{"id":372,"date":"2004-10-25T06:59:47","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T12:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=372"},"modified":"2004-10-25T06:59:47","modified_gmt":"2004-10-25T12:59:47","slug":"hot-car-cool-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2004\/10\/25\/hot-car-cool-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Car, Cool Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new trend in cars?<\/p>\n<p>Smaller than a Mini-Cooper and more fuel efficient, too, the Smart line from Mercedes may be the next wave in car technology.  According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/12.10\/microcar.html?pg=1&#038;topic=microcar&#038;topic_set=\">this article on Wired News<\/a>, the Fortwo is a new breed of car that is not only high-tech, but &#8220;cool&#8221;, too.  Made from primarily recycled plastics and designed to be super fuel-efficient, boasting up to 70 miles per gallon.  The car itself is tiny.  In fact, it is almost literally half the size of a Hummer and two Fortwo&#8217;s can park in a regular parking spot quite comfortably.  You can squeeze in three, if you park sideways.  Is it the car of the future?  Possibly.  Of course, we won&#8217;t know in the US until sometime in 2006, which is when they plan on breaking in over here.  Hmm, can I wait that long?  Well, in the mean-time, go take a look at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/12.10\/microcar.html?pg=1&#038;topic=microcar&#038;topic_set=\">this what Wired News has to say about the Smart Fortwo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new trend in cars? Smaller than a Mini-Cooper and more fuel efficient, too, the Smart line from Mercedes may be the next wave in car technology. According to this article on Wired News, the Fortwo is a new breed of car that is not only high-tech, but &#8220;cool&#8221;, too. Made from primarily recycled plastics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19,27,14,28,30],"tags":[520,522,521],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crass-commerce","category-criticism-marginalia-and-notes","category-fun","category-news-and-current-events","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction","tag-car-technology","tag-fortwos-can-park","tag-recycled-plastics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}