{"id":1618,"date":"2009-04-26T14:25:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T04:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2009-04-26T14:25:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T04:25:18","slug":"dodge-avenger-furthers-the-stereotypes-of-american-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/26\/dodge-avenger-furthers-the-stereotypes-of-american-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodge Avenger furthers the stereotypes of American cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every time it goes around a corner you are going to die&#8221; would roughly be an accurate statement.<\/p>\n<p>This is the car I&#8217;ve been driving for the past week. Absolutely no feeling in the steering at all (in fact less feeling when cornering).<\/p>\n<p>It also bongs at you seemingly randomly. It especially likes not turning off the headlights when you get out of the car &#8211; even after you&#8217;ve locked it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it has torque&#8230; but only one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Horsepower&#8230; sure, just not sure about plural. Foot to the floor and it kind of sits there wondering what you mean.<\/p>\n<p>All this talk of &#8220;US carmakers failing&#8221; seems to be not a moment too soon.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to have to put a ban on driving American made cars&#8230;. except perhaps the Ford GT&#8230; I wonder if <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">MySQL<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Sun<\/span> Oracle would have a problem with that :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every time it goes around a corner you are going to die&#8221; would roughly be an accurate statement. This is the car I&#8217;ve been driving for the past week. Absolutely no feeling in the steering at all (in fact less &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/26\/dodge-avenger-furthers-the-stereotypes-of-american-cars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumble"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-q6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":576,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/03\/tasmania-day-1-friday-evening\/","url_meta":{"origin":1618,"position":0},"title":"Tasmania Day 1 &#8211; Friday evening","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2006-02-03","format":false,"excerpt":"Working down to the wire, packing at the last minute to head to the airport. 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