Max DC charge rate<\/strong><\/td>\n| 70kW<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n The first is a single-motor, front-wheel drive variant with a 49kWh battery pack and a 106kW\/193Nm electric motor. This Urban Cruiser will run 0-100km\/h in a claimed 9.6 seconds and is said to be able to travel up to 344km on a single charge.<\/p>\n In the middle is a longer-range, front-wheel drive Cruiser with a 61kWh battery pack. While it gains no more torque, peak power climbs to 128kW, trimming the claimed 0-100km\/h time to 8.7 seconds. This is also the longest-legged of the newest Toyota EV family, with up to 426km of range.<\/p>\n Topping the lineup off is the sole dual-motor Urban Cruiser, the all-wheel drive car picking up a secondary electric motor on its back axle and utilising the 61kWh battery. Power is up again, albeit only marginally to 135kW, but torque output leaps significantly as a result of the second motor, to a peak of 307Nm.<\/p>\n That again cuts the claimed 0-100km\/h sprint, to a respectable 7.4 seconds, but the payoff is reduced range \u2013\u00a0 to 395km.<\/p>\n The problem with the Toyota Urban Cruiser is that it is subject to the same limitations as the Suzuki, with respect to its electrical system. A maximum DC fast-charging rate of 70kW in this day and age is substandard, even if 11kW AC charging is acceptably competitive. <\/p>\n Therefore, at best, a 10-80 per cent top-up of the battery on the fastest public connection will still need 45 minutes of hook-up. With an 11kW AC three-phase power supply, 15-100 per cent charging in the Urban Cruiser should take six hours. On a more typical 7kW wallbox, that increase to 9.5 hours.<\/p>\n How does the Toyota Urban Cruiser drive?<\/h4>\nThere\u2019s no polite way of saying it, but the Urban Cruiser\u2019s primary ride is shockingly poor. <\/p>\n \n \n \n \n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/images.carexpert.com.au\/resize\/960\/-\/cms\/v1\/media\/2025-12-2026toyota-urban-cruiser-graphite-grey-fwddynamic005.jpg\") <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Italy might be a lovely and scenic place to launch a car, but the woeful state of some of its roads only shows up how bad the Toyota is at dealing with anything bigger than a medium-sized compression of its springs.<\/p>\n The Cruiser amplifies only moderately sunken manhole covers and dimples in the road into big, uncomfortable moments, and it\u2019s shocking how noisy and ill-mannered it is in the wake of really big hits to its underpinnings.<\/p>\n Neither the lighter single-motor nor heavier AWD variants are better at dealing with this stuff, so don\u2019t go expecting added weight to settle the Toyota down on its springs.<\/p>\n Sure, if you end up on really smooth tarmac, then the Urban Cruiser rolls along acceptably \u2013 albeit there\u2019s a bit more road noise than we\u2019d like. <\/p>\n \n \n \n \n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/images.carexpert.com.au\/resize\/960\/-\/cms\/v1\/media\/2025-12-2026toyota-urban-cruiser-graphite-grey-fwddynamic002.jpg\") <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n But, as we all know, really smooth tarmac is the exception rather than the rule, and it\u2019s commensurately hugely frustrating that a car called the Urban Cruiser doesn\u2019t actually work brilliantly in an urban environment at all.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s the poor electrical efficiency. We wouldn\u2019t say we drove the Urban Cruiser particularly hard, either as the AWD or in single-motor, 61kWh format, and yet neither car managed to better a dreadful 25kWh\/100km. The weather in Italy was mild, too, so it wasn\u2019t like the cold was sapping power from the battery needlessly.<\/p>\n At that sort of consumption, you\u2019d be getting a maximum of circa-240km from the Urban Cruiser, not 395km. And it\u2019s probably best we don\u2019t point out that the front-wheel drive Toyota, supposedly easier on its battery, turned in a worse figure when driven later on the same day.<\/p>\n Now, while searing speed is not essential in a small, compact crossover, it\u2019s a shame the single-motor Urban Cruiser is so weedy. Quite how Suzuki has managed to get less than 200Nm from an electric motor of 128kW is unfathomable, so the single-motor Cruiser does feel thoroughly undernourished. The dual-motor AWD is, at least, better in this regard.<\/p>\n \n \n \n \n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/images.carexpert.com.au\/resize\/960\/-\/cms\/v1\/media\/2025-12-2026toyota-urban-cruiserlunar-white-awddynamic010.jpg\") <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\nAs for the handling, it\u2019s all rather so-so. <\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot of body movement from the Urban Cruiser, because despite the fact it has a lumpen feel when dealing with bumps in the road, the suspension is quite soft so the shell of the car can list about under duress.<\/p>\n Couple in light, feel-free steering and brakes which are nothing more than acceptable, and you won\u2019t really want to throw the Toyota around. Fun to drive, this thing is not.<\/p>\n Sure, if you drive the Urban Cruiser in an incredibly gentle and sedate fashion, and you stick to better-made roads, then it\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n \n \n \n \n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/images.carexpert.com.au\/resize\/960\/-\/cms\/v1\/media\/2025-12-2026toyota-urban-cruiserlunar-white-awddynamic012.jpg\") <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Yet almost any other comparable electric crossover like this will do the same job to the same sort of standard, only it will layer on top superior low-speed and motorway ride comfort, or it\u2019ll handle with a lot more sparkle than this, or it\u2019ll give you far better real-world electrical consumption and therefore range, or it\u2019ll do all three of these things to a higher standard than the Toyota does.<\/p>\n We\u2019re not sure what the Urban Cruiser does, from a dynamic perspective, which makes it a must-have buy in this sector. To us, it feels way off the pace of the prevailing class standards, and it\u2019s nothing like as good as Toyota\u2019s other in-house EVs or electrified products either.<\/p>\n What do you get?<\/h4>\nWe don\u2019t know what any Australian specification of the Toyota Urban Cruiser would look like, should it be confirmed for our market.<\/p>\n Going by its European structure, equipment is broadly linked to each of the three drivetrain specs \u2013 so there\u2019s a certain level of kit on the basic 106kW model, which is then added to for the 61kWh, 128kW front-drive Cruiser, before the AWD gets even more toys.<\/p>\n As a result, we\u2019d expect the following equipment to be standard on even a basic car.<\/p>\n 2026 Toyota Urban Cruiser equipment highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- 18-inch alloys<\/li>\n
- Integrated display system\n
\n- 10.25-inch digital instrument cluster <\/li>\n
- 10.1-inch infotainment touchscreen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Adaptive cruise control<\/li>\n
- Blind spot monitor<\/li>\n
- Pre-collision system<\/li>\n
- Rear-view camera<\/li>\n
- Lane-trace assist<\/li>\n
- Sliding rear-seat system<\/li>\n
- Heat pump<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Stepping up to the mid-grade model should bring:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Heated steering wheel<\/li>\n
- Heated front seats<\/li>\n
- Heated door mirrors<\/li>\n
- Wiper de-icer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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