{"id":5773,"date":"2014-09-01T19:45:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T19:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2014-12-31T19:13:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T19:13:17","slug":"ducati-meets-vw-car-11000-rpm-the-octane-lounge-sept-1-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/ducati-meets-vw-car-11000-rpm-the-octane-lounge-sept-1-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducati Motorcycle + VW Car = 11,000 rpm <br\/>The Octane Lounge<\/br>Sept 1, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/OCTANE_LOUNGE_XL_SPORT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/OCTANE_LOUNGE_XL_SPORT-120x300.jpg\" alt=\"VW11\" width=\"120\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5774\" \/><\/a>Overview<\/h2>\n<div>\nDon&#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.<br \/>\nIf 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>And at the recent Paris Auto Show, Volkswagen rolled out what could be a true game changer on that front: its new XL Sport concept car. In a nutshell, the XL Sport weighs a featherweight 1,962 pounds and is powered by a two-cylinder, 197-horsepower Ducati Superleggera V-Twin motorcycle engine that propels it to 100 km-h (62 mph) in 5.7 seconds, with a top speed of 168 mph. The engine connects to a seven-speed &#8220;DSG&#8221; paddle-shift automated manual transmission.<\/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>And at the recent Paris Auto Show, Volkswagen rolled out what could be a true game changer on that front: its new XL Sport concept car.  In a nutshell, the XL Sport weighs a featherweight 1,962 pounds and is powered by a two-cylinder, 197-horsepower Ducati Superleggera V-Twin motorcycle engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5773","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\/5773","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=5773"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7072,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions\/7072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}