{"id":91511,"date":"2014-03-09T14:50:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T21:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=91511"},"modified":"2014-03-09T14:50:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T21:50:52","slug":"the-battle-for-the-worlds-sportiest-front-wheel-drive-pocket-rocket-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=91511","title":{"rendered":"The battle for the world&#8217;s sportiest front-wheel-drive pocket-rocket heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you were compiling a list of the world\u2019s sportiest front wheel drive cars, you\u2019d no doubt start with names like the MINI Cooper S, Volkswagen Golf GTI or Scirocco R, Ford Focus RS500 or Taurus SHO, Honda Integra Type R, Vauxhall\/Opel Vectra or Astra VXR models, Peugeot 205 GTi, Alfa Romeo 147 or 156 GTA models, Nissan Altima Coupe, Mazda speed3, one of the Renaultsport Meganes, or if you\u2019re a little older perhaps the Lotus Elan, Lancia Fulvia, Fiat Abarth or Volvo S80 T6. Now there\u2019s a new name to put at the very top of that list and several new contenders gunning for the crown\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/the-battle-for-the-worlds-fastest-front-wheel-drive-car-hots-up\/31136\/\" 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>If you were compiling a list of the world\u2019s sportiest front wheel drive cars, you\u2019d no doubt start with names like the MINI Cooper S, Volkswagen Golf GTI or Scirocco R, Ford Focus RS500 or Taurus SHO, Honda Integra Type R, Vauxhall\/Opel Vectra or Astra VXR models, Peugeot 205 GTi, Alfa Romeo 147 or 156 [&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-91511","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\/91511","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=91511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91512,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91511\/revisions\/91512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}