{"id":316,"date":"2005-02-13T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-13T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2005-02-13T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-13T19:04:00","slug":"vroom-vroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Vroom vroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the report on the Auto Show.<\/p>\n<p>Surprises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ability of Buffalonians to consume food and beer.  Amazes me every time.<\/li>\n<li>Some dude giving away free samples of Viagra.  Oh, I thought about it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>    The <a href=\"http:\/\/content2.us.porsche.com\/prod\/cayenne\/cayenne.nsf\/usaenglish\/highlightsintro\">Porsche Cayenne<\/a>.  Why?<\/li>\n<li>    Where was Audi?<\/li>\n<li>    What&#8217;s a guy got to do to find a car that isn&#8217;t an SUV, isn&#8217;t a boy racer, and isn&#8217;t an old man car?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> I saw some very nice vehicles today.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/bastart.blogspot.com\/2005\/02\/pilgrimage_03.html\">GT <\/a>(g) was there, and it was pleasure to view again.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stangnet.com\/2005shelbycobraconcept\/\">Shelby Cobra<\/a> occupied a pedestal, ready to be worshipped, as well it should.  Surprisingly cool dashboard on that car.  They had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodge.com\/viper\/index.html\">Viper<\/a>(g) there; always nice.  Points for creativity go to Jaguar for bringing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesbond.com\/mmpr\/index.php?cat=cars&#038;id=jaguarxkr\">XKR <\/a>(g) from <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Die Another Day<\/span>, complete with rear-mounted gatling gun.  Why did I not bring a camera?<\/p>\n<p>So, aside from the supercars, I didn&#8217;t really see a whole lot that did much for me.  I want a car with 6 cylinders with price tag in the low twenties that isn&#8217;t a Scion.  Since I drive a Grand Am now, I sat in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pontiac.com\/g6\/\">G6<\/a>.  Enh.  The biggest surprise for me was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzukiauto.com\/sr_05\/verona\/\">Suzuki Verona<\/a>, just about the only car there that fit the bill.  I&#8217;ll keep it in mind.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the cars with (g) after them are driveable in Gran Turismo 4.  Heh heh heh&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the report on the Auto Show. Surprises: The ability of Buffalonians to consume food and beer. Amazes me every time. Some dude giving away free samples of Viagra. Oh, I thought about it. Questions: The Porsche Cayenne. Why? Where was Audi? What&#8217;s a guy got to do to find a car that isn&#8217;t an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}