{"id":1415,"date":"2006-08-15T09:57:55","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T17:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/the_vroom-vroom_era_begins_on_all_cylinders.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T18:38:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T23:38:37","slug":"the_vroomvroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/the_vroomvroom.html","title":{"rendered":"The Vroom-Vroom Era Begins On All Cylinders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/dukes_of_harlem.html\">dream of the Dodge Chargers<\/a> has become <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/443563p-373582c.html\">a reality in its full symbolic glory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Forget about Boss Hogg: The NYPD is taking a page from &#8220;The Dukes of Hazzard&#8221; in picking the speedy police car of the future.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Department is testing new Dodge Chargers, with 5.7-liter engines, that can hit up to 150 mph. The Duke Boys&#8217; General Lee also was a Dodge Charger &#8212; albeit the 1969 edition of the muscle car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Technically, these cars are symbolic of where we are today&#8221; in crime fighting, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Dodge is charging the city $28,511 per car.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dream of the Dodge Chargers has become a reality in its full symbolic glory: Forget about Boss Hogg: The NYPD is taking a page from &#8220;The Dukes of Hazzard&#8221; in picking the speedy police car of the future. The Police Department is testing new Dodge Chargers, with 5.7-liter engines, that can hit up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}