{"id":127,"date":"2005-02-15T09:03:55","date_gmt":"2005-02-15T16:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2005-02-15T09:03:55","modified_gmt":"2005-02-15T16:03:55","slug":"sticker-shock-and-awe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"(Sticker) Shock and Awe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So at the dealer Friday I&#8217;m sat minding my own business, reading the BMW-oriented magazines (golf and resort living) when I catch a piece of a conversation taking place in front of me. What I heard was &#8220;ninety-two thousand&#8221;. Looking up, the male half of the couple says thats more than he wants to pay and could he look at the 3-series instead. Minutes later he&#8217;s sat in the car (a lunking BMW convertible) telling his partner that this is the one he really wants. She says he should have it. Later on I walk over and check. Yes, that car had a sticker price of $92,000. Talk about shock and awe.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, it is reported that Brecht&#8217;s have eliminated their market value markup on the new MINIs on their lot. Although I&#8217;ve kinda decided to stick with my baby I might go take a look see, if they had exactly what I want I could be swayed&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons for staying with Sarah is I think she looks about as good as a MINI can get, the chili red, the stripes with JCW signature, the flag roof. There&#8217;s seldom a day where someone doesn&#8217;t compliment me on it. The convertible MCS wouldn&#8217;t ever look that good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So at the dealer Friday I&#8217;m sat minding my own business, reading the BMW-oriented magazines (golf and resort living) when I catch a piece of a conversation taking place in front of me. What I heard was &#8220;ninety-two thousand&#8221;. Looking up, the male half of the couple says thats more than he wants to pay &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=127\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Sticker) Shock and Awe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}