{"id":60606,"date":"2012-02-16T21:17:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T04:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=60606"},"modified":"2012-02-16T21:17:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T04:17:06","slug":"amg-volkswagen-eyeing-possible-billion-dollar-purchase-of-ducati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=60606","title":{"rendered":"AMG, Volkswagen Eyeing Possible Billion Dollar Purchase of Ducati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It seems as though Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AMG performance division have money to spend. The two companies have reportedly shown interest in shelling out as much as $1.32 billion to put their names on a famed two-wheeled Italian speed machine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The owner of Italian motorbike company Ducati has put the brand up for sale for a cool 1 billion euros, ($1.32 billion U.S. dollars), and although the asking price is\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/wot.motortrend.com\/amg-volkswagen-eyeing-possible-billion-dollar-purchase-of-ducati-170633.html\" target=\"_blank\">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>It seems as though Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AMG performance division have money to spend. The two companies have reportedly shown interest in shelling out as much as $1.32 billion to put their names on a famed two-wheeled Italian speed machine. The owner of Italian motorbike company Ducati has put the brand up for sale for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-motorcycle","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60606","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=60606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60607,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60606\/revisions\/60607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}