My Mother in Law just traded in her Skoda Roomster for one of these. She likes it but I think its a bit small and plasticy inside with switchgear in odd places. But its a Toyota and should last her a long time.
Hey bob, good little video, the new Yaris hybrid is as you said a great little car, and would recommend it to anyone, your mileage will be fantastic (about 70-80 mpg) I have the older Auris Hybrid that you actually tested years ago and i still see a constant 60-70 mpg with no problems, and if you remember i still do the same as you did in the old video of going to the shops/dropping kids off without using any fuel......dodzo
Sometimes people would buy a car because it produces less emissions, as mad that may seem. Mainly it's because Toyota's hybrids are basically bullet-proof, low-stress appliances. The 1NZ-FXE atkinson engines in these are the belovedly boring 1NZ-FEs, but being atkinsons they have actual compression rations of around 8:1. By having most of the load or torque applied by the electric motors the engines in these have proven to last as long as the chassis itself. Everything about it does. The transmission is 2 electric motors and a pencil sharpener in between. The battery (while in the past unserviceable) now has products that can cell-balance it, maintaining even the most abused and dead hybrid batteries back to new. It's a highly-engineered drivetrain which is admirable. Just come to Ireland and it's not hard to see diesel turbo Audis, VWs, Hyundais and Fords registered in 2010, spraying soot everywhere and wrecking themselves to pieces with stop-start driving. It's interesting how ordinary owners wear these diesels out to near disrepair, who only bought them for cheaper diesel and cheaper motor tax. This is certainly anecdotal evidence, but I've seen friends' and neighbors' diesel Qashqais, Passats, Picassos, Sedonas, Mondeos and so on being sold or scrapped before they reached 10 years old because their turbo gave out, the transmission is slipping or that the rings were worn and the engine kept drinking oil. Surprise maintenance costs of 1000 euro kept on appearing. NCT compliance kept demanding similar or more money to bring exhaust emissions to compliance. That is for an honest repair. But even those who clean their diesels out with a bit of petrol before their test still didn't see the worth of keeping their diesels one year or two down the road.
Hyper Horse all the current diesel fears will effect the markets say 2030 onwards but so since the vast majority of these will be sold at 3 to 5 years old on pcp with a gfv. Lower purchase price is still going to win out with diesel atm However in fairness just looked at the yaris specifically and the hybrid is cheaper so buy that one. Wasn't the same with my auris estate, hybrid was 3k more
The issue is, unless they make these ev vehicles with a min battery distance of say 20 miles and have a plug in charge option. The cost doesn't always make sense, I just bought an auris 1.6d and the cost extra for the hybrid version with the same miles and age as the one I have purchased would have been approx £3k more, based on my mileage etc the slight improvement in fuel economy wouldn't make up for that. If the hybrid gets to be either on par with the diesel price, or as I say can be used plug in, 20 to 30 miles so you don't use the petrol engine that often, it would be worth it but at the moment, the price premium because of extra costs + hybrid ev status symbol tax it isn't necessarily worth it.
Considering the basic yaris petrol is already super economical, why pay more for a hybrid unless you pay london or Paris congestion charge. On a bigger SUV or Avensis then the fuel cut might work and when we ban current diesels
Great review... But i have a couple considerations. We can see on the trip meeter 5.4 L/100Km... it seams good but , i own a 2016 Skoda Fabia 1.2 TSi and driving in Paris i'm getting 6.1 L/100Km. The Fabia is a bigger car and the 1.2 TSi is a old, now discontinued engine (replacede by 1.0 TSi) and the fuel consuption isn't bad enought to justify the premium price asked by Toyota dealers for their Yaris Hybrid. To conclude , i would rather take a renault Zoe ZE 40 for 20.000 € + batteries than a hybrid that doens't realy make the diference to a small displacement turbo petrol. thanks for the great review.
Since Bob didn't answer your question (yet?), I'll give you the mpg of our 2017 Yaris Hybrid: www.spritmonitor.de/en/detail/842930.html The average Yaris Hybrid 2017 mpg is even better with 58,8 mpg: www.spritmonitor.de/en/overview/49-Toyota/1287-Yaris_Hybrid.html?fueltype=2&constyear_s=2017&minkm=10000
Hey Bob, loving your videos, I've been subscribed for a long while and love your no nonsense appraoch to cars :) At the age of 25 I'm finally getting my first car (and insurance...sigh)... Any good suggestions when max budget for a car alone is probably €8000?
Bob Flavin thabks for the suggestions, and keep up the good work!! I've watched your video on how to change a wheel, and it'll be the first of many on my car journey I'm sure :)
The Toyota Yaris a Prius 2 in a smaller package😩. Seriously though, the outside is ok but the interior looks and feels cheap, come on Toyota you can do better
I love all things electric. I'm an avid EV fan too. I've test driven many electric & hybrid cars on the market. I'm keen to try this one. What do you think your average MPG would be based on mixed driving without being heavy footed? I'm a sensible driver and I'm always keeping to the speed limits. Well most of the time 🤗. I would expect to achieve around 65mpg. Please share your thoughts?
My aunt bought one new 171 and she loves it. I drive it and agree with this review - but motorway driving...not much overtaking going to happen there, engine gets stressed v quickly.
My wife is now on her 2nd Yaris Hybrid. Got her current one in October 2016. It is a really good car. We have been having a completion between us to see who can get the highest MPG. I have managed 66.8 MPG. On my wife's commute to work she averages between 58 to 60 MPG. Also the car has a "B" selection on the gear selector which helps to increase the potential charge going to the battery even more. This is used when going down hill to increase engine braking.I have a Ford Fiesta and have in the last few days test driven the New Fiesta. Its a nice car but its now so expensive for what you get. Not even electric windows in the rear on the Titanium trim. Today I test drove the petrol 1.5l Yaris manual and was impressed. So impressed that after many years with a Ford I'm going to order a Toyota Yaris.
66.8 is impressive. But it must be said that B mode in Toyotas is not what you described which is correct for every other electric car today. What B mode does is increase the amperage output of the motor acting against the motion of the car (ie regenerative braking). But what that does is send most of that electricity to the other, smaller generator that would then spin the engine as an air pump. It's not efficient, it's designed to waste energy. Little of it goes into the battery. If you've drove up a big hill like sally gap, you would've experienced the car charge completely on the way down. When it's full the computer would automatically spin the engine at high rpm to get rid of excess energy. The problem is when you do that in D mode and the battery is 100% charged, you can only rely on the hydraulic brakes to slow down.
You can. You can get the pedal to travel 1/3 or 1/2 the way before the engine kicks in. It feels nice. The cars normally feel much more subdued and refined. It works up to a certain speed (~50km/h) until the car's computer deactivates it. But using EV mode is unnecessary. It uses up very little of the electricity the battery has. Most prius owners 10 years ago found out that using EV mode when not needed (like 99% of the time) reduced mpg. It causes the battery to drain quickly and the engine is then required to start much sooner to charge the battery back up. EV mode is however useful when you're sneaking out and sneaking back home at ungodly hours, or to sneak up on mofos when doing a drive-by.
Hydrogen is nothing more than a PR dick-measuring contest between Honda and Toyota. It has only taken them to realise until now how far EV technology has improved in 7 years. They're also realising that their competitors have prototype EV tech that can out-compete their hydrogen fuel cells. Toyota has said that they've been developing solid-state lithium ion batteries that can come to production by 2022. At this time, this is nothing more than PR bullshitting, but if they're true on their word, it should be enough to put Toyota in the middle of the pack. Enough to compete against VW, Geeley (Volvo) or Daimler in the EV market, but still well behind Kia/Hyundai, Nissan/Renault/Mitsubishi, GM and Tesla of course. For a company that bet on hybrids early and gained immensely from it, Toyota's executives were very stubborn on their lack of faith in Electric cars. It's nothing to do with nimh battery technology (of which Chevron owns), but more of a fear of EV sales cannabalising hybrid sales - which is partially true, Prius sales in its strongest markets have fallen and failed to recover because of EVs offered by other manufacturers. Oh, and Honda is practically dead. They have done nothing.
Tom Tom used to get you nearly all the way there. It must have gotten better at the job. Google is always up-to-date even with road works which was something Tom Tom actually started but couldn't get enough users to sign up to be tracked.
It could depend on the country you drive through, I don't know enough about SatNav to have any clever comments about that, all I know is that it worked great in Denmark/Germany/Austria/Switzerland/Czechia and the Netherlands :)
i have a tomtom 5000, the traffic avoidance system regulalry fails due to tomtom servers jamming up, and it often only lets you know about a traffic jam, which you might want to avoid, once you've actually joined said traffic jam.....
Hi Bob, I myself don't like ev because maybe I'm old school but I want the sound of a combustion engine I want to tinker around at the engine etc. I'd actually hate to test drive an ev for fear I mite actually like it. Personally I grew up with larger petrol cars and was a boy racer in the 90s and I still do love the sound of big petrol engines and tbh I don't really care about co2 emissions or the cost of road tax as after all the max we have to pay in Ireland is 2350euro,so I can drive say a 2009 plus Ford focus rs and only have to pay 2350euro road tax. Which means when I drive it it's highly unlikely that I will see even one more focus rs as ppl won't pay the road tax for them. I know we can't stop progress but I really hope I can drive enternal combustion engines until I die. I guy lives near me and he drives a shelby cobra and omg the sound is amazing.
Electric cars are here to save ICE cars from the doom that surrounds them. The classics like that Cobra or the Aston V10 will survive but only if we start to dump the bland grey stuff that's being produced right now.
I bought this France made Piece of junk 2017 with 73000 kilometers and driver side windows stop working went to Toyota dealership try to get fixed under warranty they teling me it's not cover by warranty and they giving me Approximately 200 € i took the car to local auto electric hi faund to brocken vire calming from hearnest buy the door where is going from body to a door is banning all the time and got broken the mechanic told me this is calming problem on almost new car here in Europe i owned 4 Prius made in Japan never had to go for single problem to a mechanic some of them have over 500000 kilometers without a problem and this tipical peace of France made junk giving me problem at 73k two and half year old totally unbelievable French division of Toyota shame on you
Looks great Bob. Really thinking of upgrading my 05 astra for a hybrid car. Any thoughts on what I should look at? Around same size if not slightly bigger.
Depends on specifics. If you want a cheap used car, it's basically a 2004 - 09~11 Prius, the goofy one (or a big, not-cheap 3.5l V6 RX350h). Mine is at 151,000 miles on to odo and when driving it it is actually difficult for me to get less than 54 mpg (trips with passengers, fully loaded boot and heater/demister). At the moment I've been clearing out garden waste (dead and trimmed trees) and bringing it to the local recycling or bring centre. It can honestly move more than the Land Rover Freelander my parents have. Like 2 large (1m^3) garden bags and 5 normal ones. It's honestly a mini-estate car, which the inside is now covered in bark, dirt - and spiders :') ... yay... So I think space wise it would be an upgrade. An Auris hybrid estate is a lovely choice, loads in Rome apparently. However, in the United states at least, 2010-16 Priuses (which the Auris hybrid, CT200h are identical to) are more highly strung and can suffer from cooling problems with comparably smaller components to its predecessor, the 2004 - 09 prius. The yaris hybrid however is much more similar to the older more reliable generation and seems to show it. No idea about its space but given how the likes of the Yaris and Polo have grown massively over the years, it could be bigger than the Astra inside. CHR and new Prius are basically brand new cars. Not much can be said just yet.
The way I'm thinking is that if you want to lessen your environmental impact - especially air quality - but you only have one car then this is the one. I do mainly town driving but, every now and then, I need to do a longer journey and, more often than not, through areas with no, absolutely no, public charge points.
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My Mother in Law just traded in her Skoda Roomster for one of these. She likes it but I think its a bit small and plasticy inside with switchgear in odd places. But its a Toyota and should last her a long time.
Hey bob, good little video, the new Yaris hybrid is as you said a great little car, and would recommend it to anyone, your mileage will be fantastic (about 70-80 mpg) I have the older Auris Hybrid that you actually tested years ago and i still see a constant 60-70 mpg with no problems, and if you remember i still do the same as you did in the old video of going to the shops/dropping kids off without using any fuel......dodzo
What is fuel average of this car ?
Does it consume less fuel than the diesel one? No. I don't see a reason buying it since diesel-powered is more economical while being faster.
MrDieselakias and if like other models cheaper
I do have one, I don't drive it like a grand ma.
Here all my stats since day 1
www.spritmonitor.de/fr/detail/527778.html
Sometimes people would buy a car because it produces less emissions, as mad that may seem.
Mainly it's because Toyota's hybrids are basically bullet-proof, low-stress appliances. The 1NZ-FXE atkinson engines in these are the belovedly boring 1NZ-FEs, but being atkinsons they have actual compression rations of around 8:1. By having most of the load or torque applied by the electric motors the engines in these have proven to last as long as the chassis itself. Everything about it does. The transmission is 2 electric motors and a pencil sharpener in between. The battery (while in the past unserviceable) now has products that can cell-balance it, maintaining even the most abused and dead hybrid batteries back to new.
It's a highly-engineered drivetrain which is admirable. Just come to Ireland and it's not hard to see diesel turbo Audis, VWs, Hyundais and Fords registered in 2010, spraying soot everywhere and wrecking themselves to pieces with stop-start driving. It's interesting how ordinary owners wear these diesels out to near disrepair, who only bought them for cheaper diesel and cheaper motor tax. This is certainly anecdotal evidence, but I've seen friends' and neighbors' diesel Qashqais, Passats, Picassos, Sedonas, Mondeos and so on being sold or scrapped before they reached 10 years old because their turbo gave out, the transmission is slipping or that the rings were worn and the engine kept drinking oil.
Surprise maintenance costs of 1000 euro kept on appearing. NCT compliance kept demanding similar or more money to bring exhaust emissions to compliance. That is for an honest repair. But even those who clean their diesels out with a bit of petrol before their test still didn't see the worth of keeping their diesels one year or two down the road.
+MrDieselakias
Have you been living under a rock? Haven't you heard of fucking Dieselgate??
Hyper Horse all the current diesel fears will effect the markets say 2030 onwards but so since the vast majority of these will be sold at 3 to 5 years old on pcp with a gfv. Lower purchase price is still going to win out with diesel atm
However in fairness just looked at the yaris specifically and the hybrid is cheaper so buy that one.
Wasn't the same with my auris estate, hybrid was 3k more
The issue is, unless they make these ev vehicles with a min battery distance of say 20 miles and have a plug in charge option. The cost doesn't always make sense, I just bought an auris 1.6d and the cost extra for the hybrid version with the same miles and age as the one I have purchased would have been approx £3k more, based on my mileage etc the slight improvement in fuel economy wouldn't make up for that.
If the hybrid gets to be either on par with the diesel price, or as I say can be used plug in, 20 to 30 miles so you don't use the petrol engine that often, it would be worth it but at the moment, the price premium because of extra costs + hybrid ev status symbol tax it isn't necessarily worth it.
Considering the basic yaris petrol is already super economical, why pay more for a hybrid unless you pay london or Paris congestion charge. On a bigger SUV or Avensis then the fuel cut might work and when we ban current diesels
Great review... But i have a couple considerations. We can see on the trip meeter 5.4 L/100Km... it seams good but , i own a 2016 Skoda Fabia 1.2 TSi and driving in Paris i'm getting 6.1 L/100Km.
The Fabia is a bigger car and the 1.2 TSi is a old, now discontinued engine (replacede by 1.0 TSi) and the fuel consuption isn't bad enought to justify the premium price asked by Toyota dealers for their Yaris Hybrid.
To conclude , i would rather take a renault Zoe ZE 40 for 20.000 € + batteries than a hybrid that doens't realy make the diference to a small displacement turbo petrol.
thanks for the great review.
Awesome channel. Coming to Ireland in March 2018 and you give out great advice on everything. Thanks
Did you make it to Ireland yet?
Hi Bob....what kind of mpg is the yaris hybrid giving??
Since Bob didn't answer your question (yet?), I'll give you the mpg of our 2017 Yaris Hybrid: www.spritmonitor.de/en/detail/842930.html
The average Yaris Hybrid 2017 mpg is even better with 58,8 mpg:
www.spritmonitor.de/en/overview/49-Toyota/1287-Yaris_Hybrid.html?fueltype=2&constyear_s=2017&minkm=10000
I have a Toyota Prius and absolutely love it
Love the seats more swanky than my toyota 86. When is this car coming to the USA?
Totally agree on the shopping bag hooks! I use them all the time. It's the little things that matter sometimes.
Thank you for the review. Some reviewers criticised the acceleration in this Yaris, do you agree on that?
Yes and its absolutely wright, in very busy town in traffic's you not using any petrol, used only electric. 👍
Congratulations on your channel. Do you have an opinion on the petrol 1,5 yaris vvti 2017
Cheers! Yaris is a nice car, VVTI is a good engine and you should be able to service it yourself when the warranty ends.
Hey Bob, loving your videos, I've been subscribed for a long while and love your no nonsense appraoch to cars :)
At the age of 25 I'm finally getting my first car (and insurance...sigh)...
Any good suggestions when max budget for a car alone is probably €8000?
Something petrol, small (1ltr ish) and easy to work on. Try Micra, Yaris, Rio that sort of car. Make sure you learn how to fix things yourself!
Bob Flavin thabks for the suggestions, and keep up the good work!!
I've watched your video on how to change a wheel, and it'll be the first of many on my car journey I'm sure :)
The Toyota Yaris a Prius 2 in a smaller package😩. Seriously though, the outside is ok but the interior looks and feels cheap, come on Toyota you can do better
I love all things electric. I'm an avid EV fan too. I've test driven many electric & hybrid cars on the market. I'm keen to try this one. What do you think your average MPG would be based on mixed driving without being heavy footed? I'm a sensible driver and I'm always keeping to the speed limits. Well most of the time 🤗. I would expect to achieve around 65mpg. Please share your thoughts?
My aunt bought one new 171 and she loves it. I drive it and agree with this review - but motorway driving...not much overtaking going to happen there, engine gets stressed v quickly.
How is the Car when braking to a stop? Are they sharp or progressive?
The Interior is Very Funky, I like electric cars, because they have a lot of torque. As always, great video Bob. Keep up the good work
I'm very interested in Hybrid !
Is it available in America and if not can the toyota dealership near me request for one to be sent over?
Interior design looks excellent. Proof that good, interesting design doesn't need to be expensive...
My wife is now on her 2nd Yaris Hybrid. Got her current one in October 2016. It is a really good car. We have been having a completion between us to see who can get the highest MPG. I have managed 66.8 MPG. On my wife's commute to work she averages between 58 to 60 MPG. Also the car has a "B" selection on the gear selector which helps to increase the potential charge going to the battery even more. This is used when going down hill to increase engine braking.I have a Ford Fiesta and have in the last few days test driven the New Fiesta. Its a nice car but its now so expensive for what you get. Not even electric windows in the rear on the Titanium trim. Today I test drove the petrol 1.5l Yaris manual and was impressed. So impressed that after many years with a Ford I'm going to order a Toyota Yaris.
66.8 is impressive. But it must be said that B mode in Toyotas is not what you described which is correct for every other electric car today.
What B mode does is increase the amperage output of the motor acting against the motion of the car (ie regenerative braking). But what that does is send most of that electricity to the other, smaller generator that would then spin the engine as an air pump. It's not efficient, it's designed to waste energy. Little of it goes into the battery.
If you've drove up a big hill like sally gap, you would've experienced the car charge completely on the way down. When it's full the computer would automatically spin the engine at high rpm to get rid of excess energy. The problem is when you do that in D mode and the battery is 100% charged, you can only rely on the hydraulic brakes to slow down.
"B" selection explained:
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius/Driving_tricks
Not only valid for Prius, but for every Toyota hybrid!
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Shopping bag hooks gonna save my ass..!
Bob - can you drive The Toyota Yaris Hybrid just in EV mode and stop the petrol engine from starting at any acceleration ?
You can. You can get the pedal to travel 1/3 or 1/2 the way before the engine kicks in. It feels nice. The cars normally feel much more subdued and refined. It works up to a certain speed (~50km/h) until the car's computer deactivates it.
But using EV mode is unnecessary. It uses up very little of the electricity the battery has. Most prius owners 10 years ago found out that using EV mode when not needed (like 99% of the time) reduced mpg. It causes the battery to drain quickly and the engine is then required to start much sooner to charge the battery back up.
EV mode is however useful when you're sneaking out and sneaking back home at ungodly hours, or to sneak up on mofos when doing a drive-by.
yah ev mode is good for driving slow around car parks
Aren't Toyota championing hydrogen?
Hydrogen is nothing more than a PR dick-measuring contest between Honda and Toyota. It has only taken them to realise until now how far EV technology has improved in 7 years. They're also realising that their competitors have prototype EV tech that can out-compete their hydrogen fuel cells.
Toyota has said that they've been developing solid-state lithium ion batteries that can come to production by 2022. At this time, this is nothing more than PR bullshitting, but if they're true on their word, it should be enough to put Toyota in the middle of the pack. Enough to compete against VW, Geeley (Volvo) or Daimler in the EV market, but still well behind Kia/Hyundai, Nissan/Renault/Mitsubishi, GM and Tesla of course.
For a company that bet on hybrids early and gained immensely from it, Toyota's executives were very stubborn on their lack of faith in Electric cars. It's nothing to do with nimh battery technology (of which Chevron owns), but more of a fear of EV sales cannabalising hybrid sales - which is partially true, Prius sales in its strongest markets have fallen and failed to recover because of EVs offered by other manufacturers.
Oh, and Honda is practically dead. They have done nothing.
I disagree with the Google Maps comment, try a new TomTom system, bought one this summer and I havn't bothered with google maps since.
Tom Tom used to get you nearly all the way there. It must have gotten better at the job. Google is always up-to-date even with road works which was something Tom Tom actually started but couldn't get enough users to sign up to be tracked.
It could depend on the country you drive through, I don't know enough about SatNav to have any clever comments about that, all I know is that it worked great in Denmark/Germany/Austria/Switzerland/Czechia and the Netherlands :)
i have a tomtom 5000, the traffic avoidance system regulalry fails due to tomtom servers jamming up, and it often only lets you know about a traffic jam, which you might want to avoid, once you've actually joined said traffic jam.....
Hi Bob, I myself don't like ev because maybe I'm old school but I want the sound of a combustion engine I want to tinker around at the engine etc. I'd actually hate to test drive an ev for fear I mite actually like it. Personally I grew up with larger petrol cars and was a boy racer in the 90s and I still do love the sound of big petrol engines and tbh I don't really care about co2 emissions or the cost of road tax as after all the max we have to pay in Ireland is 2350euro,so I can drive say a 2009 plus Ford focus rs and only have to pay 2350euro road tax. Which means when I drive it it's highly unlikely that I will see even one more focus rs as ppl won't pay the road tax for them. I know we can't stop progress but I really hope I can drive enternal combustion engines until I die. I guy lives near me and he drives a shelby cobra and omg the sound is amazing.
Electric cars are here to save ICE cars from the doom that surrounds them. The classics like that Cobra or the Aston V10 will survive but only if we start to dump the bland grey stuff that's being produced right now.
Hi Mr Bob!!
Hey dude!
You never showed us the exterior of the car?
Beef or Chicken?
Vegan
Snake
I bought this France made Piece of junk 2017 with 73000 kilometers and driver side windows stop working went to Toyota dealership try to get fixed under warranty they teling me it's not cover by warranty and they giving me Approximately 200 € i took the car to local auto electric hi faund to brocken vire calming from hearnest buy the door where is going from body to a door is banning all the time and got broken the mechanic told me this is calming problem on almost new car here in Europe i owned 4 Prius made in Japan never had to go for single problem to a mechanic some of them have over 500000 kilometers without a problem and this tipical peace of France made junk giving me problem at 73k two and half year old totally unbelievable French division of Toyota shame on you
Looks great Bob. Really thinking of upgrading my 05 astra for a hybrid car. Any thoughts on what I should look at? Around same size if not slightly bigger.
Try an Auris hybrid, Prius, CHR or Lexus CT200h
Depends on specifics.
If you want a cheap used car, it's basically a 2004 - 09~11 Prius, the goofy one (or a big, not-cheap 3.5l V6 RX350h). Mine is at 151,000 miles on to odo and when driving it it is actually difficult for me to get less than 54 mpg (trips with passengers, fully loaded boot and heater/demister). At the moment I've been clearing out garden waste (dead and trimmed trees) and bringing it to the local recycling or bring centre. It can honestly move more than the Land Rover Freelander my parents have. Like 2 large (1m^3) garden bags and 5 normal ones. It's honestly a mini-estate car, which the inside is now covered in bark, dirt - and spiders :') ... yay...
So I think space wise it would be an upgrade.
An Auris hybrid estate is a lovely choice, loads in Rome apparently. However, in the United states at least, 2010-16 Priuses (which the Auris hybrid, CT200h are identical to) are more highly strung and can suffer from cooling problems with comparably smaller components to its predecessor, the 2004 - 09 prius.
The yaris hybrid however is much more similar to the older more reliable generation and seems to show it. No idea about its space but given how the likes of the Yaris and Polo have grown massively over the years, it could be bigger than the Astra inside.
CHR and new Prius are basically brand new cars. Not much can be said just yet.
The way I'm thinking is that if you want to lessen your environmental impact - especially air quality - but you only have one car then this is the one. I do mainly town driving but, every now and then, I need to do a longer journey and, more often than not, through areas with no, absolutely no, public charge points.