{"id":17048,"date":"2015-08-18T12:19:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T16:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=17048"},"modified":"2015-08-18T12:19:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T16:19:37","slug":"caged-cats-still-thrill-with-safe-smoky-burnouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/caged-cats-still-thrill-with-safe-smoky-burnouts","title":{"rendered":"Caged &#8216;Cats still thrill with safe, smoky burnouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"635752542901238811-Caged-cats\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/e9809bf39cb5dfd2a52d75628e730f70bc8919dd\/c=0-465-3662-3218&amp;r=x404&amp;c=534x401\/local\/-\/media\/2015\/08\/15\/DetroitNews\/DetroitNews\/635752542901238811-Caged-cats.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a little disappointed in our 2015 cruisers.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first year that Ford\u2019s \u201cline-lock\u201d burnout function \u2013 which allows drivers to smoke their tires without ever moving &#8212; is available in the 2015 Ford Mustang GT. The stunning \u201815s are everywhere. Yet in cruising the\u00a0strip all week, I have yet to see a GT light up its tires in place.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe folks aren\u2019t sure of the parameters of the Cruise\u2019s \u201cno burnout\u201d clause. Maybe they aren\u2019t familiar with the line-lock feature.<\/p>\n<p>But the Dodge boys have come to the rescue. Dodge loaded a Charger Hellcat and a vintage Challenger onto a semi-trailer and are towing it up and down Woodward today to do spontaneous burnouts. On the trailer. Behind a cage. Safe and smoky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re pretty sure it\u2019s legal,\u201d says Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis. \u201cAnd we think it\u2019ll give the fans a thrill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Count me thrilled. Since line-lock is production tech exclusive to Ford, I figure that the Dodges have been specially equipped for their Cruise stunt. The Hellcat-mania semi pulled onto Woodward this morning with its two caged, stationary animals smoking their wheels like mad. I followed the rig for a mile this afternoon on Woodward in my Alfa and didn\u2019t witness a burnout.<\/p>\n<p>But if I were stuck in traffic this evening at 2 miles an hour, that\u2019s where I would want to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a little disappointed in our 2015 cruisers. This is the first year that Ford\u2019s \u201cline-lock\u201d burnout function \u2013 which allows drivers to smoke their tires without ever moving &#8212; is available in the 2015 Ford Mustang GT. The stunning \u201815s are everywhere. Yet in cruising the\u00a0strip all week, I have yet to see a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17049,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048\/revisions\/17049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}