{"id":34,"date":"2005-05-04T23:36:02","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T07:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?p=34"},"modified":"2005-05-10T11:44:47","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T19:44:47","slug":"smart-car-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/smart-car-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart car to USA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/autotech\/0,2554,67405,00.html\">Smart car<\/a> sold in Europe, where small cars have a long tradition, may be imported into America.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zapworld.com\/\">Zap<\/a>,  a California importer of electric vehicles, is promoting the car in America.  While the car is made by a Mercedes Benz subsidiary, you won&#8217;t get MB lovers to convert to this car.<\/p>\n<p>It is not merely small; it is tiny &#8212; about  one-half the length of the gas-sipping hybrid Toyota Prius.  It&#8217;s only 8 feet 2 inches long and it weighs about 1,600 pounds. For comparison, the bantam weight Mini Cooper is a hefty?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theautochannel.com\/news\/2004\/08\/05\/207646.html\"> 2,700 pounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The European version achieves 60 miles per gallon, but  the EP says the US version will get 37 mpg.  The car maker has asked for a retest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smart car sold in Europe, where small cars have a long tradition, may be imported into America. Zap, a California importer of electric vehicles, is promoting the car in America. While the car is made by a Mercedes Benz subsidiary, you won&#8217;t get MB lovers to convert to this car. It is not merely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}