{"id":12092,"date":"2015-02-09T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12092"},"modified":"2015-02-09T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T12:50:35","slug":"the-rich-mans-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-rich-mans-van\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rich Man\u2019s Van"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/020915_1240_TheRichMans1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles has the worst congestion in all of America. The Economist took a look at how this changes purchasing incentives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Becker Automotive Design builds customized vans that give LA&#8217;s elite ways to kill time as they wait in traffic.<\/li>\n<li>Features include flat screen televisions, touch-screen computers, wireless internet, seats for a family, and even bathrooms.<\/li>\n<li>One fitness obsessed customer wanted a stationary bike nailed to the floor so that they could work out in traffic.<\/li>\n<li>The cars are decadently luxurious on the inside, but look dull on the outside so as not to attract the attention of fans \u2013 as the traffic would make it impossible to get away from them.<\/li>\n<li>The basic model costs $150,000, and the cost can go as high as $500,000 for armour which is popular with Middle Eastern and African customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the vehicles, and other famous clients <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/united-states\/21642228-vehicles-make-waiting-traffic-pleasure-vans-rich-and-gridlocked?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/united-states\/21642228-vehicles-make-waiting-traffic-pleasure-vans-rich-and-gridlocked?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles has the worst congestion in all of America. The Economist took a look at how this changes purchasing incentives: Becker Automotive Design builds customized vans that give LA&#8217;s elite ways to kill time as they wait in traffic. Features include flat screen televisions, touch-screen computers, wireless internet, seats for a family, and even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/020915_1240_TheRichMans1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12096,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092\/revisions\/12096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}