{"id":10272,"date":"2016-12-16T22:20:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T05:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=10272"},"modified":"2016-12-16T22:48:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T05:48:49","slug":"infiniti-takes-first-u-s-vehicle-to-cuba-in-58-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=10272","title":{"rendered":"Infiniti takes first U.S. vehicle to Cuba in 58 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10276\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10276\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276\" src=\"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Infiniti-Q60-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Infiniti-Q60-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Infiniti-Q60.jpg 527w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Infiniti Q60.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Alfonso Albaisa, Infinit executive design director, took an all-new INFINITI Q60 to Havana\u2014the first U.S.-spec car registered in Cuba in 58 years\u2014to trace his roots back to his parents&#8217; birthplace.<\/p>\n<p>Now based in Japan, where he oversees all four INFINITI design studios across the world, Alfonso grew up in Miami. This was his first opportunity to visit Cuba and see the curves of the mid-century modern architecture of his great-uncle Max Borges-Recio, including the Tropicana, Club Nautico, as well as Borges Recio&#8217;s own home.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, Albaisa may have also found the origins of his own design DNA that he sees expressed in the unique flowing lines of current Infiniti vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3c4yFBWOsyg&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong> to see Albaisa&#8217;s visit to Cuba with the Q60.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfonso Albaisa, Infinit executive design director, took an all-new INFINITI Q60 to Havana\u2014the first U.S.-spec car registered in Cuba in 58 years\u2014to trace his roots back to his parents&#8217; birthplace. Now based in Japan, where he oversees all four INFINITI design studios across the world, Alfonso grew up in Miami. This was his first opportunity<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=10272\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-10272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infiniti","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10281,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions\/10281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}