{"id":83563,"date":"2009-12-15T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/15\/autoblog-podcast-157-mike-levine-trucks-along-with-us\/"},"modified":"2009-12-15T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T18:40:00","slug":"autoblog-podcast-157-mike-levine-trucks-along-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/83563","title":{"rendered":"Autoblog Podcast #157 &#8211; Mike Levine trucks along with us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/podcasts\/\" rel=\"tag\">Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/hybrids\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hybrid<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/trucks\/\" rel=\"tag\">Truck<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/etc\/\" rel=\"tag\">Etc.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/bmw\/\" rel=\"tag\">BMW<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/chevrolet\/\" rel=\"tag\">Chevrolet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/chrysler\/\" rel=\"tag\">Chrysler<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/dodge\/\" rel=\"tag\">Dodge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/ford\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ford<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/mercedes-benz\/\" rel=\"tag\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/toyota\/\" rel=\"tag\">Toyota<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/electric\/\" rel=\"tag\">Electric<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/15\/autoblog-podcast-157-mike-levine-trucks-along-with-us\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" height=\"142\" width=\"630\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/autoblog-podcast-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>Click above for the Autoblog Podcast in iTunes, RSS or listen now!<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nOur friend Mike Levine from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickuptrucks.com\/index.html\">Pickuptrucks.com<\/a> joins Chris, Sam and Dan for Episode #157 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/podcasts\/\">The Autoblog Podcast<\/a>, bringing his vast knowledge of all that is crew-cabbed and full framed. Of course, we start off with what we&#8217;re driving and dreamy talk about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/11\/video-2010-dodge-ram-power-wagon-gets-dirty-with-pickuptrucks-c\/\">Dodge Ram Power Wagon<\/a>, but the real meat and potatoes news items begin with a peek at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/14\/detroit-preview-2011-mercedes-benz-e-class-cabriolet\/\">Mercedes-Benz E-Class cabrio<\/a>. Staying with Ms. Jellinek&#8217;s namesake brand, the crew ponders the idea of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/14\/report-mercedes-benz-begins-road-testing-electric-sls-supercar\/\">electric SLS supercar<\/a>. Staying charged, we move right into Toyota&#8217;s recent hybrid news &#8211; a tease of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/14\/detroit-preview-toyota-to-debut-new-hybrid-concept-vehicle\/\">all new hybrid<\/a> that we&#8217;ll see at the 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/detroit-auto-show\/\">Detroit Auto Show<\/a>, and today&#8217;s announcement of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/14\/toyota-officially-launches-plug-in-prius-program-retail-sales-i\/\">PHEV Prius<\/a>. Hybrid pickups come up before we move on to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/12\/embargo-12-12-09-6pm-est-detroit-preview-bmw-to-unveil-faster\/\">BMW&#8217;s Z4 sDrive35is<\/a> and then questions. One hour, thirty minutes, in time for your Tuesday pick-me-up. <\/p>\n<p>For more listening pleasure check out our colleagues at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/category\/podcasts\/\">Joystiq<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.engadget.com\/\">Engadget<\/a>, and let us know what you think of our podcast by dropping us an email at <strong>Podcast at Autoblog dot com<\/strong>, reviewing the show in iTunes, filling out our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/audience\/start-survey.aspx?pubid=JRJrA-gkKy4$&amp;amp;ver=standard\">survey<\/a>, or even leaving us a voicemail on our Google Voice line <strong>734-288-8POD (734-288-8763)<\/strong>. Thanks for listening! <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/15\/autoblog-podcast-157-mike-levine-trucks-along-with-us\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Autoblog Podcast #157 &#8211; Mike Levine trucks along with us!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/15\/autoblog-podcast-157-mike-levine-trucks-along-with-us\/\">Autoblog Podcast #157 &#8211; Mike Levine trucks along with us!<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:40:00 EST.  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Our friend Mike Levine from Pickuptrucks.com joins Chris, Sam and Dan for Episode #157 of The Autoblog Podcast, bringing his vast knowledge of all that is crew-cabbed and full [&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-83563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83563","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=83563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}