{"id":19797,"date":"2009-08-29T18:44:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T01:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19797"},"modified":"2011-03-20T20:25:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T03:25:18","slug":"automobile-sports-car-road-test-2010-audi-r8-52-fsi-v10-car-review-class-in-its-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19797","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car &#8211; Road Test: 2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI V10 car review; class in its class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mercedes-Benz doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have one. Neither does BMW. Nor Volvo or Saab or any of the Brits save Lotus, and not\u00e2\u20ac\u201dat least since the short tenure of the Ford GT\u00e2\u20ac\u201dany of what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s left of the Big Three. Exclude the Italians specializing in exotics and Porsche, hardly a volume manufacturer, and the only luxury relatively-mass market carbuilder making a mid-engine automobile today is Audi. That car is the Audi R8.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Indeed the Audi R8 places its engine behind the passenger compartment and in front of the rear wheels&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-572-Auto-Review-Examiner~y2009m8d29-Road-Test-Audi-R8-52-FSI-V10\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have one. Neither does BMW. Nor Volvo or Saab or any of the Brits save Lotus, and not\u00e2\u20ac\u201dat least since the short tenure of the Ford GT\u00e2\u20ac\u201dany of what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s left of the Big Three. Exclude the Italians specializing in exotics and Porsche, hardly a volume manufacturer, and the only luxury relatively-mass market carbuilder [&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-19797","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\/19797","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=19797"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46679,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19797\/revisions\/46679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}