{"id":235,"date":"2025-01-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2025-01-27T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T09:00:00","slug":"the-quiet-death-of-the-cheap-new-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"The Quiet Death of the Cheap New Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something is changing in the car world, and the implications reach further than they first appear.<\/p>\n<p>Strip away the headlines and a more nuanced picture emerges.<\/p>\n<h2 class='wp-block-heading'>What is really going on<\/h2>\n<p>The technology involved has matured faster than public perception of it. As a result, assumptions formed a few years ago are quietly going out of date, and decisions made on those assumptions deserve a fresh look.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>The interesting questions in cars are rarely about what changed \u2014 they are about why, and what it costs us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 class='wp-block-heading'>The other side<\/h2>\n<p>The counterargument has merit too. For certain drivers and certain conditions, the established option still wins, and the smartest buyers will weigh both honestly.<\/p>\n<h2 class='wp-block-heading'>The bottom line<\/h2>\n<p>Expect this to keep developing. The direction is clear, even if the timeline is not, and the smart move is to watch closely rather than assume the status quo will hold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quiet Death of the Cheap New Car \u2014 what it means, why it matters and what to watch next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55,54],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-analysis","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auto-bus.autos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}