Toyota Urban Cruiser Hyryder or Toyota Hyryder in short is a grant vehicle born in collaboration with Toyota and Maruti Suzuki. It shares the production platform with Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara. Both of these vehicles are rolling out from Toyota's same plant. The price of the Hyryder starts at Rs.11 Lakh and goes up to Rs.18.99 Lakh ex.showroom. It is a nice SUV in all sense, let's look it in details.
The Hyryder available in two engine options, with Strong-Hybrid & Mild-Hybrid variants. The car is also available with Manual, Automatic and also in an eCVT transmission options. An All-Wheel Drive variant is also available with the manual variant.
Maruti Suzuki's K15 Dual-Jet 4 cylinder petrol engine is powering the Mild-Hybrid versions of the Hyryder. It churns out 103PS power and 137Nm Torque. This engine is mated with a 5 speed manual and a 6 speed Torque converter gear box. Both the gear boxes works well with this engine and providing excellent and comfortable driving experience. You won't even find any lag at lower RPMs as the mild-hybrid system assists the engine whenever it required. The cabin of the car is very silent with this four cylinder engine.
On the other hand, the Strong-Hybrid version is powered by a 3-Cylinder engine from Toyota. This engine is little noisier than the 4 cylinder K15 series engine. The 3 cylinder engine with its Strong-Hybrid electric motor set up produces a combined power output of 113PS. It is mated with an eCVT transmission option. It is a good engine and gear box combination.
Another intersting feature is its all electric drive mode. You can drive it in all electric mode if the self charging battery is sufficiently charged! It's cool right?
Hyryder is also provided with ride modes namely, Eco and Power. The car gets more milage or range in the Eco mode and it reduces with the Sport mode.
Aesthetically Hyryder is a beautiful SUV. It comes with beautiful DRLs and LED projector headlights. These headlights are provided on the bumper. Toyota logo is provided at front. A big airdam and a skid plate are making it an SUV from front view.
From the sides, you can see the 17 inch Alloy wheels. Black cladding is provided on sides and also on the wheel arches of the car. Door handles are provided in body colour and the ORVMs are in black. Turn indicators are fixed on these ORVMs. Overall the car looks good from sides.
It looks attractive from rear too. You can see the skid plate at the bottom. Indicators, Reverse light and reflectors are provided on the bumper. The shape of the bumper giving it a muscular look from the rear. It has the boot space of 300 liter, which can be enlarged by folding the rear 60:40 split seats.
The Hyryder is provided with a nice and premium interior. Touch and feel of the dashboard is good. Front seats are ventilated. All doors are provided with bottle holders and a storage space is available under the front armrest. It also has a decent glove box. Wireless mobile charger along with 2 USB and a 12V charging points are provided at the front.
At the dashboard you will get a nice touch screen infotainment system. It is coming with lot of connectivity features like remote engine start/stop, A/c on/off, voice assist etc. It also supports AndroidAuto and Apple CarPlay and having 360 Dgree camera display too.
The touch and feel of the steering is also very premium. It is a tilt and telescopic steering wheel. Cruise control and volume control switches are provided on it. Toyota logo is beautifully placed on the steering wheel. You will get a 7 inch driver side display, which will provide all the car related information to the driver.
A head-up display provided on the driver side is a premium feature with the Hyryder, this screen can provide several information like vehicle speed, range, time, navigation, A/c fan speed etc. which helps the driver to access the information without looking on the meter console and A/c controls. This is the same system which is provided with the Maruti Brezza , Baleno and Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara.
The back seat comfort of the car is also very comfortable. Three people can sit in the Hyryder quiet comfortably. Three adjustable headrests are provided.
The cabin feels more roomy because of the large window and the panoramic sun-roof. The Hyryder is a very good car with its interior space and it's premium interior look.
At the safety front, it is loaded with lot of safety features.
- Six airbags
- hill-hold assist
- Hill-decent control ( available with All wheel drive variants only)
- 360 Degree camera
- Tire-Pressure monitoring system
- Auto-dimming IRVM
- ABS with EBD
- Disc brakes on all wheels.
These are only some important safety features of the Hyryder. For details you can check it from Toyota's website.
To conclude, the Hyryder is a nice and spacious car with great mileage of 27.75km. Moreover, being a Toyota customer means no need to worry about the after sales support and will get a hassle free ownership experience. Definitely you can consider it if in search of an SUV in the price range of 11 to 20 Lakh.
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