Articles
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Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and…Hofmeister Kinks?!
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It wasn’t all that long ago that Americans bought full-size, rear-drive, body on frame passenger cars in numbers large enough to more than justify producing them. However, sales of coupe versions of these leviathans tanked before the bottom fell out of the entire segment. But the market for big sedan-based two-doors still had a pulse…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Non-Car Company Would You Most Like To See Build One?
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Most of the companies building cars these days have been doing so for decades, and a couple for over a century. The newest kids on the block, Telsa and the like, arose from the either as single-purpose car builders. That doesn’t mean there isn’t room for more at the table, and there’s plenty of brands…
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Last Call – O HAI GUYZ Edition
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WHAT’S GOIN ON IN HERE? (Alternatively, if I weren’t so shameless then I wouldn’t use this space to plug my current blog, steering wheel faces, with more charming examples of automotive pareidolia! Alas, I am a shameless man.)
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Last Call- If A Car Horn Honks in the Forest. . .Edition
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Despite looking Shopped, it’s still pretty funny. Image source: [DIYFail.com]
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Volkswagen and Apple – A Match Made in Hipster Heaven?
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I like Volkswagen. They have been making good cars for years, be they interesting, fun, or occasionally sporty (R32 Mk IV, please be mine). I like Apple. They have been making shiny, well built products for a few years now. I own a first generation iPhone (though it has been relegated to iPod duty for…
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Last Call- Your Car Is How Fast? Edition
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Intrinsically evil-looking, record book shattering, and detente-driving are only some of the phrases that could be used to describe the SR71. With the possible exception of the Lamborghini Reventon no car has ever come close to matching the batman-on-crack styling of these planes, even though they are a product of late fifties technology and engineering.…
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Streetwalking- Mercedes 190SL
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While it’s not located at my favorite road-side used car lot, this buttercup-yellow Mercedes Benz 190SL does sport a For Sale sign in its plastic back window. The car was parked in front of the neighborhood Land Rover repair business, and as most everything around there was closed for the day, I assumed it had…
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The Rustman Cometh: 1973 BMW 3.0 CS is an Automotive Siren
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The seller describes this ’73 e9 BMW as “Unbelievable”. The pictures don’t lie, it’s the “Needs a paint job” claim that makes us wary. It does, indeed need a paint-job, in addition to several thousand dollars worth of body work. e9 BMWs (2800s, 3.0CSs and CSLs) are Teutonic Sirens: gorgeous to look at, relatively simple…
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Hoonivision: 11 Minutes of Alpine A110 Racing is Time Well Spent
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For some inexplicable reason, seeing a horribly modified, bewinged Accord coupe out my window reminded me of its automotive polar opposite: the tasteful, classic, and dangerously fast Alpine A110. Make the jump to watch a couple of videos of the A110 in action.
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Lotus 23B Gets its Rev On
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If you’re a fan of Jim Clark, as well as David and Goliath stories, then you’re probably familiar with the Lotus 23 sports racer. You may, however, have not been fortunate enough to hear what one sounds like. . .
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From Our Tabs to Yours: Friday Afternoon Linkage
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As we’ve said before, this site was born as an outlet for all the car window-shopping and BS-ing that we were already spending too much time doing. Turns out it still takes a few minutes to put together a post, but it only takes seconds to open a dozen craigslist or eBay ads. Particularly if…
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Rare Sterling 827 SLi Hatch is a Tempting Anglo-Japanese Grab Bag of Win, Horror
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Let’s say you want a mid-size, V6-powered 5-door hatchback with a manual transmission, but first-gen Mazda 6 prices have got you down because your budget constraints are lower. Like, picking through other peoples trash for recyclable items flipping ground beef patties lower. What’s a hoon to do? Move to Europe – where 5-doors and wagons…
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New RSS Feed Address and Workarounds to the Missing Pictures Thing
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In the seven-ish months we’ve been around, we managed to outgrow one hosting provider and we’re on the brink of busting the seams on our current setup. For this, we have our awesome (and ever-expanding) writing staff to thank, as well as you, the loyal users. We got into this for the cars, not the…
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Oh the Wares in this House!
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Friend of Hooniverse MikeTheDog, who is in fact not a dog at all despite the confusing facial scruff, recently attended an automotive get-together at a Ypsilanti warehouse. It turned out not to be a collection of modded Z’s, BMWs with aftermarket wheels, and MkV Golfs with rusted hoods. No…this was a show.
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Found on Craigslist: Geomino. Slight tornado damage
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Every time I look at this is makes me giggle. I am still undecided on whether is awesome or awful. There are very few cars out there that walk that line. On the one hand, the guy obviously took a lot of time to create a -mino out of a Prizm…
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Great Moments in Roadside Billboard Advertising
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Seriously McDonalds, you want people to order an ogre-load? Image source: [Imgur.com]