{"id":2384,"date":"2010-04-26T09:24:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2010-04-26T09:24:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:24:32","slug":"pininfarina-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/2384","title":{"rendered":"Pininfarina X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Most Viewed Classifieds window on the Hemming&#8217;s blog, a concept car that I&#8217;d never run across before &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hemmings.com\/classifieds\/dealer\/pininfarina\/x\/1011574.html\">Pininfarina X<\/a>. One front wheel steering, two side wheels, and one wheel in back supplying power. That power comes from an 1,100 cc Fiat engine, churning out 43 monster horses. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motortrend.com\/features\/archive\/112_0106_pininfarina_x\/index.html\">*<\/a> Here&#8217;s the punch line &#8211; the asking price is $1,350,000 &#8211; you read that right &#8211; over a million bucks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pinin1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2385 aligncenter\" title=\"pinin1\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pinin1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pinin1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pinin1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pinin2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2386 aligncenter\" title=\"pinin2\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pinin2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pinin2.jpg 640w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pinin2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>Another web site asserts &#8220;the X also possessed twitchy and unpredictable handling&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diseno-art.com\/encyclopedia\/strange_vehicles\/pininfarina_x.html\">*<\/a> &#8211; a claim I have no trouble believing. A single steering wheel up front equals big entertainment, as the Robin Reliant racing rollover clip below demonstrates. I have no idea whether popping the power wheel off the pavement during hard cornering would help or not, and given the coolness of the body work, I have no interest in finding out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KGULcLUr0I4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Most Viewed Classifieds window on the Hemming&#8217;s blog, a concept car that I&#8217;d never run across before &#8211; the Pininfarina X. One front wheel steering, two side wheels, and one wheel in back supplying power. That power comes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/2384\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gearheadism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-Cs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}