{"id":13253,"date":"2009-11-27T21:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=13253"},"modified":"2015-08-26T00:11:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T22:11:15","slug":"essen-2009-overkill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2009\/11\/27\/essen-2009-overkill\/","title":{"rendered":"Essen 2009: Overkill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2009\/11\/essen_2009_overkill.jpg\" alt=\"Essen 2009 Overkill\" title=\"Essen 2009 Overkill\" width=\"450\" height=\"230\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/essen_2009_overkill.jpg 450w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/essen_2009_overkill-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Essen Motor Show proved once again very valuable for our <a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/category\/car-news\/overkill\/\">Overkill<\/a> category, no less than eight cars scored our qualification overkill. <\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The most remarkable &#8216;creation&#8217; at the Essen Motor Show this year was drag race Smart. The huge front spoiler, rear spoiler and extended chassis combined with a purple paint job clearly earns this Smart the overkill tag.  <\/p>\n<p>Another very interesting model is a 1970s Rolls Royce Silver Shadow modified to have an output of 1350hp from the V8. 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One of them is clearly a few steps to far, lowered to the ground with a over the top paint job and interior.  <\/p>\n<p>Another car worth mentioning is the &#8216;Hello Bitchy&#8217; Chrysler 300C. Lowered, equipped with tinted windows and a matte pink \/ white paint job and a list of Girls \/ Boys on the hood we can only imagine the driver been &#8216;in touch with&#8217; it looks like the perfect car for US-celebrity Tila Tequila&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Essen Motor Show proved once again very valuable for our Overkill category, no less than eight cars scored our qualification overkill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[992],"tags":[4418,4417,4348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}