{"id":35,"date":"2005-07-28T21:48:05","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T11:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=35"},"modified":"2014-03-29T13:24:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T03:24:55","slug":"first-ferrari-ride-giddyup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"First Ferrari ride\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 giddyup!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, there are times when being a journalist isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so bad. Going for a free Ferrari ride is one such occasion!<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks back now, I was invited to the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acer.com.au\">Acer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/a> new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acer.com.au\/Ferrari4000\/index.html\">Ferrari 4000 notebook<\/a> at its Australian head office and assembly plant in Homebush, Sydney. To celebrate the launch Acer hired a Ferrari (complete with driver, unfortunately) and took a few journos for a well-deserved spin.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to drive (the 360 Modena has a tricky sequential gear change mechanism) but I did indeed get to ride around the streets of Sydney Olympic Park. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the proof\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ferrari\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/ferrari_scale.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yep, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s yours truly wishing I could take it home. Well, maybe one day.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Acer for the opportunity and Spectrum Communications\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (who are always a pleasure to deal with, seriously) Will McIntyre for taking the photo. Sure you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing some professional photography on the side Will?<\/p>\n<p>I could say what speed we reached by that will probably get me into trouble\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And I could go on and describe the experience, like the feel and smell of the inside, but I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. Go for a ride yourself \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>Rodney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, there are times when being a journalist isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so bad. Going for a free Ferrari ride is one such occasion! A few weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daytoday","category-media-relations-every-pr-should-read-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}