{"id":8817,"date":"2009-04-12T09:22:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8817"},"modified":"2009-04-12T11:13:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T18:13:52","slug":"autmombile-drifting-all-show-more-go-sliding-with-rhys-millen-in-the-genesis-coupe-drift-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8817","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Drifting &#8211; All Show, More Go: Sliding With Rhys Millen in the Genesis Coupe Drift Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Earlier this week, Hyundai Motors, one of drifter extraordinare Rhys Millen&#8217;s primary backers in the 2009 Formula DRIFT racing series, invited us out to experience first hand the Genesis coupe-based race car Millen will campaign in this year&#8217;s Formula D. The tire-smoking fun starts this weekend in Long Beach at the site of next week&#8217;s Grand Prix of Long Beach IndyCar season opener.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As we previously highlighted here on MT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s WOT blog, Millen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s RMR Racing team metamorphosed the Hyundai Genesis Coupe into a full-blown drift combatant. Based on the automaker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Art of Speed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d concept shown at last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s SEMA Show, the car is powered by a fully-tuned, 560-hp, turbocharged 4.1L version of Hyundai\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lambda V-6&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/wot.motortrend.com\/6491755\/motorsports\/all-show-more-go-sliding-with-rhys-millen-in-the-genesis-coupe-drift-car\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Hyundai Motors, one of drifter extraordinare Rhys Millen&#8217;s primary backers in the 2009 Formula DRIFT racing series, invited us out to experience first hand the Genesis coupe-based race car Millen will campaign in this year&#8217;s Formula D. The tire-smoking fun starts this weekend in Long Beach at the site of next week&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drifting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817","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=8817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8862,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions\/8862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}