{"id":31004,"date":"2010-04-22T20:13:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T03:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=31004"},"modified":"2010-04-22T20:13:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T03:13:57","slug":"coming-to-america-in-the-porsche-959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=31004","title":{"rendered":"Coming to America in the Porsche 959"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-31005\" title=\"959\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/04\/959-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"959\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/959-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/959-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/959.jpg 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Porsche 959 was never meant to come to America. In fact, it wasn&#8217;t even meant to be a car, really.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Built to showcase Porsche&#8217;s stature as a world leader in automotive technology, the Porsche 959 utilized every ounce of brilliance within Porsche R&amp;D when it appeared as the &#8220;Gruppe B&#8221; at the 1983 Frankfurt Auto Show. It left behind the traditional engineering of the Porsche 911 (which still showed evidence of the Volkswagen Beetle) and embraced the future: a turbocharged, liquid-cooled flat-6, six-speed transmission, all-wheel drive, double-wishbone suspension and even run-flat tires\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insideline.com\/porsche\/959\/coming-to-america-in-the-porsche-959.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Porsche 959 was never meant to come to America. In fact, it wasn&#8217;t even meant to be a car, really. Built to showcase Porsche&#8217;s stature as a world leader in automotive technology, the Porsche 959 utilized every ounce of brilliance within Porsche R&amp;D when it appeared as the &#8220;Gruppe B&#8221; at the 1983 Frankfurt [&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-31004","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\/31004","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=31004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31008,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31004\/revisions\/31008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}