{"id":7197,"date":"2013-06-15T12:27:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T17:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=7197"},"modified":"2018-07-31T06:24:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T11:24:27","slug":"mercedes-love-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/7197","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes Love&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Mercedes-Benz diesel-powered mid-size sedan is as durable a notion as you&#8217;ll find in autodom. Mercedes created the world&#8217;s first production diesel-powered passenger car in 1935 and began putting oil burners in its mid-sizers (a.k.a. Pontons) in 1955. The very words <em>Mercedes diesel\u009d<\/em> conjure all kinds of associations, from college professors who have forsaken their Peugeots, to wiry German mechanics, to cab drivers in Kabul. It&#8217;s an archetype; a 911 Turbo for meerschaum-smoking squares, a Shelby Mustang for people who got beat up in high school&#8230;&#8221; &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/reviews\/mercedes-benz-e-class-review-mercedes-e350-diesel-test\"><em>Eddie Alterman, Car and Driver<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One thing I feel most passionately about: love of invention will never die.&#8221; &#8211;<em>Karl Benz<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The best or nothing.&#8221; &#8211;<em>Gottlieb Daimler<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When you get into the car and time stands still for a second&#8230;that&#8217;s my dream car.&#8221; &#8211;<em>unknown<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_7879.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7198\" title=\"IMG_7879\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_7879.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_7879.jpg 500w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_7879-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;still in it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Mercedes-Benz diesel-powered mid-size sedan is as durable a notion as you&#8217;ll find in autodom. Mercedes created the world&#8217;s first production diesel-powered passenger car in 1935 and began putting oil burners in its mid-sizers (a.k.a. Pontons) in 1955. The very words Mercedes diesel\u009d conjure all kinds of associations, from college professors who have forsaken their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[84,31],"class_list":["post-7197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-mercedes-love","tag-road-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}