Toyota has confirmed that its C-HR concept car, being shown off in Frankfurt in mildly updated form, will become its Qashqai-rivalling Auris Cross, with a full production version due to be shown at the Geneva Motor Show next March.
While it's making us wait, Toyota is saying that the slightly revised styling of the C-HR concept is pretty close to that of the finished production model, albeit the car you'll be able to buy won't have that dramatic roofline. It will have a 'floating' roof though, accentuated by black-painted roof pillars, and the 'diamond-cut' surfacing of the lower body, meant to remind one of a precision cut gemstone, should make it (mostly) through to production.
On the mechanical front, all we know for certain for now is that it will ride on Toyota's new TNGA modular chassis, but the links to the Auris name should mean that it will use the same family of 1.2-litre petrol turbo, 1.6-litre turbo diesel and 1.8-litre electric hybrid as the hatchback and estate models.
Toyota says that the C-HR (and the eventual Auris Cross) are part of the "promise by Toyota's global president Akio Toyoda to build always better cars that bring the fun back to driving." It will sit beneath the current RAV4 in the Toyota range.