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Upholster your seats in your father's trousers!
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When discussing the merits of semi-affordable, FWD hot hatches, one factor that always comes into play when weighing the GTI’s merits is its rad, optional plaid seats. “The Mini Cooper handles better, the Mazdaspeed 3 is faster, the Type-R (for our readers across the pond) is cheaper to maintain, when the Fiat 500 comes here…
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Showdown – Dubiously Awesome Turbo Ponycars Edition
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I’m shocked to learn that you lot would pick one of the most plentiful 4x4s of all time over an orangered oddball custom-built behemoth with a removable roof. Todaye we have a showdown only a thermodynamicist could love. We’ve got two pony cars from an era when Detroit was testing out a replacement for displacement:…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Was Your Worst Car Repair Experience?
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Yesterday we asked about the bad experiences you had with buying a car, and you provided us with some great war stories about bad dealers, untrustworthy private sellers, and cars that weren’t all the ads said they were. Now that those nightmares are behind you, tell us what it’s been like to get them fixed.
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Sweet Sixteen
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A sixteen cylinder engine is a beautiful thing. Typically they are found nestled into the most elegant of classic coach-built bodywork or the most exotic of supercars. Sometimes however they make their way into a vehicle that you might not expect. Read on to find out more…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Vintage Car & Track Videos; Let's waste the rest of the weekend!
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There is a You Tube member, MIRADART, that has been sharing their collection of classic Car & Track videos, and the first one I want to share is the Avanti II. To see some of these videos, you will have to make the jump…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Flaming Engine Failure via BangShift.
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This post I spotted over at BangShift, and well, what can I say? The videl speaks for itself. But you will have to see it after the jump….
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Happy Birthday to the Automobile!
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For those of you unaware, today is the day that many would consider the birthday of the automobile. Today, January 29, is the date that Karl Benz patented his original three-wheeled motorcar, the Patent Motorwagen, back in 1886.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: The V8 Hotel in Stuttgart, Germany.
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This is just about the greatest idea in Hotels that I have seen in a long while. This posting over at CarDomain caught my attention, and I thought it was something worth sharing. Introducing the V8 Hotel in Meilenwerk, Stuttgart, Germany.
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Question of the Weekend: Say you're the owner of a Trucking Company; What would You run?
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Simple enough question, or is it. What kind of Trucking Company are you? Moving and Storage? Less than Truckload Shipped? Produce Hauler? Baked Goods? Rubbish Hauler? See, maybe it’s not so easy. I’ll make this easy. State what you want to haul, then decide on the fleet of trucks. This should be interesting.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: 1959 Fiat 682/RN2 Bartoletti Open-Deck Race Transporter
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Imagine arriving at an historic race with your vintage Ferrari on this instead of in an enclosed trailer. It can happen, as Automotive Traveler’s Rich Truesdell discovered recently, and it can be yours if you have the scratch. Read more after the jump.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: The Mitsubishi Fuso FK260. Can I possibly write anything interesting about this thing?
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Yes it’s time again for another DieselFumes posting, and this time I will outline the Mitsubishi-Fuso FK260. It is set up to be a standard delivery vehicle, one that you see time and time again on the highways and city streets all across America. So what makes the Fuso so special. Ahhh, you must make…
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Et Tu, Ferrari?
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If you’ve got even half an ear to the cacophony that is the auto news world, you probably heard a disturbing piece of information from Ferrari earlier this week. No, I’m not talking about the fact that the 458 Italia will be the newest Autobot in Transformers 3 – though that’s unsettling enough in its…
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Screw it, We're Moving to Sweden
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An old pal from a job that’s partially responsible for my screen name tipped me to some top-shelf Swedish vodka insanity. We bring you the Heron Hillclimb, which we can best describe as a mini Pike’s Peak mixed with a typical crop of Cars and Coffee attendees. Seriously, this is madness…
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The Chrysler Sno-Runner; A Small, Affordabe, and Fuel Efficient Chrysler!
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Thanks to Deartháir’s posting about a Tracked Motorcycle, and in honor of Two-Wheel Tuesday, I thought I would dredge up this little piece of history. Ok, so it doesn’t exactly have two wheels, but I think it’s appropriate….. well, maybe not, but enjoy anyway.
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Dakar Rally Pics to Make You Drool. Bring a Towel
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We’ve been tipped off to a whole cache of amazing Dakar photos. Hydrate, put on your Nomex and sunscreen, shake the sand out of your Underoos, and make the jump for a taste.
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Objects in Mirror are Far, Farther Away Than They Appear
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Not sure who the redhead is, but whatever job they’re carpooling to is probably pretty sweet. Source: Shingo.ca via FFFFOUND