{"id":31814,"date":"2014-06-20T11:08:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=31814"},"modified":"2014-06-20T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:08:32","slug":"mario-getting-new-ride-mario-kart-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2014\/06\/20\/mario-getting-new-ride-mario-kart-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario is getting a new ride in Mario Kart 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo is adding a Mercedes Benz GLA-class SUV to Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U in Europe and North America. The DLC kart will arrive &#8220;this summer&#8221; according to Nintendo&#8217;s official <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/480017305502773248\">Twitter<\/a> account. Nintendo has not confirmed that the Mercedes Benz DLC will be gratis in the West, but the kart was previously announced for Japan on May 28th as being a free update.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of the Mercedes Benz brings Mario Kart 8 closer to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2014\/05\/28\/mario-kart-8-just-darn-irresistable\/\">anything goes<\/a> credo of Sega&#8217;s Sonic &#038; All-Stars Racing Transformed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo is adding a Mercedes Benz GLA-class SUV to Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U in Europe and North America. The DLC kart will arrive &#8220;this summer&#8221; according to Nintendo&#8217;s official Twitter account. Nintendo has not confirmed that the Mercedes Benz DLC will be gratis in the West, but the kart was previously announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":31815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-31814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-mario-kart"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mario is getting a new ride in Mario Kart 8 - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2014\/06\/20\/mario-getting-new-ride-mario-kart-8\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mario is getting a new ride in Mario Kart 8 - Quarter to Three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nintendo is adding a Mercedes Benz GLA-class SUV to Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U in Europe and North America. 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