{"id":240,"date":"2009-06-11T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T18:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2009-06-11T11:17:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T18:17:37","slug":"the-power-of-turbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"The power of Turbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday when I was driving home from work I floored the gas pedal of my BMW coming out of a 25mph turn. I was surprised by the sluggish acceleration of the heavy 7 series, which is usually quite agile, thanks to it&#8217;s large V8. But yesterday, the car just didn&#8217;t feel like it was agile. Then it dawned on me: outside it was 38C and the A\/C was working overtime. Both effects took significant power away &#8211; enough so I could feel it. That reminded me that I definitely want my next car to be turbo or supercharged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday when I was driving home from work I floored the gas pedal of my BMW coming out of a 25mph turn. I was surprised by the sluggish acceleration of the heavy 7 series, which is usually quite agile, thanks to it&#8217;s large V8. But yesterday, the car just didn&#8217;t feel like it was agile. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=240\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The power of Turbo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}