{"id":3004,"date":"2016-09-14T14:05:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leithcars.com\/blogs\/1421\/?p=3004"},"modified":"2016-09-14T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:05:53","slug":"zero-60-leith-acura-celebrate-30-years-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/?p=3004","title":{"rendered":"Zero to 60 and Leith Acura Celebrate 30 Years in Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago, Acura decided to bring their luxury vehicles to the United States and Canada. They started by opening up 60 franchises, and one of those franchises happened to be Leith Acura.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"audioBoom player\" src=\"\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/boos\/5039353-leith-cars-com-episode-9-of-zero-to-60-on-30-years-of-leith-acura\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAANza1lf55EwA?rel=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->It\u2019s hard to believe that Acura has only been around for 30 years, but it\u2019s true. Their first real success came with the 1987 Acura Legend. Acura was selling around 109,000 cars in 1990 (more than Lexus, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz) and half of those sales were Acura Legends. Needless to say, it\u2019s a brand Leith is proud to represent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3007\" src=\"#BLOGPATH#\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/download.jpeg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"960\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/download.jpeg 960w, http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/download-300x202.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/download-768x517.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward to 2016, and Leith Acura is still going strong. In fact, they just sold their first Acura NSX. Want the second? Call up and let them know, or go out to the dealership!<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye on the blog for the latest automotive news, and stay tuned for the next installment of Zero to 60 with Mark Arsen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago, Acura decided to bring their luxury vehicles to the United States and Canada. They started by opening up 60 franchises, and one of those franchises happened to be Leith Acura.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,23,31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-cars","category-news","category-videos","category-zero-to-60"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}