{"id":19927,"date":"2009-09-01T14:39:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T21:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19927"},"modified":"2009-09-02T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T19:16:16","slug":"automobile-misc-sports-car-alfa-romeo-becomes-dodge-controversy-outrages-fans-of-classic-italian-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19927","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Misc. Sports Car &#8211; Alfa Romeo becomes Dodge? Controversy outrages fans of classic Italian car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It sounds too bizaare to be true but Alfa Romeos are about to become Dodges, igniting a controversy that&#8217;s outraged car fans worldwide. The car above is Alfa Romeo&#8217;s MiTo. It was named for the two cities associated with Alfa Romeo: Milan and Torino. Now that it will be a Dodge (from Detroit), will it be renamed the Dodge DeMiTo?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fiat chairman Marchionne told Autocar\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Dodge is the American muscle car, while Alfa Romeo is the European muscle car. How we dovetail these two brands is very important. The level of competition between these two brands is tremendous because they are both going after the same customer.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He continued. So he&#8217;s implying not only that\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-6882-Classic-Autos-Examiner~y2009m8d31-Alfa-Romeo-becomes-Dodge--Controversy-outrages-sports-car-fans-worldwide\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds too bizaare to be true but Alfa Romeos are about to become Dodges, igniting a controversy that&#8217;s outraged car fans worldwide. The car above is Alfa Romeo&#8217;s MiTo. It was named for the two cities associated with Alfa Romeo: Milan and Torino. Now that it will be a Dodge (from Detroit), will it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19927","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=19927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19987,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19927\/revisions\/19987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}