{"id":2785,"date":"2009-03-06T21:58:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T05:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2009-03-17T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T23:53:08","slug":"automobile-racecars-fresh-off-the-assembly-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2785","title":{"rendered":"Automobile – Racecars Fresh off the Assembly Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DETROIT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S automakers have long defended their racing expenditures with a simple axiom: Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday.<\/p>\n

But in at least one form of competition, this often-costly formula may be turning upside down, with automakers producing and selling limited editions intended solely for track use; the cars cannot be registered for road use. Essentially, they are moving the cars raced on Sundays from the expense side of the ledger to the income side.<\/p>\n

The low production volume will not turn Detroit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fortunes around. Still, when Ford built a run of 50 2008 Cobra Jet Mustangs specifically for drag racing, the program was successful on at least two levels. Not only did the cars sell out quickly at $69,900 each \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Ford emphasized that it made a profit on each \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but one went on to win its first race, taking Stock Eliminator honors at the National Hot Rod Association Winternationals here last month.<\/p>\n

Dodge, another veteran of the \u00e2\u20ac\u212260s horsepower wars, is also in the game with its Drag Pak program from Mopar…\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n

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DETROIT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S automakers have long defended their racing expenditures with a simple axiom: Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday. But in at least one form of competition, this often-costly formula may be turning upside down, with automakers producing and selling limited editions intended solely for track use; the cars cannot be registered for road use. Essentially, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","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=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2789,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}