{"id":125,"date":"2005-12-06T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=125"},"modified":"2005-12-06T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T08:34:00","slug":"car-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Car Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Car%20Stuff\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1890\/741\/1600\/subaru.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1890\/741\/320\/subaru.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1890\/741\/1600\/gm.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1890\/741\/320\/gm.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t done a car post in a while. They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/Autos\/story?id=1336263&amp;CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312\">closing plants and laying off workers<\/a>. They sold part of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/markets\/natworden\/10236421.html\">financing unit<\/a>. The GM fire sale continues. I find this interesting, as the initial attraction for GM was Subies&#8217; advanced, light weight AWD systems. I wonder if this means GM will be selling Saab also, since they have been using the WRX as the base of one of their models???<\/p>\n<p>PS. For anyone who is curious about just how the U.S. auto industry got where is , you should read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0385507690\/qid=1133890126\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/102-5014541-3256961?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155\">this book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PPS. The Japanese are keeping a close eye on this <a href=\"http:\/\/worldwide.hyundai-motor.com\/\">over seas rival<\/a>, whose product and quality have become quite competitive in the last few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Car%20Stuff\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Haven&#8217;t done a car post in a while. They&#8217;re closing plants and laying off workers. They sold part of their financing unit. The GM fire sale continues. I find this interesting, as the initial attraction for GM was Subies&#8217; advanced, light weight AWD systems. I wonder if this means GM will be selling Saab also, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}