{"id":49355,"date":"2012-02-08T22:16:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T21:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=49355"},"modified":"2015-08-25T18:19:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T16:19:14","slug":"amg-boss-not-interested-in-super-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2012\/02\/08\/amg-boss-not-interested-in-super-diesel\/","title":{"rendered":"AMG Boss Not Interested in Super-Diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German supercar specialist AMG has no plans to follow its rival from Munich. <a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2012\/01\/26\/official-bmw-m-performance-automobiles-2\/\">BMW M introduced a series of high-performance diesels a few weeks ago<\/a> and AMG does not feel the need to follow them.<\/p>\n<p>AMG boss Ola Kallenius said such a move would introduce too many compromises to its performance-focused line-up, according to Autocar. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The technology of performance gasoline engines is converging with diesel tech. Direct injection, downsizing and turbocharging are all having an effect. We looked at diesel a few years back, but petrol engines have obvious benefits of sound, weight, agility and response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German supercar specialist AMG has no plans to follow its rival from Munich. BMW M introduced a series of high-performance diesels a few weeks ago and AMG does not feel the need to follow them. AMG boss Ola Kallenius said such a move would introduce too many compromises to its performance-focused line-up, according to Autocar. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":18520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[520,10,15325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49355"}],"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\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}