{"id":393,"date":"2012-12-03T14:37:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T14:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenvehiclenetwork.com\/blog\/?p=393"},"modified":"2012-12-03T14:37:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T14:37:58","slug":"trend-to-downsizing-car-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/trend-to-downsizing-car-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Trend to Downsizing Car Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers have a habit of packing some unusual things in their  luggage, but when a Ford engineer passed his bag through security  recently, it clearly took the TSA X-ray technician by surprise.  It\u00a0wasn&#8217;t\u00a0a gun, knife or illicit drugs but a big steel block.\u00a0 More  precisely, it was the main piece of a new 1.0-liter engine that Ford  will begin offering on its Fiesta subcompact next year.<\/p>\n<p>With  gasoline prices surging to near-record levels and many experts  forecasting a steady climb over the next few years, consumers are  looking for ways to cut their fuel bills. There\u2019s a clear trend towards  downsizing, with\u00a0compact and subcompact automobiles increasing their  market share substantially.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/car-engines-downsized-without-sacrificing-power-1C7301603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers have a habit of packing some unusual things in their luggage, but when a Ford engineer passed his bag through security recently, it clearly took the TSA X-ray technician by surprise. It\u00a0wasn&#8217;t\u00a0a gun, knife or illicit drugs but a big steel block.\u00a0 More precisely, it was the main piece of a new 1.0-liter engine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_citadela_custom_class":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[517,510],"tags":[],"citadela-post-location":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-green-future","category-green-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-post-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-post-location?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}