OMODA 5 SHS-H Knight vs Yaris Cross Icon: the UK OTR gap

The OMODA here is the UK OMODA 5 SHS-H Knight. It is the self-charging petrol hybrid, rather than the 1.6-litre petrol Knight or the battery-electric E5. The national model page separates those powertrains. Lookers also lists the 1.5T SHS-H Knight 1DHT as a brand-new car to order, which establishes an active UK sales route rather than a promise of a vehicle sitting at your nearest showroom.

For Toyota, this is the new 2027-model Yaris Cross Icon Hybrid 130. Toyota announced orders on 26 August 2026 and stated customer deliveries from September. Its current UK model page shows 130 DIN hp. Earlier 2026 Icon price lists showing 116 hp are a different reference; do not use those figures as the specification of the new car in this comparison. Ask both retailers to put the model year, powertrain, grade, colour and expected delivery on the quotation.

A listing or order opening does not establish your local allocation, collection date or the equipment on a particular stock car. Those details matter especially when an older registration-year car is offered beside a newer model-year order.

The current OMODA model page advertises the SHS-H from £25,755 OTR. The matching Lookers Knight listing uses £25,755 as its RRP and cash price. Toyota’s current UK entry reference is £27,445, also the Icon OTR figure in its new-model launch table. Subtracting those published starting points gives £1,690. It is not a dealer discount, a comparison of finance repayments, or a forecast of money left after ownership.

Toyota explains that its base-grade OTR reference includes VAT, first-year Vehicle Excise Duty, delivery, plates and registration, while extras such as paint and personalisation are excluded. OMODA’s pricing table separately builds up its OTR figure from retail price, delivery and registration-related charges. Have each retailer itemise the final supplied-car quotation, including any paint, accessories, fees and incentives, before treating the difference as your budget headroom.

The Lookers page also contains a PCP example with its own deposit, optional final payment, mileage allowance and offer period. That is a different way of paying. A lower monthly headline can leave a larger final payment or different ownership position. Compare the full proposals on the same basis; neither a monthly headline nor this entry-price subtraction establishes the cheaper contract.

Both cars use petrol and an electric hybrid system without an external charging routine. This removes the need to arrange a charge point for either shortlist entry. It does not turn petrol into free energy, or give either car the electric-only trip promise of a battery-electric vehicle. OMODA’s SHS-H is also different from the SHS-P plug-in label used elsewhere in the group.

OMODA lists 224 PS for the SHS-H. Toyota lists 130 DIN hp for the new Yaris Cross powertrain. Keep the manufacturers’ stated output units and system descriptions attached to those figures; do not add engine and motor ratings together. The figures do not demonstrate how smoothly either car joins traffic, how it sounds on a hill, or how easily you can judge its response in a tight car park.

I would drive the same urban and faster-road route with the same usual passengers. Try gentle pull-away, a normal merge, low-speed manoeuvring and a hill if one is part of your week. Pay attention to the transition between engine and electric assistance rather than choosing from the larger output number alone. We have not driven or measured this pair.

The linked UK OMODA handbook lets the reader select O5 - Knight SHS-H. That selected column lists a 12.3-inch central display and a 12.3-inch instrument display. The new Toyota launch specification gives Icon a 9-inch multimedia touchscreen. The relevant comparison is therefore the central display you will use; the OMODA instrument screen is not a second central screen that should be added to its size.

A larger display gives more physical area, but its dimensions do not establish that menus, lettering or routine operations are easier for you. Set your normal driving position and ask for a demonstration of navigation, a phone connection and the climate controls. Work through the same short tasks while parked. Check whether you can return to the required page without an unwanted sequence of taps.

Do not bring equipment from OMODA Noble or Toyota Excel into this grade comparison. If a feature changes your decision, ask for the order’s equipment list and a demonstration in the actual derivative. An attractive showroom car is not proof that its equipment is included on your quoted car.

The selected OMODA Knight SHS-H handbook column lists 18-inch alloy wheels. Toyota’s new Icon specification lists 16-inch alloys. That is a useful difference to take to a tyre retailer and to a test drive; it is not, by itself, a measured ride-comfort or tyre-cost result.

Record the full tyre size and load specification on each offered car before requesting replacement prices. Diameter alone is not enough to identify the tyre you would buy. Include the kind of potholes, speed humps and road surfaces you actually encounter in the drive, keeping tyre pressures and vehicle condition appropriate.

Then load the people and bags you normally carry. We have not established a matched seat-position and boot-measurement comparison for these exact derivatives, so there is no luggage-volume winner here. Check passenger access, the back-seat position you need, and the bags with those seats occupied. Do not exchange usable passenger space for a larger advertised maximum you would never use.

OMODA’s linked UK brochure describes a vehicle warranty of seven years or 100,000 miles, whichever comes first, with no mileage limit for the first three years. Toyota’s current Service Activated Warranty page describes eligible services activating cover until the next scheduled routine service, with eligible services available until the vehicle reaches ten years or 100,000 miles, whichever comes first.

These are different structures. Toyota’s headline is not an unconditional ten-year factory warranty requiring no further action, and OMODA’s headline is not proof that every component and every kind of use receives identical cover. Ask for the supplied car’s vehicle and hybrid-component terms, exclusions and servicing obligations. The battery-electric warranty material on a manufacturer’s wider website should not be transferred to these petrol hybrids.

For a buyer who already has a convenient Toyota service relationship and is willing to maintain the eligible-service routine, that arrangement can justify keeping Icon on the shortlist despite the higher entry reference. If the OMODA quotation is more attractive, check who will actually service it and how a warranty appointment is arranged. Neither warranty duration establishes future repair speed, local parts availability, resale value or reliability for this pair.