{"id":722524,"date":"2010-04-23T10:49:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=7204"},"modified":"2010-04-23T10:49:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:49:48","slug":"ford-start-minicar-concept-makes-beijing-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/722524","title":{"rendered":"Ford Start Minicar Concept Makes Beijing Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7211\" title=\"start\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/04\/start-600x237.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest disappointments for me at the New York Auto Show was the utter lack of clever concept cars. There was a time when all the automakers were putting forth outrageous, impossible concepts, just because. But everybody has had to tighten their belts a few notches due to the global recession, and the concept cars have, quite frankly, gotten boring.<\/p>\n<p>Leave it to Ford to debut an exciting concept&#8230; in China. Unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show, Ford introduced a new concept car called the &#8220;Start,&#8221; the only aspect of this concept ever destined for production is the three-cylinder EcoBoost engine. But it is still rather pretty.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/23\/ford-start-minicar-concept-makes-beijing-debut\/#more-7204\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest disappointments for me at the New York Auto Show was the utter lack of clever concept cars. There was a time when all the automakers were putting forth outrageous, impossible concepts, just because. But everybody has had to tighten their belts a few notches due to the global recession, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31XC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}