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C-HR Hy-Power Concept juices up Toyota's smallest SUV with hybrid power

Toyota's funky compact crossover gets more power and more attitude.

Chris Paukert
Following stints in TV news production and as a record company publicist, Chris spent most of his career in automotive publishing. Mentored by Automobile Magazine founder David E. Davis Jr., Paukert succeeded Davis as editor-in-chief of Winding Road, a pioneering e-mag, before serving as Autoblog's executive editor from 2008 to 2015. Chris is a Webby and Telly award-winning video producer and has served on the jury of the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards. He joined the CNET team in 2015, bringing a small cache of odd, underappreciated cars with him.
Chris Paukert
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Toyota says 75 percent of all European C-HR sales are the hybrid. This new concept adds an unspecified amount of power to that gas-electric model.

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The C-HR is no shrinking violet visually, but matte paint and orange detailing really makes it even more visually arresting.

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Toyota's ED2 design studio in the south of France worked on the Hy-Power concept. 

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The C-HR was originally designed to be a Scion model in North America, but the model became a Toyota when the Scion brand was folded.

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That's a lot of orange.

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The C-HR already has a diamond design theme to its sheetmetal, and the Hy-Power's new orange accents carry the theme out even further.

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Toyota also offers all-wheel drive in other markets, but not in the States.

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That's matte dark carbon silver paint set off by gloss black and burning orange details.

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The C-HR's aesthetic was never intended to be for everyone, and this Hy-Power treatment is no less assertive.

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