{"id":36530,"date":"2026-08-14T12:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36530"},"modified":"2026-08-14T12:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:02:15","slug":"class-of-2000-meet-the-new-dream-cruise-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/class-of-2000-meet-the-new-dream-cruise-classics","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2000: Meet the new Dream Cruise classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/08\/11\/PDTN\/91257977007-2000-class-hondas-2000-fr-34.jpg?width=660&amp;height=462&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"The 2000 Honda S2000 Roadster had the most horsepower per liter of any car in the U.S. market.\" width=\"539\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>The 2000 Honda S2000 Roadster had the most horsepower per liter of any car in the U.S. market.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Honda, Wieck<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">At the turn of the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century, the Detroit Pistons\u2019 newly hired GM Joe Dumars kicked off the Ben Wallace era, the Tigers moved into their new Comerica Park home, the Red Wings suffered a shock first-round exit to the LA Kings in the Stanley Cup playoffs, and the Lions went 9-7, narrowly missing the postseason. Motown\u2019s own Eminem broke through with The Marshall Mathers LP. Gladiator won Best Picture, PlayStation 2 sold like hotcakes, Vlad Putin was elected Russian president, Al Gore demanded a recount, America Online bought Time Warner and Santana\u2019s \u201cSmooth\u201d became a mega-hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On the automotive front, the new millennium birthed a fleet of automotive notables from American sedans to sleek sports cars to a BMW SUV made in the USA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Here\u2019s a look at the new antiques.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/woodward-dream-cruise\/2026\/08\/13\/new-dream-cruise-classics-meet-the-class-of-2000\/91246053007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2000 Honda S2000 Roadster had the most horsepower per liter of any car in the U.S. market. Honda, Wieck At the turn of the 20th\u00a0century, the Detroit Pistons\u2019 newly hired GM Joe Dumars kicked off the Ben Wallace era, the Tigers moved into their new Comerica Park home, the Red Wings suffered a shock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36530"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36531,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36530\/revisions\/36531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}