{"id":75132,"date":"2013-02-05T20:48:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T03:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=75132"},"modified":"2013-02-05T20:48:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T03:48:48","slug":"why-do-european-cars-get-better-mpg-than-us-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=75132","title":{"rendered":"Why Do European Cars Get Better MPG Than US Cars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The European market has many more small, fuel-efficient car models than we get in America, but even European versions of international cars like the Jetta are rated at higher MPG numbers. We can explain why.<!-- %JUMP:More &raquo;% --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This question came up when Consumer Reports slammed Ford&#8217;s Ecoboost motors and downsized turbo engines in general. Reader Batman wondered if EPA testing is at fault, and if they are responsible for the MPG disparity across the Atlantic\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5981938\/why-do-european-cars-get-better-mpg-than-us-cars\" 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>The European market has many more small, fuel-efficient car models than we get in America, but even European versions of international cars like the Jetta are rated at higher MPG numbers. We can explain why. This question came up when Consumer Reports slammed Ford&#8217;s Ecoboost motors and downsized turbo engines in general. Reader Batman wondered [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75132","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=75132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75134,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75132\/revisions\/75134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}