{"id":135319,"date":"2017-09-06T06:39:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=135319"},"modified":"2017-09-06T06:39:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:39:24","slug":"why-moms-suv-is-quicker-than-a-million-dollar-le-mans-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=135319","title":{"rendered":"Why Mom&#8217;s SUV Is Quicker Than a Million-Dollar Le Mans Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WHEN IT COMES TO CARS, RACING DEFINED THE 20TH CENTURY.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sport laid out the state of the art, pushed us and the machine beyond what we thought possible.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate this magazine\u2019s 70th anniversary, we chose three pivotal decades in both <em>R&amp;T<\/em> history and motorsport \u2014 the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. We selected three manufacturers that made their bones racing in those eras, companies whose balance sheets are now largely dependent on a vehicle unlike any pure-bred track car: the heavy, thirsty SUV.<\/p>\n<p>We chose a vintage race car from each manufacturer, plus\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadandtrack.com\/car-culture\/a10379935\/why-moms-suv-is-quicker-than-a-million-dollar-le-mans-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHEN IT COMES TO CARS, RACING DEFINED THE 20TH CENTURY. The sport laid out the state of the art, pushed us and the machine beyond what we thought possible. To celebrate this magazine\u2019s 70th anniversary, we chose three pivotal decades in both R&amp;T history and motorsport \u2014 the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. We selected three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-sports-car","category-vintage-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135319","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=135319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135320,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135319\/revisions\/135320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}