• The free part now lasts 15 days, dealer license included: buy, fix and sell cars before you decide. • Regulars are here: a taxi driver, a teacher, a car dealer and a DIY uncle keep coming back, each with a story of their own. • 15 new customers: fresh faces, from taxi drivers to heart surgeons, from farmers to factory owners. • Livelier haggling: customers and mechanics no longer repeat the same lines, and you can offer a mechanic less than he asks. • Car ads now talk: "Paintwork purists, please don't call", "minor fender bender"… Read between the lines or pay for an inspection. • Cheap parts bite back: the next morning the customer is at your door, "Same noise again!". Fix it for free or turn them away. • Winter tire week: when the cold sets in, tire and alignment jobs pour in. • Fixes: the second lift now works, the shutter no longer gets stuck, and a few small bugs are gone.

Performance and stability improvements, small fixes.

• On an evening when the book closes in the black, the game may ask once whether you would rate it on the App Store. The old mechanic asks; answer LATER and he does not press.

• The settings gear is now reachable while a customer is at the counter: on a fresh install the path to the full game opens from the very first screen • Fixed the shop screen's touch layer — tapping the gear now opens Settings, not the inspection • Store text refreshed: new name, new subtitle, rewritten description

Car King is now a free download. The first seven in-game days are yours in full; a one-time "Full Game" purchase keeps the shop open past day eight as well. No ads, no subscription. Everyone who bought the game while it was paid keeps everything. You pay nothing and never see the unlock screen. Also: haggling numbers move more smoothly now, plus a handful of fixes.

Squashed a couple of bugs — some text was appearing in the wrong language on certain screens, and your apprentice's cleaning/washing tasks could sometimes get stuck instead of finishing. Both are fixed now.