{"id":43864,"date":"2011-10-27T09:46:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T13:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=43864"},"modified":"2011-10-27T09:46:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T13:46:15","slug":"kia-and-antenna-take-to-the-surf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2011\/10\/kia-and-antenna-take-to-the-surf\/","title":{"rendered":"Kia and Antenna Take to the Surf"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Antenna magazine works with Kia to come up with the modern surf buggy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We\u2019re still waiting to see who comes up with the first dune buggy based on the latest generation of the Volkswagen Beetle.\u00a0 In the meantime, we\u2019ll be happy to head for the beach in this tricked-out 2012 Kia Rio5 pulled together by Antenna magazine \u2013 which will make its debut at the upcoming SEMA Show.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not quite sure what the green stuff growing in the corner is, but we\u2019re assuming it\u2019s not medical marijuana.\u00a0 As for the rest of the revisions, Antenna and Kia seem to believe that surfers are an organized bunch, incorporating some well-placed shelves and drawers for sneakers, swimsuits and, we\u2019re assuming, wet suits.<\/p>\n

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It's Free!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What we don\u2019t seem to see is a place for surfboards.\u00a0 Perhaps the rack will be added in time for the SEMA event, which begins later this month in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a retro touch, the Antenna Kia Rio5 working in not only an old Atari game console but also a turntable.\u00a0 Remember records?<\/p>\n

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The stock 2012 Kia Rio5.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Based on the all-new Kia Rio hatchback, (<\/em>Click Here<\/span><\/a> for TheDetroitBureau.com\u2019s review)<\/em><\/strong>, the surf wagon gets a sunset-metallic paint job and the modified front splitter is appropriately made of wood, like the classic surfboards.<\/p>\n

The driveline is standard-issue, with a 1.6-liter inline-four that makes 138 horsepower and is rated at 30 mpg City, 40 Highway. The new Kia Rio line is the first mainstream product in the U.S. market to feature Stop\/Start technology that briefly shuts the engine off rather than idling, the engine restarting when the driver\u2019s foot lifts off the brake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s go surfin’ now, everybody’s surfin’ now…and I’ve got this bitchin’ Kia Rio5 modified by Antenna magazine. TheDetroitBureau.com checks out the concept surf buggy coming to the SEMA Show later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43864"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=43864"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=43864"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=43864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}