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What Women Want: The 2012 Evoque Named Women's World Car of the Year
Guest post contributed by Elizabeth Bailey, on behalf of Silver Star Motors.
The first Women’s World Car of the Year award was given in 2009, marking the dawn of a new and exciting period in auto development. Women have become the fastest growing consumer demographic in many areas previously dominated by men, including auto purchases. The Women’s World award is based on various criteria specifically aimed at the modern independent female driver. Safety, sex appeal and fuel efficiency are a few of the criteria used in judging a car’s drivability.
The 2012 Range Rover Evoque has been named the Women’s World Car of the Year for 2012. The Evoque offers excellent handling and braking capabilities and a powerful four cylinder engine. Stylish though it may be, the Evoque is also quite the off-road vehicle; it is capable of 240 horsepower with 250 pounds per foot of torque. This is possible because of the Evoque’s supercharged 2.0 liter engine, which provides excellent performance with easy handling. Therefore, most women who try the Evoque find it comfortable and easy to drive despite its impressive power.
One category that played a large role in the 2012 Women’s World Car of the Year award was family friendliness. The interior of the Evoque is relatively average; many of its interior features are similar to those found in many other luxury SUVs. It is the exterior, however, that makes the Evoque ideal for the modern woman. The Evoque is the only two-door compact SUV available. This gives the Evoque a huge advantage over other compact SUVs, because the Evoque also comes in a four-door model. These two options make the Evoque equally ideal for both single independent woman and mothers with several children, since the four-door option is perfect for women with even large families. This versatility gives the Evoque a significant advantage over competing compact SUVs. Most of the vehicles up for the award accommodated families, but it was the Evoque alone that offered a sexier independent exterior option as well.
A major aspect of the Women’s World Car of the Year award is safety. The Evoque offers a wide variety of industry-leading safety features, including driver, passenger, side and thorax airbags. It also comes with anti-lock brakes, emergency brake lights and hill start assist.
The Women’s World Car of the Year award is separated into four categories: luxury cars, sports cars, economy cars and family cars. The vehicle rated best in all these categories combined is given the title of Women’s World Car of the Year. The Evoque achieved this title by combining style and luxury while still holding its own as an efficient family car. The well rounded Range Rover Evoque is 2012’s ideal vehicle for the independent woman, offering options other compact SUVs do not.
Female motoring writers from all over the world were brought together to judge all the vehicles released in 2012. Each car was scrupulously analyzed and criticized to find the one that offered the optimal blend of efficiency, comfort and aesthetic appeal for the woman of 2012. The Evoque impressed judges in all categories and claimed its position as 2012’s best vehicle for women worldwide.
Dodgy roads? How about this dodgy path…
Remember the blog post from a couple of years ago where we featured the infamous ‘Bolivian Highway’? Well that’s nothing compared the the footpath featured below and filmed with a handycam.
Yes I know this is a car blog and it is, I admit it’s a tenuous automotive link but it’s well worth a share … unless you don’t like heights.
This is the ‘El Caminito del Rey’ (Kings Pathway) – an old abandoned walkway in Spain built in the early 1900’s to support workers activities at the nearby hydroelectric plant.
$1.5m Supercar abandoned in the desert.
Backpackers often abandon their old car when they’ve finished tripping around Australia and return for home, British backpackers amongt them. But they wouldn’t abandon it if it was a Ferrari, and not just any Ferrari either.
This hugeley rare Ferrari Enzo (only 399 made) and worth an expected $1.5 m was apparently abandoned by a British ‘backpacker’ in Dubai a while ago and now it’s coming up for auction. OK, he probably wasn’t a backpacker, but he was protective of his freedom. You see, being in debt is a jailable offence in Dubai, so it’s not that uncommon for foreign businessman to abandon their cars when they make ‘a rapid exit’ from this middle east nation. But abandon cars are usually fairly mundane machines, so this fleeing Brit must have incurred massive debts before his early departure 18 month ago..
The car, along with a over 100 others abandoned cars, will form part of a Police auction in Dubai today, and is expected to raise well in excess of a million dollars.
FOOTNOTE:- It seems that the Dubai police pulled the car from sale amid world wide publicity, claiming that it is still needed for evidence of crime. It may be re-listed as soon as their enquiries are complete.
Blazingly Quick Lambo
Lamborghinis are undoubtedly quick cars, but did you also know they are amazingly quick to burn out? A guy on a test drive found out yesterday when his car caught fire and burned to the ground in just a few minutes – as you can see here. That’s over $600,000 in Australian dollars going up in flames!
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