Corolla Cross Sales Are Soaring Without the Hybrid

Toyota Corolla Cross sales are up 22.9% this year, but the growth is coming almost entirely from the gas model, while sales of the Corolla Cross Hybrid have fallen by 43.5%.

Toyota sold 90,131 Corolla Crosses through September, up from 73,341 a year earlier, and only 13,905 of them were hybrids, down from 24,594. That leaves about 76,200 gas models, a gain of roughly 56% from about 48,700 at the same point in 2025. The hybrid’s share of Corolla Cross sales has dropped from about one in three to fewer than one in six.

Those figures come from Toyota Motor North America’s September and third-quarter sales report, which lists the hybrid separately in its electrified-vehicle table, and the gas numbers are the difference between the two lines. The trend held in September, when the Corolla Cross sold 9,776, up 53.1%, while the hybrid fell 17.8% to 1,821.

The split started before this year. Toyota’s 2025 sales report counted 99,798 Corolla Crosses for the full year, up 7.3% from 93,021 and the model’s best year so far, but Corolla Cross Hybrid sales fell 16.6% to 29,422. At this year’s pace, the Corolla Cross will pass that record before the end of the year, because it needs fewer than 9,700 more sales in the fourth quarter, which is about what it sold in September by itself.

The hybrid’s slide runs against the rest of Toyota’s lineup. Toyota said its division reached a best-ever electrified mix of 61% in September, and the Camry is now sold only as a hybrid, so the Corolla Cross is moving the other way. Toyota division sales overall are up just 1.2% this year, which means the Corolla Cross is growing far faster than the brand around it.

Toyota is trimming the hybrid lineup for 2027 as well. The Hybrid S has been dropped, which makes the $31,415 SE the entry-level hybrid, while the gas Corolla Cross still starts at $25,535 for the L.

The Toyota Report Take

The gas Corolla Cross is winning because it is an affordable crossover from a brand people trust, and buyers stretching for a manageable payment are choosing it over a hybrid that costs several thousand dollars more. The hybrid is the better car to own, with 42 mpg combined and standard all-wheel drive, but Toyota is not pricing it to win that comparison. With the Hybrid S gone for 2027, the cheapest hybrid sits $5,880 above the gas L, and that is a hard number to sell to a shopper watching the monthly payment.