Toyota RAV4 Hybrid Sapphire concept
Toyota Europe’s newsroom
accidentally published a press release and soon took it offline. Well, here’s
the 2016 Geneva Motor Show surprise Toyota was trying to hide – the Toyota RAV4
Hybrid Sapphire concept.
On display alongside the highly
anticipated Toyota C-HR hybrid crossover, the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid Sapphire show
car indicates future developments.
Toyota Europe isn’t suggesting any
technical changes in the RAV4 Hybrid by mentioning “future developments”
though. The Toyota RAV4 Hybrid was introduced in Europe as the company’s first
hybrid compact crossover late last year, and its conceptual version in Geneva
only represents cosmetic features that will be made available in the future.
The Toyota RAV4 Hybrid Sapphire concept
features a unique blue body paint and body-coloured bumpers and side sills. The
side sills have an extra chrome trim and feature a ‘RAV4 Hybrid’ blue badge.
Inside, the RAV4 Hybrid Sapphire concept is given extra premium appeal with
leather upholstery with blue stitching, Piano black inserts on the console and
Hybrid Blue-painted air vents complete the changes.
Toyota wraps up its announcement saying
that a full body colour version of the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid will be available in the
future, and as for the availability of the other design elements shown with the
RAV4 Hybrid Sapphire concept, it will be monitoring the customer reactions to
make a decision.
