I8ABMR

I am not feeling this car at all. It looks awkward to me. To each his own

knihc2008

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Because I'm sure no one minds again...


And a minor tweak that I think makes the car look way better... longer window, no rear door handle (would be integrated into the window like the concept and like Alfas), a smaller rear rump (really, why does it stick out SO DAMN MUCH even in the front view?) and front wheel moved up to minimalize the FWD overhang.


I think the car looks way better in real life pics.

spwolf

driver side only...

look at high res pics from autoblog... this car will sell like crazy. Interior is really nice.

spwolf

lots more on autoblog:
http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/gene...-ct-200h-live/

spwolf

p.s. Toyota showed the pics of Auris Hybrid, and it looks as if it lost a lot of its trunk due to batteries, unlike CT200h...

RXSF

do we have a picture of the cargo area of the CT?

TRDFantasy

We don't know what sort of trim we will get the CT here in the US in.

You need to understand this in Europe will be competing with base model A3s and 1 Series models, which seriously lack a lot of luxury features and option. Plus that is the passenger side that lacks power seats in this case.

Not a fan of the tweaked photo. Hiding the rear door handle and making the rear window longer totally throws off the proportions, it just looks really awkward. Also those chopped wheels actually don't do much for the car in real life pics. Believe it or not, I actually think the stock wheels look better for this car in real life pics.

The rear bumper does not stick out that much at all. It is simply sculpted that way, and is cohesive with the front bumper and the character lines on the car. It makes the rear look more interesting.

RXSF

yes, turns out the rims are quite stunning, especially because they have that "graphite" finish

TRDFantasy

The rims have much more detail in the real-life pics, and the graphite finish only adds further appeal. IS-F rims would look slightly overdone on this car.

TorontoIS

The stock rims are quite nice, just +1 sizing them would be nicer though. The car is really growing on me, I'm not sure I could go back to FWD though. I might be waiting for the next generation IS instead. As well, it is missing some nice luxury items that I currently have on my IS including the power memory passenger seat.

spwolf

you get things like heated steering wheel though, which my GS does not have ;-).

spwolf

nope, but standard Auris has trunk similar to the CT200h.... Hybrid Auris has raised up trunk which is very shallow, and probably lost a lot there so CT200h should have quite bigger trunk than Auris Hybrid.

(Cj)

I've seen a price of 24,000 Euros floating around. Quite a bit more than I was expecting but it's about the same price as the 5 door BMW 118i. Do you think the CT would do well at that price?

spwolf

24k Euros is cheaper than base Prius in my country... not sure where that pricing comes from really...

I think it might get 10% cheaper than base IS220d, which is 31k Euros to start.... so hopefully it is 28k Euros or cheaper. IS220d tops out at 45k Euros ;-)

(Cj)

Wow, that's high!

Well according to this article from Autocar the UK price may start around £21,000

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsAr...llCars/247794/

Of course there's no way to know the reliability of the information, this all seems plausible: Although not confirmed, a small SUV and three-door CT200h are set to be spun off this platform.