{"id":12224,"date":"2020-01-06T19:53:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T02:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=12224"},"modified":"2020-01-06T19:54:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T02:54:45","slug":"the-stelvio-pass-not-for-the-faint-of-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=12224","title":{"rendered":"The Stelvio Pass: not for the faint of heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Stelvio-e1578365336813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/>Love to drive? How about considering the Stelvio Pass in northern Italy with its 48 hairpin turns.<\/p>\n<p>The route was picked by the British automotive show <i><a title=\"Top Gear (2002 TV series)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Top_Gear_(2002_TV_series)\">Top Gear<\/a><\/i> as its choice for the \u201cgreatest driving road in the world\u201d in the first episode of the show\u2019s 10<sup>th<\/sup> series, after its team went in search of a road that would satisfy every petrolhead&#8217;s driving fantasies.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, <a title=\"Moto Guzzi\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moto_Guzzi\">Moto Guzzi<\/a> started selling a <a title=\"Moto Guzzi Stelvio\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moto_Guzzi_Stelvio\">Stelvio<\/a> model, named after the pass.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12226\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12226\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12226\" src=\"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Stelvio-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"166\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Alfa Romeo Stelvio crossover SUV.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Alfa Romeo debuted its <a title=\"Alfa Romeo Stelvio\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfa_Romeo_Stelvio\">Stelvio<\/a> crossover SUV at the 2016 Los Angeles Motor Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love to drive? How about considering the Stelvio Pass in northern Italy with its 48 hairpin turns. The route was picked by the British automotive show Top Gear as its choice for the \u201cgreatest driving road in the world\u201d in the first episode of the show\u2019s 10th series, after its team went in search of<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=12224\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,1],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-12224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alfa-romeo","category-general","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224","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=12224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12228,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224\/revisions\/12228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}