{"id":1534,"date":"2003-08-29T08:15:39","date_gmt":"2003-08-29T13:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2003-08-29T08:15:39","modified_gmt":"2003-08-29T13:15:39","slug":"save-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"Save your money."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A co-worker of mine who knows far more about cars than I do sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/cat_content.mv?port_code=autoweek&amp;cat_code=carnews&amp;loc_code=index&amp;content_code=01105263\">a link<\/a> to an Auto Week article about Porche&#8217;s latest SUV offering.  You have to realize that when it comes to car news, I&#8217;m out-of-touch enough that I hadn&#8217;t realized that Porche <b>made<\/b> an SUV.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn addition to the sudden shock of education, there were two lines that really leaped out of the first paragraphs.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;ll be powered by a lightly tuned version of Volkswagen?s 3.2-litre V6 engine?as used in the Golf R32, among other models?at the Frankfurt auto show next month.&#8221;\n<li>&#8220;The current Porsche truck lineup is priced at $55,900 for the S and $88,900 for the Turbo.&#8221;\n<\/ol>\n<p>We did some poking around&#8230;  The VW Golf R32 isn&#8217;t available in the US, but in Australia it&#8217;s selling for the equivalent of roughly $40,400 US dollars.  So for the price of one high-end SUV, you could get a really nice hatchback and deck it out with nearly $50,000 in after-market features.<\/p>\n<p>Or a second hatchback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A co-worker of mine who knows far more about cars than I do sent me a link to an Auto Week article about Porche&#8217;s latest SUV offering. You have to realize that when it comes to car news, I&#8217;m out-of-touch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1534\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}