{"id":140,"date":"2010-11-12T19:16:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T00:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/12\/oxymoron\/"},"modified":"2010-11-12T19:52:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T00:52:42","slug":"oxymoron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/12\/oxymoron\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxymoron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101112-071539.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101112-071539.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MINI of Peabody has a new Countryman in the showroom for just a few days so I quickly stopped in to have a look. My feelings were mixed on the mini SUV so I wanted to see it in the flesh and now&#8230; my feelings are still mixed. I was impressed with the interior, the rear legroom with the rear seats slid back was still small but the layout was very functional. The new center stack is a definite improvement over the garish &#8217;07 design, and the orange\/anthracite scheme looked nice. From the side, the Countryman almost looks like a small Cayenne. Unfortunately they went overboard on the front end aggressiveness, and we were all wondering why the rear bumper (and taillights!) stick out disturbingly far. I&#8217;m sure the combination of extra interior space and all wheel drive will make it very successful in New England as I&#8217;ve heard so many people say they like MINIs but think they need those features. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINI of Peabody has a new Countryman in the showroom for just a few days so I quickly stopped in to have a look. My feelings were mixed on the mini SUV so I wanted to see it in the flesh and now&#8230; my feelings are still mixed. I was impressed with the interior, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-mini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}