{"id":112,"date":"2021-08-15T20:02:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T20:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/?p=112"},"modified":"2021-08-15T20:02:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T20:02:51","slug":"grocery-getters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"Grocery Getters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"685\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alexenders.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GroceryGetters.jpg?resize=685%2C355&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alexenders.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GroceryGetters.jpg?resize=1024%2C531&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alexenders.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GroceryGetters.jpg?resize=300%2C155&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alexenders.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GroceryGetters.jpg?resize=768%2C398&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alexenders.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GroceryGetters.jpg?resize=685%2C355&amp;ssl=1 685w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alexenders.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GroceryGetters.jpg?w=1436&amp;ssl=1 1436w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alexenders.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GroceryGetters.jpg?w=1370&amp;ssl=1 1370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the top left, going clockwise: Mercedes, Audi, BMW, and Skoda. All proving that the canonical station wagon (a.k.a., &#8220;Grocery Getter&#8221;, a.k.a., Swaggin Wagon) can still be attractive in a more aerodynamically friendly configuration than your typical Sport Utility Vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2019 Skoda Combi shown above gets 4.8 l \/ 100 km, or about 49 mpg, and has 1740 liters of cargo volume (61.4 ft^3). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For comparison, a 2019 Honda CR-V gets about 8 l \/ 100 km (29 mpg), but has a bigger cargo capacity of 2146 liters ((75.8 ft^3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s 40% better fuel economy for 19% less cargo space. To be fair, I don&#8217;t think any of these cars (CR-V included) would seat more than 5 people, but I wish cars like the above were more popular &#8212; heck, even <em>offered<\/em> &#8212; in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the top left, going clockwise: Mercedes, Audi, BMW, and Skoda. All proving that the canonical station wagon (a.k.a., &#8220;Grocery Getter&#8221;, a.k.a., Swaggin Wagon) can still be attractive in a more aerodynamically friendly configuration than your typical Sport Utility Vehicle. The 2019 Skoda Combi shown above gets 4.8 l \/ 100 km, or about 49 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/?p=112\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grocery Getters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexenders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}