My TOYOTA CHR ICON 2024 model - Daily driver - Brutally HONEST REVIEW after 15000 miles.

Couldn’t agree more about the distance control , I use it all the time , what’s the point of having this fantastic technology if you are not going to use it , wouldn’t have a car without it now.

A reliable daily driver gives us more money to spend on our classics. 😊

On occasion I have a Nissan Duke or whatever they're called. The last one I had was amazing. It was top of the range and I drove a 500 mile round trip on the BUTTONS! And talk about torque. There's certainly no lack of it! Modern cars are amazing.

We had the original Chr..then replaced it with the latest one ... It had shrunk internally...the side Windows didn't clear when lowered and it became very warm in the rear.....this was again a new car but had to return it to the dealership for a RAV4.... very expensive..

My previous daily was a 2017 1.8 CH-R Dynamic & now I have 2020 2.0 Corolla Excel touring sport (estate). Both were/are brilliant. I only changed to the Corolla as a needed bigger boot. 5 years between them & reliability has been 100% perfect. Economy is very good. 1.8 better than 2.0 but if you want more get up & go & less mpg get the 2.0

Hi Paul. Funny enough had a Toyota Yaris Cross SUV Hybrid 2023 model as a company car on previous employment, so shared a lot of parts / fittings as yours , your dash looks familiar and it also shared same wheels . It was a base model but still well equipped- never used half the gear in there - but that can be said of a lot of moderns. Rear reversing camera handy as visibility at rear not the best , easy to drive , surprisingly, not so economical as the previous diesels who did average 68 mpg , the Yaris about early 60s . Torque characteristics, as you say , mid range very good and engine had a purposeful growl to it - almost like a mini V8 , but if worked really hard , say up very steep hills in the Cotswolds or Herefordshire/ Shropshire areas - sounded as though it was going to throw a rod through the block , bloody awful. Generally quite comfortable, but the suspension was firm despite riding high off the ground, and this showed up on wet leafy country roads when traction was particularly poor. In twenty odd thousand miles the car was reliable - the faults I accumulated were not the cars fault . 4 punctures, a cracked windscreen due to stone throwing up on the motorway, and a young lady crashed into me driving out my home town . I quite liked the auto headlights, although they were a bit lazy to dip with oncoming traffic. The servicing was by Toyota dealership. Funny , 1st service ( somebody gave me an OK mind but a backside I can tell everything going on in a car - RUSH) so I told them tracking needs adjustment. On collection , lady service advisor said tracking was OK , but one tyre over inflated ( I Don’T THINK SO!) . 2nd service, the lady advisor said, oh we’ve JUST BOUGHT A NEW TRACKING MACHINE and found tracking was out ( Hmm , so you’ve just bought a new tracking machine , how nice ! ) . Generally a decent workhorse all the same , thought better screwed together than previous French company cars I had. One final thing , the car once did not momentarily start , it was early evening hours so rang Toyota help line , gave them registration number, name of employer - car was leased- they started it through the dash screen , quite impressive.

A really quirky but interesting vehicle, in a World carpark of 'All the same, look-alike vehicles' Hopefully with Toyota's legendary reliability.... I lived in SA for years, and a company I worked for many years, ran a fleet of Camrys for reps and Hino Vans / Lorries for our warehouse...🙂👍 A radio jingle ran for years, "Everything keeps going right..... Toyota!"