The Toyota C-HR public preview has now begun in Malaysia, with the highly-anticipated model making its first stop at the Toyota showroom in Section 19, Petaling Jaya. 

The car you see here is the same show car that was presented to us earlier in May this year, which was brought in from Australia. As a result, the specifications here do not fully represent the local-spec version we will get, but it will be close to it.


Where a 1.8 litre Dual VVT-i petrol engine will power the Malaysian-spec C-HR, under the bonnet of this show car is an 8NR-FTS 1.2 litre turbocharged four-pot (115 PS/185 Nm) instead. Both mills are paired with a CVT that sends drive to the front wheels.

The car you see here also comes with the Toyota Safety Sense suite that includes systems such as Pre-Collision Safety, Active Cruise Control, Lane Departure Alert, Autonomous Emergency Braking, Forward Collision Warning and Automatic High Beam.


As for the rest of the equipment, there’s 4.2-inch multi-info display within the instrument cluster, halogen projector headlights with LED DRLs, dual-zone automatic air-con, 17-inch alloy wheels and fabric seats. Once again, these specifications may or may not make it to C-HR that Malaysians will get, so keep that in mind.

Aside from the engine and transmission, UMW Toyota revealed the local-spec C-HR will receive follow-me-home headlights, puddle lights, UMW Toyota head unit and rear cross traffic alert (also found on the Australian-spec car together with a blind spot monitor).


You’ll also notice the cabin’s diamond theme, with the motif seen on the door cards, headliner, buttons and door sills. There are soft-touch plastics on the top of the dashboard, which is “quite impressive” and “above the class average,”.