{"id":24979,"date":"2009-12-09T09:59:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T16:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=24979"},"modified":"2009-12-09T12:10:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T19:10:54","slug":"automobile-sports-car-long-term-test-2009-nissan-gt-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=24979","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car &#8211; Long-Term Test: 2009 Nissan GT-R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So Mike Schmidt, vehicle testing manager, is driving along in our Chevy Silverado long-term test truck somewhere in Sonoma, California. It&#8217;s February 14, 2007. He turns away from the rolling hills and vineyards, tilts down his wire-rim sunglasses, and says, &#8220;Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day.&#8221; His passenger, a photographer, laughs and rolls down the window to spit out some sunflower seeds, his main food source these past few days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just a couple of spies out to shoot secret test sessions of what will become the 2009 Nissan GT-R\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insideline.com\/nissan\/gt-r\/2009\/long-term-test-2009-nissan-gt-r.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=3398&amp;p=12689&amp;pw=15937\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Mike Schmidt, vehicle testing manager, is driving along in our Chevy Silverado long-term test truck somewhere in Sonoma, California. It&#8217;s February 14, 2007. He turns away from the rolling hills and vineyards, tilts down his wire-rim sunglasses, and says, &#8220;Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day.&#8221; His passenger, a photographer, laughs and rolls down the window to spit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24979","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=24979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24981,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24979\/revisions\/24981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}