{"id":4661,"date":"2014-03-31T18:46:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T18:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/?p=4661"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:47:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T18:47:02","slug":"acura-rl-2005-12-march-31-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/acura-rl-2005-12-march-31-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Acura RL: 2005-&#8217;12 &#8211; March 31, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AutoFile_ACURA_RL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4662\" alt=\"AutoFile_ACURA_RL\" src=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AutoFile_ACURA_RL-97x300.jpg\" width=\"97\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AutoFile_ACURA_RL-97x300.jpg 97w, https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AutoFile_ACURA_RL.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 97px) 100vw, 97px\" \/><\/a>Overview<strong><\/strong><\/h2>\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<div>\n<div>\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<\/div>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>Acura&#8217;s flagship sedan began as the 3.5 RL, which replaced the Legend for the 1997 model year. The 3.5 designation was dropped when the second-generation RL was launched for 2005. That model came with standard all-wheel-drive along with a 290-horsepower V6 and a five-speed automatic transmission. The RL received a minor makeover for 2009 plus a new 300-horsepower 3.7-liter V6. A six-speed automatic transmission replaced the previous five-speed unit for 2012, one year before the RLX replacement arrived in early 2013 as a 2014 model.<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">Please contact us to order this feature.<\/a><code><\/code><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acura&#8217;s flagship sedan began as the 3.5 RL, which replaced the Legend for the 1997 model year. The 3.5 designation was dropped when the second-generation RL was launched for 2005. That model came with standard all-wheel-drive along with a 290-horsepower V6 and a five-speed automatic transmission. The RL received a minor makeover for 2009 plus a new 300-horsepower 3.7-liter V6. A six-speed automatic transmission replaced the previous five-speed unit for 2012, one year before the RLX replacement arrived in early 2013 as a 2014 model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autofile","category-store-items"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661","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=4661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4663,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions\/4663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}