{"id":17284,"date":"2009-07-24T09:59:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T16:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17284"},"modified":"2009-07-24T09:59:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T16:59:55","slug":"automobile-sports-car-long-term-test-2008-mitsubishi-lancer-evolution-x-mr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17284","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car &#8211; Long-Term Test: 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X MR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to know whether a dual-clutch automated manual transmission is a high-performance gearbox or just a more fuel-efficient automatic. And even after the introduction in the last year of dual-clutch transmissions from BMW, Mitsubishi and Porsche, there&#8217;s still no resolution of the question.&#8221; We have found ourselves asking this question on the long-term blog before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When the continuously variable transmission (CVT) first reached volume production, we questioned its durability. Surely it must be a fad, we thought. Just an example of a fancy automatic geared toward fuel conservation. But the CVT not &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmunds.com\/insideline\/do\/Drives\/LongTerm\/articleId=129981\/pageId=173842?tid=edmunds.il.home.photopanel..2.*\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to know whether a dual-clutch automated manual transmission is a high-performance gearbox or just a more fuel-efficient automatic. And even after the introduction in the last year of dual-clutch transmissions from BMW, Mitsubishi and Porsche, there&#8217;s still no resolution of the question.&#8221; We have found ourselves asking this question on the long-term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-new-automobile-products-tests","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284","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=17284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17286,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284\/revisions\/17286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}