ROAD TESTS

TOYOTA COROLLA CROSS HYBRID 1,8 XR CVT

e bonded with the Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid over the summer holidays due to its practicality, frugality, and perky nature. This spacious crossover/SUV is the latest Corolla model and represents the core characteristics of Corolla, the world’s top-selling model, which over 12 generations sold over 50 million cars globally since 1966. Being locally produced in Durban, the Cross is very important to South Africa due to job creation, industry viability and export value. It uses Toyota’s modular TNGA platform, which underpins the hatch, sedan and SUV model ranges as seen in C-HR, Prius, RAV4 and 12th-generation Corolla models. Some of the platform’s characteristics are excellent ride quality