{"id":219,"date":"2014-06-12T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2014-06-10T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:05:55","slug":"ford-experiments-with-lightweight-concepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/ford-experiments-with-lightweight-concepts.html","title":{"rendered":"Ford Experiments with Lightweight Concepts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lighter Ford Fusion, like any lighter car, is something enthusiasts have been championing for years, and now it is becoming a reality. Ford, with the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Vehicle Technologies Program, has built six Lightweight Concepts.<\/p>\n<p>The Ford Lightweight Concept is built on a 2013 Fusion, a car whose curb weight starts at 3,431 pounds and goes progressively to 3,913 pounds for the Energi.<\/p>\n<p>This Fusion lost about 800 pounds from stock. It now weighs in at around 2,600 pounds\u2014as light as the Ford Fiesta of which it shares its lightweight, 1.0-liter, 3-cylinder EcoBoost engine. 30% of the weight savings came from the suspension alone, while 35% came from the interior and the glass.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/article\/20140610\/CARNEWS\/140609844\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lighter Ford Fusion, like any lighter car, is something enthusiasts have been championing for years, and now it is becoming a reality. Ford, with the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Vehicle Technologies Program, has built six Lightweight Concepts. The Ford Lightweight Concept is built on a 2013 Fusion, a car whose curb weight starts at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22,23],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-news","tag-ford","tag-fusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}