{"id":67376,"date":"2012-07-29T12:40:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T19:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=67376"},"modified":"2012-07-29T12:40:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T19:40:55","slug":"off-road-racing-volkswagen-baja-race-paris-to-ensenada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=67376","title":{"rendered":"Off-road Racing &#8211; Volkswagen Baja Race: Paris to Ensenada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While VW doesn&#8217;t want you to forget the Beetle, it definitely wants you to associate the large round VW logo with Teutonic high-tech and diesel power. Last June, this quest brought VW and its Dakar-spec Touareg 2 to Mexico to bump and grind on the same track with the Trophy Trucks in the Baja 500.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">VW&#8217;s Race Touareg 2s would not officially go head-to-head with SCORE&#8217;s highly specialized desert Funny Cars. Instead, the off-road racing sanctioning body created a special class (International Truck), acknowledging that the racing VWs have been optimized for the wide-open North African terrain\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/editorial.autos.msn.com\/article.aspx?cp-documentid=434397\" 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>While VW doesn&#8217;t want you to forget the Beetle, it definitely wants you to associate the large round VW logo with Teutonic high-tech and diesel power. Last June, this quest brought VW and its Dakar-spec Touareg 2 to Mexico to bump and grind on the same track with the Trophy Trucks in the Baja 500. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-off-road-auto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67376","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=67376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67377,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67376\/revisions\/67377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}