well equipped, I agree the interface of GPS/media is too slow but I’d add the JBL sound is very good, could be on premium models (+/- equal to Harman Kardon on GLA). Let’s also say that you have free updates of system and maps for 5 years here, 2-3 updates/year which is nice.
About the fit and finish, I don’t have the same problems you showed on the hatch door or on the armrest… on contrary the dashboard is more solidly built than the one on GLA !
Also about suspension and confort : I think this is a strong point and not a weak one, it feels at least as comfortable as my GLA (which has « confort » suspension, not the AMG sport version and also 18 » wheels). Cornering is also good and the C-HR doesn’t roll in turns, but GLA is definitely more agile and dynamic in this sector.
It’s interesting to see how you « evolve » in you review, first thinking the C-HR in underpowered on autobahn, then finding that’s no sportscar after all, and that it’s very nice to drive in town : this is what people will experiment when driving a hybrid after a turbo-diesel or turbo petrol engine, it needs some accommodation in your way of driving (« pulse and glide ») but it ends up to be very relaxed and pleasant driving experience. For the C-HR, we had no need for accomodation because this was not our first hybrid, we had a Honda Insight hybrid before, so we already knew what to expect and how to drive, but I must say the C-HR is much more refined than the Honda. Actually this is another kind of driving pleasure, the fun to use most of the time the electric motors to cruise gently instead of racing agressively, maybe if more people drove this car there would be less crashes and dead people on the roads…
You find the C-HR loud in acceleration because it’s so silent at stable speed; but sound insulation is not really worse than in GLA (ok GLA isn’t the best in class on this ;) ). On the highway there’s no problem at all to cruise at 120-130 and still overtake, like any compact car of this power.
About reliability, only one year but not a single problem and on specialized forums, no problems to mention, and the same for Prius 4 and Auris hybrids, so I think this technology is very reliable and also cheap to maintain. If you have other questions, feel free to ask :)
Very interesting, thank you so much!
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Good night, do you think Ioniq or Niro are better options?
We do have a review of the Niro to compare: ua-cam.com/video/olE-NKd87-o/v-deo.html
And Ioniq overview: ua-cam.com/video/q2wQmEhl3uM/v-deo.html
Autogefühl But in your opinion since I have not led you, what will be the best of the three for you.
You cannot reduce that answer to one line of comment - that's why we do in-depth reviews :)
Autogefühl Thank you, continuation of a good job👍.
+nuno valente cheers!