{"id":2936,"date":"2010-03-09T16:58:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2010-03-09T18:08:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T01:08:14","slug":"sudden-acceleration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/sudden-acceleration\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden Acceleration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.automobilemag.com\/features\/news\/1003_sudden_acceleration_the_early_years\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-attachment-id=\"2937\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/sudden-acceleration\/1003_02_z1986_audi_5000front_three_quarters_view\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/1003_02_z+1986_audi_5000+front_three_quarters_view.jpg?fit=750%2C469&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"750,469\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1003_02_z+1986_audi_5000+front_three_quarters_view\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/1003_02_z+1986_audi_5000+front_three_quarters_view.jpg?fit=270%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/1003_02_z+1986_audi_5000+front_three_quarters_view.jpg?fit=540%2C337&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2937\" title=\"1003_02_z+1986_audi_5000+front_three_quarters_view\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/1003_02_z+1986_audi_5000+front_three_quarters_view.jpg?resize=540%2C337\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/1003_02_z+1986_audi_5000+front_three_quarters_view.jpg?resize=540%2C337&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/1003_02_z+1986_audi_5000+front_three_quarters_view.jpg?resize=270%2C168&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/1003_02_z+1986_audi_5000+front_three_quarters_view.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toyota &#8211; your not the first.  Sudden acceleration syndrome has made some <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com\/up\/player\/popup\/?cl=18534451\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a> lately.  But lets not forget this isn&#8217;t anything new.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.automobilemag.com\/features\/news\/1003_sudden_acceleration_the_early_years\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Automobile Magazine<\/a> takes a look back at the early years of this phenomena.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Audi sales plummeted from a peak of 74,061 units in 1985 to only 12,283 sales by 1991.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I doubt Toyota&#8217;s sales will plummet like Audi&#8217;s did in the late 80s&#8230; as this is merely a small blip on the radar for the worlds largest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyota.com\/recall\/\" target=\"_blank\">automobile maker<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Back on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Audi_Quattro\" target=\"_blank\">quattro<\/a> side of things &#8211; If only we could do something to slow the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiusa.com\/us\/brand\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\">growth<\/a> of Audi today.  I&#8217;m tired of seeing my brand placed into the hands of so many incapable drivers.  What happened to BMW being the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2006\/08\/07\/bmw-drops-ultimate-driving-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\">ultimate driving machine<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.automobilemag.com\/features\/news\/1003_sudden_acceleration_the_early_years\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Full<\/a>]<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.automild.com\/2011-audi-a1-news-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\">A1<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota &#8211; your not the first. Sudden acceleration syndrome has made some news lately. But lets not forget this isn&#8217;t anything new. Automobile Magazine takes a look back at the early years of this phenomena. Audi sales plummeted from a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/sudden-acceleration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[164,140,3,6],"tags":[542,233,539,540,541,448],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2oCe7-Lm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2936"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2952,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}