{"id":309,"date":"2007-08-23T21:26:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T19:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eugene.dullaard.nl\/?p=309"},"modified":"2013-08-19T07:11:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T05:11:56","slug":"future-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eugene.dullaard.nl\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Future Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as the current one does not live forever I did some thinking on what I might choose as a future car. Due to reliability and personal experience I have a preference for Japanese cars. Had some issues with a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volkswagen\">Volkswagen<\/a> which I owned a long time ago, on the other hand the one <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honda\">Honda<\/a> which I owned wasn&#8217;t trouble free either. Which was kind of a surprise to me as it is not really known for having problems. The other cars didn&#8217;t give many issues and the only one that gave an issue was due to an error by a mechanic. Most others have been <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mazda\">Mazda<\/a> (with the exception of one <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toyota\">Toyota<\/a>) as well and none of them ever let me down, so I&#8217;ll think I will stick to the brand. As I usually buy second hand (2-4 year old), my future car is already on the road and there are only two which I will consider\u00a0at this time. As family expansion also comes into view in these cars lifetime and the amount of kilometers might go down a lot in the near future as well, feul economy is not really a factor. No I am not looking for a car that will run 1:4 nor does Mazda make any. The two lucky ones are the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mazda_6\">Mazda 6<\/a> in either a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Mazda6-Wagon.jpg\">Sportsbreak<\/a> package or the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:MazdaSpeed_6.jpg\">MPS<\/a> if I can get my hands on one, but preferably the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rx8\">RX-8<\/a>. The latter might be considered risky by some over my choice of reliability, but I love the technology behind it. Although it&#8217;s a car that my brother cannot maintain as his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wankel_engine\">wankel rotary engine<\/a> skills are next to non-existing. The 6 still has a conventional <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otto_engine\">otto or four stroke engine<\/a> so that won&#8217;t be a problem, now I still have to figure out which of the two it might become in the next year or so. Phew, some choice&#8230;&#8230;.. Also, will I keep the MX-5 for fun or should I trade it in. I&#8217;m a fan of topless driving, however it&#8217;s not my girlfriends favourite thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as the current one does not live forever I did some thinking on what I might choose as a future car. Due to reliability and personal experience I have a preference for Japanese cars. Had some issues with a Volkswagen which I owned a long time ago, on the other hand the one Honda &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eugene.dullaard.nl\/?p=309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Future Cars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugene.dullaard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugene.dullaard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugene.dullaard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugene.dullaard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugene.dullaard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eugene.dullaard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/eugene.dullaard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugene.dullaard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugene.dullaard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugene.dullaard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}