{"id":53537,"date":"2011-08-22T13:25:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53537"},"modified":"2011-08-22T13:25:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T20:25:30","slug":"rally-car-minis-big-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53537","title":{"rendered":"Rally Car &#8211; Mini&#8217;s Big Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Cherished the world over, everybody knows about the Mini. Whether that&#8217;s because it was the transport of choice for four Liverpool boys, collectively known as The Beatles or because it reigned supreme in three of its four Monte Carlo Rallies, who knows? But now there&#8217;s a new Mini to love \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the World Rally Championship has fallen for it already.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mini for WRC\u00e2\u20ac\u009d story broke two summers ago, it seemed impossible. There wasn&#8217;t a Cooper big enough to fit the regulations. Then came the Countryman, a monster of a Mini with four doors and as many driven wheels. Suddenly it all made sense. Mini is a range, not just one revolutionary, pocket-sized car; and it&#8217;s also a global range\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/racer-special-minis-big-idea\/article\/210107\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/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>Cherished the world over, everybody knows about the Mini. Whether that&#8217;s because it was the transport of choice for four Liverpool boys, collectively known as The Beatles or because it reigned supreme in three of its four Monte Carlo Rallies, who knows? But now there&#8217;s a new Mini to love \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the World Rally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53537","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=53537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53538,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53537\/revisions\/53538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}