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Everyday Driver Car Debate

TestDrive: Toyota Corolla CROSS Hybrid

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Hobbies, Automotive, Leisure

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Corolla cross hybrid you were you were not going I'm going I'm going man I'm

0:06.0

going all right this actually has some resembling power now because here's

0:10.0

what's happened when you take the new great Prius yeah and you actually take

0:14.6

all of that all-wheel-drive running gear and you shove it into the Corolla

0:18.4

cross hybrid which is another place where Toyota said you know we need we need

0:21.6

another five-seat SUV we drove the standard Corolla cross a while back it had

0:26.1

169 horsepower and we didn't love it so here we are doing other things now

0:32.1

we're in the hybrid version which has 196 horsepower including more power

0:35.9

because the hybrid because it is the same system underneath as the Prius

0:40.1

all-wheel-drive I really didn't like the Corolla cross gas-powered car yes yes

0:45.8

you be what are we calling it SUV CV yeah lifted Corolla yeah because it

0:52.0

didn't have enough power yeah and I remember thinking I am looking forward to

0:56.7

the hybrid version because you'll have the torque of an electric motor that

1:00.7

will make it drive like a normal car I'm right and I'm happy that I'm right

1:06.2

didn't have enough before and now it has a decent amount it feels actually

1:09.6

interesting and good and this just makes all kinds of sense because if you're

1:14.1

buying this you were looking at two things first of all dear people start yeah

1:18.5

it's an SUV so it's got space and miles per gallon it's incredibly impressive

1:24.4

45 in the city 38 on highway 42 combined that's really impressive I agree any

1:30.8

five-seat SUV on the market and it feels and drives and accelerates normally

1:35.9

that is a win period Toyota pioneered hybrid tech let me think about it

1:41.8

yeah they did it was 20 plus years ago that the first Prius came out they

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