{"id":376,"date":"2007-02-26T20:47:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T00:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/26\/toronto-autoshow-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-02-26T20:52:52","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T00:52:52","slug":"toronto-autoshow-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/26\/toronto-autoshow-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Autoshow 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay and I went to the Toronto Autoshow this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattclare\/403506436\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"169\" height=\"240\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Autoshow\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/137\/403506436_c2f78e7cd4_m.jpg\" \/><\/a>Not surprisingly Lindsay and I wanted to check out some of the new more economical vehicles, which probably represented most of the new models on display.  The increase in gas prices and the strength of the import manufactures has made cheap cars fun again.  Lindz and I liked the Honda Fit, and Lindsay&#8217;s pictured here on the Honda Jazz.<\/p>\n<p>I was disappointed with Suzuki&#8217;s fleet.  Suzuki and Chevy would stop selling the <a title=\"Daewoo Kalos\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daewoo_Kalos\">Daewoo Kalos<\/a> as the Suzuki Swift and the Chevy Aveo &#8211; Lindsay noticed that it was the same car and a poorly built one (turn stock was broken-off).  Suzuki needs to bring the real <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suzuki_Swift#Suzuki_MK4_Swift_Sport_.282005-present.29\">Suzuki Swift<\/a> over from Europe and Japan.  We know it&#8217;s compatible for Canada because the boys over at <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.abc.net.au\/browse\/product.asp?productid=738868\">Top Gear used them to play a giant game of hockey<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe highlights for me was seeing the lines of the new Audi R8 and the Maserati Quattroporte in person, which could just have easily been on display in the AGO.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattclare\/403506881\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Autoshow\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/155\/403506881_ed5c6677ab_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattclare\/sets\/72157594557986526\/\">Flickr Photoset here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay and I went to the Toronto Autoshow this weekend. Not surprisingly Lindsay and I wanted to check out some of the new more economical vehicles, which probably represented most of the new models on display. The increase in gas prices and the strength of the import manufactures has made cheap cars fun again. Lindz&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/26\/toronto-autoshow-2007\/\">Continue Reading<span> Toronto Autoshow 2007<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}