{"id":1949,"date":"2016-11-14T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2016-11-14T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T11:00:55","slug":"vtec-stickers-do-not-a-racecar-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/14\/vtec-stickers-do-not-a-racecar-make\/","title":{"rendered":"VTEC Stickers Do Not A Racecar Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always kind of puzzling when you see a car that has stickers or emblems added on saying things like &#8220;turbo&#8221; or some other word that means it&#8217;s fast and fancy.\u00a0 If they&#8217;re trying to impress people who know about cars, those are the exact people who will know that the sticker is a lie.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1958\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016_11_14_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_11_14_01.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Honda&#8217;s VTEC system has become one of those, and people will say their car has VTEC even when it doesn&#8217;t, because it makes it sound impressive. The Si version of this Civic did come with the 2.0L i-VTEC motor, but this obviously wasn&#8217;t, especially because the trunk still had the &#8220;1.8L&#8221; badge. Anybody with a good knowledge of Hondas will immediately spot this as a fake.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always kind of puzzling when you see a car that has stickers or emblems added on saying things like &#8220;turbo&#8221; or some other word that means it&#8217;s fast and fancy.\u00a0 If they&#8217;re trying to impress people who know about cars, those are the exact people who will know that the sticker is a lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-engines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}