{"id":683,"date":"2012-06-29T12:07:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T20:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2012-06-29T12:07:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T20:07:01","slug":"why-i-like-the-veloster-turbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Why I Like the Veloster Turbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theweeklydriver.com\/files\/2012\/06\/velo1-200x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>Several people have said &#8220;oh noes&#8221; you can&#8217;t get rid of your MINI, or &#8220;what an ugly piece of crap, how can you want one of those!&#8221; so I thought I&#8217;d point out some reasons that the VT appeals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Price. For $26k or so I can get a sporty looking vehicle that can do 0-60 in just under 7 seconds, has sunroof, rear camera, 7&#8243; touch screen with Pandora, bluetooth, navigation etc&#8230;. I can even plug my PS3 into it and play games on the screen. I can&#8217;t get a comparable MINI, Audi, BMW (not that I ever would) etc for that<\/li>\n<li>Looks. I happen to like how it looks. Unlike the last point, we can agree to disagree.<\/li>\n<li>Cost Savings. I do about 23,000 miles a year, 2\/3rd of that on the motorways. Quick fag packet calculations&#8230; my MINI currently gets about 25 mpg, let&#8217;s say gas is $4 a gallon so that&#8217;s $3680 a year for the hot juice. The VT is advertised as 38, so lets say I actually get 34, gas is #3.80 a gallon so that&#8217;s $2570. I just saved a $1000 in gas. And I&#8217;m still having fun.<\/li>\n<li>Rarity. For better or worse I like vehicles that are different. My first car in the USA was a Toyota Paseo, have you ever seen one of those on the road? Exactly. So the VT appeals as it will be a car that turns heads (even if only to puke) and therefore appeals to that inner need I seem to have for attention (ah, the old dance competition days&#8230;.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there&#8217;s a few reasons. I think the car is going to be very hard to find for a while, but I really would like to get one before my MINI is up for registration at the end of August. My choice is for a Vitamin C (read: copper\/orange), Manual Transmission with the Ultimate package but I may have to give up on colour, we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people have said &#8220;oh noes&#8221; you can&#8217;t get rid of your MINI, or &#8220;what an ugly piece of crap, how can you want one of those!&#8221; so I thought I&#8217;d point out some reasons that the VT appeals. Price. For $26k or so I can get a sporty looking vehicle that can do 0-60 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=683\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why I Like the Veloster Turbo&#8221;<\/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":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-mini","category-veloster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}