{"id":10183,"date":"2006-06-14T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/14\/congratulations-to-vladimir\/"},"modified":"2006-06-14T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T14:00:22","slug":"congratulations-to-vladimir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/14\/congratulations-to-vladimir\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Vladimir!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Today we&#8217;ve finally picked up Vladimir&#8217;s car.  He was waiting for it for about six month or so, while it was customized for him and shipped here.<\/p>\n<p>The car is a brand new Lexus IS220.  Deisel, manual, packed with features.<\/p>\n<p>We went to Lexus offices in Nicosia, where, after a few final paperwork touches, we were shown to the car.  The Lexus guy gave Vladimir a lengthy (half an hour or so) tour around the car and its features.<\/p>\n<p>You won&#8217;t believe how much stuff is in there!<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the usual things like ABS, traction control, remote control keys, and GPS navigation system there are things I wouldn&#8217;t ever thought about &#8211; CD\/DVD player, rear view camera which goes on automatically when reversing, front lights that can turn on when it gets dark, which also follow the car&#8217;s direction instead of shooting straight all the time, memory for a lot of settings, etc, etc, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of this car is definetely in the details.  Having listened throught the tour, I have a good idea about many of them, but surely not all.<\/p>\n<p>So, congratulations dude!  You&#8217;ve got yourself a really nice piece of technology.  Drive safe!<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Today we&#8217;ve finally picked up Vladimir&#8217;s car. He was waiting for it for about six month or so, while it was customized for him and shipped here. The car is a brand new Lexus IS220. Deisel, manual, packed with features. We went to Lexus offices in Nicosia, where, after a few final paperwork touches, we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/14\/congratulations-to-vladimir\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congratulations to Vladimir!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8200,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/12\/biggest-ever-motor-show\/","url_meta":{"origin":10183,"position":0},"title":"Biggest ever motor show","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 12, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"According to Xak.com, there is currently a huge motor show held in Nicosia. 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