{"id":315286,"date":"2010-02-12T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/12\/autoblog-weekender-full-of-questions-edition\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T03:00:00","slug":"autoblog-weekender-full-of-questions-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/315286","title":{"rendered":"Autoblog Weekender: Full-of-Questions Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/geneva-motor-show\/\" rel=\"tag\">Geneva Motor Show<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/china\/\" rel=\"tag\">China<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/videos\/\" rel=\"tag\">Videos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/hummer\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hummer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/mercedes-benz\/\" rel=\"tag\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/nissan\/\" rel=\"tag\">Nissan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/porsche\/\" rel=\"tag\">Porsche<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/smart\/\" rel=\"tag\">Smart<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/citroen\/\" rel=\"tag\">Citro\u00ebn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/australia\/\" rel=\"tag\">Australia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/middle-east\/\" rel=\"tag\">Middle East<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/12\/autoblog-weekender-full-of-questions-edition-heard-the-one-abou\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/02\/wkr2-12-10.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>The Autoblog Weekender &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/12\/autoblog-weekender-full-of-questions-edition-heard-the-one-abou\/\">Click above<\/a> to check out what you missed<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nThis slightly belated Weekender is extra full of the week&#8217;s car news, starting off with a union of cars and alcohol that only Aussies would think of putting together. In the opposite hemisphere but the same corner, reporters with China&#8217;s Caixing news site take an uncharacteristically critical look at BYD and find suspect claims and institutionalized corporate cloning that has made its CEO and Warren Buffet even richer. Back on this side, Smart hasn&#8217;t lost its relevance, just its place in people&#8217;s minds, so it&#8217;s using hot dogs to try and get its mojo back while Citro&euml;n uses John Lennon and Marilyn Monroe. And when is a model car not a model car, when does an AMG float, and where in the world do you use an H2 to tow a snowplow out of the snow? The answers are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/12\/autoblog-weekender-full-of-questions-edition-heard-the-one-abou\/\">right after the jump<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/12\/autoblog-weekender-full-of-questions-edition\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Autoblog Weekender: Full-of-Questions Edition<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/12\/autoblog-weekender-full-of-questions-edition\/\">Autoblog Weekender: Full-of-Questions Edition<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/12\/autoblog-weekender-full-of-questions-edition\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/forward\/19356862\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/12\/autoblog-weekender-full-of-questions-edition\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Geneva Motor Show, China, Videos, Hummer, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Porsche, Smart, Citro\u00ebn, Australia, Middle East The Autoblog Weekender &#8211; Click above to check out what you missed This slightly belated Weekender is extra full of the week&#8217;s car news, starting off with a union of cars and alcohol that only Aussies would think of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315286","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=315286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}