Daily Archives: August 8, 2012

ECOmove QBEAK Electric City Car Revealed

A new automaker from Denmark called ECOmove has released details about their upcoming QBEAK electric city vehicle.

This new compact electric city car features sliding doors, a panoramic glass roof and plastic body panels that can be easily replaced. The QBEAK is just 3metres long, 1.75metres wide and 1.63metres tall.

Overfinch Evoque – £89,995 to you, squire

Overfinch, the Range Rover tuning specialists have introduced an Evoque at more than twice the price of the standard car. It must be the period for vastly expensive 4x4s – yesterday we covered the £123K Mercedes G63 AMG, which makes the Overfinch Evoque look almost sensible.

UK car sales rise in July

July is never a great month for car sales, but registrations did rise 9.3% to 144,000 units, according to figures from the trade body, SMMT.It now looks like the total UK car market will grow to 2.0 million units in 2012, but that is still well below its pre-recession peak of over 2.5 million. The problem for the car manufacturers is that Southern Europe is dropping like a stone, which means they are trying to divert sales to the UK. That is going to mean some very big discounts as manufacturers try and force cars down the throat of the UK market.