Does that stand for 'hype-power'?
Not one to shy away from a show, Toyota has brought to the ongoing Frankfurt motorshow something that’s styled as a preview of a future product. Called the ‘C-HR Hy-Power Concept,’ this challengingly-named car is how the Japanese company reckons it wants to style and position its impending range of high(er)-performance hybrid models.
What we know for sure is that this is a hybrid, and that’s about it. Toyota has remained mum on specific figures, only going as far to say that it’ll be more powerful than the 90kW that’s presently available from the atmo C-HR in some markets (we get a turbo). Since this high-powered concept car won’t talk about its actual power, we’ll have to find something else to talk about.
No doubt you’d have noticed the matte silver paint job and orange highlights. That marks out the Hy-Power concept from its more vanilla brethren, along with the big diamond-cut alloys that the car rides on. No reprofiled bumpers here, or even a lowered ride height; they just slapped some paint on bits of the car and went on their merry way.
Whomever was in charge of the cabin did a slightly better job, applying more orange paint on more surfaces, stitching the seats in a dizzying sort of way, and then claiming that it’s inspired by molten lava inside of hardened rocks. In case we missed them, a smattering of black and dark-chrome bits finish off this “high-power” model, because obviously paint makes cars faster.
Maybe tomorrow they’ll claim the car can fly, too.
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