{"id":306,"date":"2017-04-01T22:54:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T06:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.evanyamoto.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2017-04-01T22:54:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T06:54:32","slug":"back-to-reliability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/01\/back-to-reliability\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Reliability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, my wife keeps getting new cars! \u00a0I&#8217;ve sold my BMWs, temporarily had an old 4Runner, and now drive a minivan&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But it was time. \u00a0My wife loved her VW Tiguan, but it was starting to have a lot of mechanical problems and other problems as well. \u00a0It was really a nice little car that seemed very solid. \u00a0However, they use a lot of cheap plastic parts that you don&#8217;t see, and these break and are costly to fix. \u00a0So we sold that and got an Acura RDX.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_3417.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-307\" src=\"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_3417-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very nice car that I got to drive home from a dealership out in Riverside, and that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_3418.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-308\" src=\"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_3418-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took these bad photos when I got home and the sun wasn&#8217;t in the right spot, but that&#8217;s the car.<\/p>\n<p>It drives great, has lots of power and everything is very refined. \u00a0I&#8217;m hoping now that we have switched from German cars to Japanese cars, they&#8217;ll be much more reliable.<\/p>\n<p>The only bad thing about this car is that it made me miss driving something other than a minivan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, my wife keeps getting new cars! \u00a0I&#8217;ve sold my BMWs, temporarily had an old 4Runner, and now drive a minivan&#8230; But it was time. \u00a0My wife loved her VW Tiguan, but it was starting to have a lot of mechanical problems and other problems as well. \u00a0It was really a nice little car that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cars","tag-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}