{"id":87710,"date":"2013-12-04T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=87710"},"modified":"2013-12-04T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:21:09","slug":"paul-walker-crash-why-porsche-carrera-gt-is-not-a-car-to-mess-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=87710","title":{"rendered":"Paul Walker crash: Why Porsche Carrera GT is not a car to mess with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Even by the standards of supercars, and nearly a decade after it was first introduced, the Porsche Carrera GT is something remarkable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That much is clear from the moment you climb into it, and find yourself in a cockpit trimmed with carbonfibre, the high-tech material that F1 cars are built from.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The GT&#8217;s chassis and bodywork are made from the same material. Parts of the cabin bear a close resemblance to other modern Porsches &#8212; the instruments and steering wheel are almost the same as those of the 911 and Boxster &#8212; but all similarities end once you fire up the Carrera GT&#8217;s engine\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/12\/04\/opinion\/paul-walker-porsche\/?hpt=hp_c3\" 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>Even by the standards of supercars, and nearly a decade after it was first introduced, the Porsche Carrera GT is something remarkable. That much is clear from the moment you climb into it, and find yourself in a cockpit trimmed with carbonfibre, the high-tech material that F1 cars are built from. The GT&#8217;s chassis and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87710","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=87710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87711,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87710\/revisions\/87711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}