{"id":592,"date":"2004-10-06T00:20:21","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T00:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2004-10-06T00:20:21","modified_gmt":"2004-10-06T00:20:21","slug":"recent_rental_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Recent Rental Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve rented a variety of cars recently.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carmagazine.co.uk\/\">Car magazine<\/a> does a nice job of rating autos using their &#8220;Good, Bad &#038; Ugly&#8221; approach.  Here goes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Good\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbb.com\/kb\/ki.dll\/kw.kc.nyz?kbb;;&#038;;sed&#038;&Mazda;6\">Mazda6<\/a>.  Excellent handling, mileage, four cylinder engine overworked, turning radius not great (reminds me of the soon to be retired Taurus&#8217;s poor turning)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbb.com\/kb\/ki.dll\/kw.kc.nyz?kbb;;&#038;;sed&#038;&Toyota;Camry\">Toyota Camry<\/a> Machine like, excellent quality, could use some style.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbb.com\/kb\/ki.dll\/kw.kc.nyz?kbb;;&#038;;sed&#038;&Nissan;Altima\">Nissan Altima<\/a> Points for some style, decent handling, V-6 reasonably fun<\/p>\n<li>The Bad:\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbb.com\/kb\/ki.dll\/kw.kc.nyz?kbb;;&#038;;sed&#038;&Toyota;Avalon\">2004 Toyota Avalon<\/a> Terrible handling&#8230; difficult to read dashboard <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordvehicles.com\/cars\/mustang\/index.asp\">2004 Ford Mustang<\/a>.   I assume the 2005 will be much, much better<\/p>\n<li>The ugly\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbb.com\/kb\/ki.dll\/kw.kc.nyz?kbb;;&#038;;suv&#038;&Ford;Expedition\">Ford Expedition<\/a>  Hard to see the point, very big, poor mileage, essentially a very expensive pickup truck.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve rented a variety of cars recently. Car magazine does a nice job of rating autos using their &#8220;Good, Bad &#038; Ugly&#8221; approach. Here goes: The Good Mazda6. Excellent handling, mileage, four cylinder engine overworked, turning radius not great (reminds me of the soon to be retired Taurus&#8217;s poor turning) Toyota Camry Machine like, excellent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}