{"id":3751,"date":"2013-11-18T20:15:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T20:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2013-11-28T20:17:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T20:17:21","slug":"214-mpg-the-octane-lounge-nov-18-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/214-mpg-the-octane-lounge-nov-18-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"214 mpg &#8211; The Octane Lounge &#8211; Nov 18, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/OCTANE_LOUNGE_TWIN_UP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3752\" alt=\"OCTANE_LOUNGE_TWIN_UP.qxd\" src=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/OCTANE_LOUNGE_TWIN_UP-121x300.jpg\" width=\"121\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/OCTANE_LOUNGE_TWIN_UP-121x300.jpg 121w, https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/OCTANE_LOUNGE_TWIN_UP-413x1024.jpg 413w, https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/OCTANE_LOUNGE_TWIN_UP.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\" \/><\/a>Overview<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>Don&#8217;t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media&#8217;s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they&#8217;re produced. Click <a href=\"..\/..\/media\/?page_id=67\">here<\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiftweekly.com\/\">www.shiftweekly.com<\/a> to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.<\/p>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the ubiquitous Volkswagen Beetle had two primary claims to fame: it was frugal and it was slow.<br \/>\nBut there were some upsides. Cheap to buy, cheap and easy to work on, and parsimonious with a gallon of fuel, the Beetle was about as thrifty a car as there was in its day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">Please contact us to order this feature.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the ubiquitous Volkswagen Beetle had two primary claims to fame: it was frugal and it was slow.<br \/>\nBut there were some upsides. Cheap to buy, cheap and easy to work on, and parsimonious with a gallon of fuel, the Beetle was about as thrifty a car as there was in its day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-store-items","category-the-octane-lounge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3753,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions\/3753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}