{"id":86138,"date":"2013-11-02T07:46:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T14:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=86138"},"modified":"2013-11-02T07:46:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T14:46:45","slug":"the-big-test-20132014-hybrid-and-diesel-sedans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=86138","title":{"rendered":"The Big Test: 2013\/2014 Hybrid and Diesel Sedans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Chevrolet Cruze 2.0TD vs.Honda Civic Hybrid vs. Toyota Prius vs. Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid vs.Volkswagen Jetta TDI<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do you obsess over how much energy your car&#8217;s engine creates, and worry about the fuel being destroyed for your driving pleasure? (Why are you reading this magazine?) Actually, one of this universe&#8217;s immutable laws is that energy can never be created or destroyed. But it can change forms. Most cars lug around a tankful of potential energy disguised as gasoline (or diesel, E85, propane, etc.). Fed into a typical engine, the fuel is converted to a lot of waste heat and vibration energies, during what&#8217;s conceded in the auto biz as a hopelessly energy-inefficient but necessary-evil process. Oh, and the process produces some usable mechanical energy, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The gas engine is the people&#8217;s choice in the U.S., but it only goes so far\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motortrend.com\/roadtests\/alternative\/1312_the_big_test_2013_2014_hybrid_and_diesel_sedan_comparison\/viewall.html#ixzz2jFYrjb1F\" 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>Chevrolet Cruze 2.0TD vs.Honda Civic Hybrid vs. Toyota Prius vs. Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid vs.Volkswagen Jetta TDI Do you obsess over how much energy your car&#8217;s engine creates, and worry about the fuel being destroyed for your driving pleasure? (Why are you reading this magazine?) Actually, one of this universe&#8217;s immutable laws is that energy can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-new-automobile-products-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86138","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=86138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86139,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86138\/revisions\/86139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}