Articles
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Showdown: How Do You Take Your Four Doors? Edition
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Our last Showdown was long, long ago, but still in this galaxy. Based on the results there, a sister blog of Beeriverse has some potential. Today, we’re keeping things a bit more practical. Run of the mill sedans for surprisingly cheap prices. At first, these two seem worlds apart: the Bavarian precision of the e12…
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SUV Showdown: Infiniti FX50S Vs Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8
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When life gives you lemons, you’re supposed to make lemonade. When your press car suppliers give you two 400ish horsepower SUVs, you make hoonade. The recipe? Take equal parts Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 and Infiniti FX50s, stir vigorously on a pre-dawn canyon drive, whip mercilessly on the semi-abandoned roads of California City, and let simmer…
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Questionable C Pillar Trim…..
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During Auto Show season this past year, I was appalled at the cheap “C” pillar trim on the new Jaguar XJ series sedans. To me, something this tacky should never be on a car in this price range, let alone one costing half as much. So I thought that this topic was a perfect subject…
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OnStar, How May I Help You?
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“This is OnStar Emergency, have you just been in an accident?” “Yes, I am a vehicle porter for a GM plant and I just crashed this minty-fresh Malibu. I was loading it onto a freight train and I decided to ram the train going 35 mph… what should I do?” “Blame it on Toyota?” Updated!
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Car Dealer Ad Hell- Family Auto Mart
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHEauiQVAHA&feature=related[/youtube] Stereotypes, no matter how gently they are presented, are typically found to be offensive by their intended targets. That kind of political correctness is thankfully lacking in this jaw-dropping TV ad for Central Florida’s Family Auto Mart car dealership. While this ad seems to be an invitation to indigent hillbillies- not to buy a…
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Hooniverse Asks – What Does it All Mean???
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Who hasn’t imagined themselves behind the wheel of an F1 car? In that daydream, you just hop in and set a new track record, showing all those “professionals” how it’s really done. If you could live out your fantasy in real life, however, they’d strap you in and then lock one of these wheels, looking…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Kind of Car is your Girl (or Guy)?
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Yesterday we asked you whether you anthropomorphized your ride, and if so, what was its personality. Today we’re pulling a 180 and want you to objectify that certain someone in your life – and to tell us what kind of car they’d be.
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V.I.S.I.T. – Tourister Transplant Edition
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Question: You’re rollin’ cool, minding your business, cruising at speed deep in the US heartland when you suddenly – and there’s no way you could possibly freakin’ not do so – see these things across the way as you pass right by. And somehow in that fleeting moment, instead of wondering just when the heck…
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NSU Spider Wankel Formerly Known as Prinz Makes a Rare eBay Appearance
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Purple rain, pur-ple rain. . . oops, sorry. Before Mazda let us know that while others went boing-boing-boing, they went hmmmmmm, NSU brought to market the world’s first production car powered by a Wankel engine. And now eBay has an NSU Spider with a starting bid of $15,000. Does that make you go hmmmmm?
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Team Trailing Throttle Oversteer is looking for Members; Are you crazy enough to join?
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It’s that time of year, and I have to start looking for team members for the upcoming LeMons New England race. Want to come aboard?
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Heading to ChumpCar Next Weekend? Try Your Hand At Some Beer Pong
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I was just sent an email from friend of Hooniverse Rob Krider about something fun they have planned for the upcoming ChumpCar race, next weekend at Infineon Raceway. If you enjoy competition AND drinking, then you are in store for a treat. I present the: Krider Racing Beer Pong Tournament at ChumpCar .. er, yeah…
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Only in Japan…
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…would a Nissan Juke, quite possibly the ugliest affront to the Hellenistic concept of beauty in the classical Greco-Roman tradition since Nu Descendant un Escalier, rock neon-green wheels, yellow headlight covers, and be slammed to within an inch of its life. Luckily, this isn’t real; merely the fevered imaginings of errant pixels spat from an…
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Last Call- Zen and the Art of. . . Edition
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The upside of wearing monk’s robes and nothing else while riding a sport bike? Testicular cooling. The bad side? Sacred beetles to the crotch at 80 miles per hour. Image source: [go.funpic.hu]
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Corre! Viene El Diablo! 350-Powered 914 Will Eat Your Soul
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The 914 is widely regarded as the best handling sports car no one loved. As always, Ate Up With Motor has a great writeup, for those interested. Getting back to something more Hooniverse flavored, this car (“El Diablo”) throws all that handling balance and subtlety out the window in favor of more cubes. Specifically 350…
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License Plate Badassity- Web Meme Edition
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The plate on this Volvo – parked in the Griffith Observatory parking lot – proves two things; that its owner probably has like a million followers on Twitter; and that the DMV employee who approved his vanity plate doesn’t even know what Twitter is. ROTFL! Image source: [Reddit]
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Nothing You've Accomplished is as Cool as This: Crawler Town
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Ahem: Crawler town roams the barren wastes of a post steam-punk world after cataclysmic climate change do to excessive coal use. Several such cities exist but Crawler town is the most popular due to the Aero 500 hydrogen fuel cell Air races that are held. Many people travel the wastes to Crawler town for vacation…