{"id":8607,"date":"2017-11-27T16:54:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=8607"},"modified":"2017-11-27T16:54:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:54:19","slug":"the-most-iconic-sports-car-in-the-world-at-dubai-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/the-most-iconic-sports-car-in-the-world-at-dubai-international\/","title":{"rendered":"The most iconic sports car in the world at Dubai International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A partnership between Baume &amp; Mercier, Dubai Airports and JCDecaux<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8608\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/car-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/car-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/car-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/car-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/car-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/car.jpg 1311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the next evolution of the partnership with the Carroll Shelby Company initiated in 2015, Baume &amp; Mercier partnered with Dubai Airports and JCDecaux to bring one of the rarest American sports cars in the world to Dubai: the iconic Shelby\u00ae Cobra 427*.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960\u2019s, after a great career as a driver, Caroll Shelby set his sights on creating cars that would be faster, lighter, more nimble and able to win against the world\u2019s best. He took an AC chassis, inserted a Ford V8 engine and re-engineered the car to handle the additional power. A dream revealed him the name: The Shelby \u00ae Cobra was born. Several versions were built between 1962-1966 from the original 260 through the 289 and 427 S\/C cubic models to the Cobra Daytona Coupe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A partnership between Baume &amp; Mercier, Dubai Airports and JCDecaux As the next evolution of the partnership with the Carroll Shelby Company initiated in 2015, Baume &amp; Mercier partnered with Dubai Airports and JCDecaux to bring one of the rarest American sports cars in the world to Dubai: the iconic Shelby\u00ae Cobra 427*. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8609,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions\/8609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}