{"id":13461,"date":"2009-06-01T12:27:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T19:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13461"},"modified":"2009-06-02T15:44:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T22:44:22","slug":"automobile-rally-car-800-hp-ford-fiesta-to-take-on-pikes-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13461","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Rally Car &#8211; 800 HP Ford Fiesta to Take on Pikes Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In an attempt to drum-up interest in the launch of the Fiesta in North America, Ford is putting on a serious publicity stunt by running two 800 horsepower versions of the economy car in the legendary Pikes Peak race.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ford is eager to appeal not just to econonomically-minded individuals with the Fiesta sub-compact, but also to enthusiasts as it attempts to set a Pike Peak record with a sub-10 minute run up the mountain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To do this not only will Olsbergs Motor Sport Evolution race team owner\u00c2\u00a0Andreas Eriksson\u00c2\u00a0be piloting one of the turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder Fiesta racers, but so will rally legend\u00c2\u00a0Marcus Gr\u00c3\u00b6nholm. In World Rally Championship competition\u00c2\u00a0Gr\u00c3\u00b6nholm has won 30 races and clinched the championship twice.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Both Eriksson and\u00c2\u00a0Gr\u00c3\u00b6nholm\u00c2\u00a0will certainly need all 800 horses when they take on the 12.4-mile, 156-turn dirt and tarmac climb on July 19th.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re pleased to have a top independent team like Olsbergs MSE coming to the U.S. with their Fiesta Rallycross cars to take on the challenge of Pike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Peak&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoguide.com\/auto-news\/2009\/05\/800-horsepower-ford-fiesta-to-take-on-pikes-peak.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/accounts\/default1\/banners\/dirtbagwr-468x60.jpg\" alt=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" title=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/scripts\/imp.php?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to drum-up interest in the launch of the Fiesta in North America, Ford is putting on a serious publicity stunt by running two 800 horsepower versions of the economy car in the legendary Pikes Peak race. Ford is eager to appeal not just to econonomically-minded individuals with the Fiesta sub-compact, but also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461","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=13461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13463,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461\/revisions\/13463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}