{"id":96999,"date":"2014-08-04T20:57:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T03:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=96999"},"modified":"2014-08-04T20:57:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T03:57:12","slug":"2015-indian-scout-first-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=96999","title":{"rendered":"2015 Indian Scout: First Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I was sitting in a conference room in Sturgis, South Dakota last year while Greg Brew, chief designer for Indian, was answering questions from a large group of journalists about the first all-new Indian models developed under\u00a0Polaris Industries ownership of the\u00a0brand. A somewhat cocky journalist challenged Mr. Brew by asking whether he had ever designed any other products nearly as significant as the new Indian Chiefs. Mr. Brew didn\u2019t skip a beat when he immediately responded that, while at BMW, he was asked to design the first Rolls Royce after BMW acquired that brand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I will never forget that exchange for a couple of reasons. First of all, that journalist visibly bowed his head and never asked\u00a0another question\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycledaily.com\/2014\/08\/2015-indian-scout-md-first-ride\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting in a conference room in Sturgis, South Dakota last year while Greg Brew, chief designer for Indian, was answering questions from a large group of journalists about the first all-new Indian models developed under\u00a0Polaris Industries ownership of the\u00a0brand. A somewhat cocky journalist challenged Mr. Brew by asking whether he had ever designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-new-motorcycle-products-tests","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96999","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=96999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97000,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96999\/revisions\/97000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}