{"id":120757,"date":"2009-12-31T15:43:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=47903"},"modified":"2009-12-31T15:43:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:43:16","slug":"the-best-cars-we-drove-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/120757","title":{"rendered":"The Best Cars We Drove in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47904 aligncenter\" title=\"2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2010_chevrolet_camaro_ss_main_review.jpg\" alt=\"2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS\" width=\"563\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As 2009 winds down and 2010 rears its head around the corner, we thought it appropriate to reminisce about our favorite drives of &#8216;09.  Of course it only makes sense to compare apples to apples, so we picked our favorite test-car in each of seven categories.  The consensus of our staff is below &#8211; click through to read the original review for each and see how the specs measure up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sedan<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2009\/10\/05\/review-2010-ford-taurus-sho-its-show-time\/\">2010 Ford Taurus SHO<\/a><br \/>\n<strong> Crossover<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2009\/09\/02\/reviewed-2010-chevrolet-equinox-1lt-shows-what-gm-is-capable-of\/\">2010 Chevrolet Equinox<\/a><br \/>\n<strong> Sports Car (Coupe)<\/strong>:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2009\/08\/05\/reviewed-2010-chevrolet-camaro-ss-its-more-than-just-bumblebee-from-transformers\/\"> 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS<\/a><br \/>\n<strong> Hatchback<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2009\/12\/15\/review-2010-volkswagen-gti-unleashes-the-demon-inside-you\/\">2010 Volkswagen GTI<\/a><br \/>\n<strong> Compact Car<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2009\/09\/29\/review-2010-mazda3-its-smiling-at-you-and-you-should-smile-back\/\">2010 Mazda3<\/a><br \/>\n<strong> Hybrid<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2009\/10\/16\/review-2010-ford-fusion-hybrid-look-here-for-impressive-fuel-effciency-numbers\/\">2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid<\/a><br \/>\n<strong> Convertible<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2009\/11\/16\/review-2009-infiniti-g37-s-convertible-drop-the-top-and-enjoy-the-sound\/\">2009 Infiniti G37 S Convertible<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Stephen Calogera<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jeGZgbUX8dzKuhAun0TBy4PaLzI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jeGZgbUX8dzKuhAun0TBy4PaLzI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jeGZgbUX8dzKuhAun0TBy4PaLzI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jeGZgbUX8dzKuhAun0TBy4PaLzI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=VZ_ne57aToM:cjI8mOk7VEU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=VZ_ne57aToM:cjI8mOk7VEU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=VZ_ne57aToM:cjI8mOk7VEU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=VZ_ne57aToM:cjI8mOk7VEU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=VZ_ne57aToM:cjI8mOk7VEU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=VZ_ne57aToM:cjI8mOk7VEU:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=VZ_ne57aToM:cjI8mOk7VEU:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2009 winds down and 2010 rears its head around the corner, we thought it appropriate to reminisce about our favorite drives of &#8216;09. Of course it only makes sense to compare apples to apples, so we picked our favorite test-car in each of seven categories. The consensus of our staff is below &#8211; click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}