{"id":12650,"date":"2009-05-20T13:21:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T20:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12650"},"modified":"2009-05-20T22:10:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T05:10:30","slug":"automobile-new-products-a-test-grope-of-the-car-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12650","title":{"rendered":"Automobile New Products &#8211; A test grope of the car of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When I went to check out Gordon Murray&#8217;s future car \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the ultra-small, environmentally conscious T25 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d there would be no test drive. Instead, I was allowed what you might call a test grope.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The prototype sits hidden under a black cloth in a secure room at Murray&#8217;s design headquarters in Surrey, England.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The only people allowed to see it &#8220;undressed&#8221; are serious investors interested in getting the T25 into production.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I asked Murray, the Formula One design supremo renowned for his McLaren F1, would he mind if I touched it, through the cloth. Amused, he watched as I groped my way around it&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/world\/story\/2009\/05\/19\/f-rfa-durham.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to check out Gordon Murray&#8217;s future car \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the ultra-small, environmentally conscious T25 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d there would be no test drive. Instead, I was allowed what you might call a test grope. The prototype sits hidden under a black cloth in a secure room at Murray&#8217;s design headquarters in Surrey, England. The only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-new-automobile-products-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12737,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650\/revisions\/12737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}