Toyota announces that its new compact SUV, the Yaris Cross, originally planned to be revealed at the 2020 Geneva Motor Show.1, has made its world debut.As a new SUV that inherits the qualities of the brand's flagship compact car, Yaris, Yaris Cross will be launched in Japan in Autumn this year, and in Europe mid- 2021. Toyota reveals the new 2021 Yaris Cross compact SUVThe new Toyota Yaris Cross has been designed and developed for Europe, specifically to meet the requiremen. New Toyota Yaris Cross Dynamic and Premiere Edition revealed. A new trim for the Toyota Yaris Cross has been shown off, called Dynamic. Set to join the previously-shown Excel version car when sales start in May, the Dynamic trim aims to give the Yaris Cross a bit more of a rugged, pseudo-off roader look. 2021 Toyota Yaris Cross Price and Release Date. This small crossover won’t arrive in the US for another two or three years. Instead, a new 2021 Toyota Yaris Cross will go on sale in Japan and Europe. This crossover will firstly arrive in Japan this fall and then in Europe in the first quarter of 2021. The price will start slightly below $25,000.

Originally planned for a Geneva Motor Show debut, Toyota just revealed the newest member of its overseas lineup: the Yaris Cross. As its name suggests, it's the crossover version of the Yaris compact hatchback. No, not the Mazda2-based thing Toyota passes off as a Yaris here in the U.S. (and, incidentally, turned into a pickup truck as an April Fool's joke last year) but rather the TNGA-B car it sells in Japan and Europe. Y'know, the good one it made a rad GR hot hatch out of and cruelly refuses to bring to the U.S.

Toyota says the Yaris Cross, like pretty much every other small-ute, aims to blend a nimble, compact body with 'SUV-like interior comfort and luggage room.' As enthusiasts, we know we're supposed to dislike faux-SUVs like this but as compact crossovers go, this doesn't look terrible. It can be had with the cool two-tone paint scheme already seen in a bunch of current 'Yotas and, for what it's worth, looks a hell of a lot better than the Corolla-based CH-R.

The plumper Yaris will be available powered by gas alone or as a hybrid. The gas version uses a 1.5-liter three-cylinder paired to either a CVT or a six-speed manual while the hybrid is also powered by a 1.5-liter but with the benefit of electric motors and optional e-AWD. Gas-only models are exclusively front-wheel-drive.

Like its vanilla and GR Yaris siblings, the possibility of the Cross coming to the U.S. is admittedly--like the Yaris itself--small. However, if a TNGA-based Yaris were to come over here, it'd probably be this one. America-bound or not, the new Toyota Yaris Cross will arrive in Japan in the fall and hit Europe mid-2021.

Yaris Crossover 2021 Price

Yaris Cross 2021 Price

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