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  • Diwheels Rock. Literally.

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    Diwheels are just about the rarest and strangest vehicles around (or usually, not around). Amazingly enough, a friend of mine owns a real, functional, motorized diwheel. No…really! “Ezekiel’s Wheel,” which appears above, was built by some backwoods Ozark engineer a few years back, and uses a small industrial engine for power.

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  • Unloved Lambos- The Curse of the Diablo

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    Most Lamborghinis are sought-after commodities, especially the V12-powered cars. 350GT, 400, Muira, Espada and the Countach have all become collector cars. And the Murciélago remains the venerated top of the Lambo model line. But you may have noticed one name missing from the panoply of twelves from the bull brand- that being the Diablo. Developed…

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  • Welcome to Dime Month at Hooniverse!

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    It comes but once every hundred years and this month shall go down in history as the first Dime month ever.  It’s the 5th month of the 10th year of the new century and we can think of no better way to celebrate 5/10 than to show our love for the mighty little Datsun 510! 

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  • Ten Objective Things You Can Do To Stay Alive On Your Motorcycle

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    Riding a motorcycle may be one of life’s most fun and rewarding activities, but it’s also dangerous. So, if you’re going to ride, it would be smart to try to be as safe as as possible. So, here are ten things proven to help make motorcycles safer.

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  • Hooniverse Asks- What're Your Minimum Requirements for a Daily Driver?

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    While we may all have dream cars, the cars we actually drive on a daily basis need to provide a modicum of functionality and driving efficiency. That being said, we all make adjustments regarding what we are wiling to put up with, but there’s just some things we either can’t live with, or can’t do…

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  • Burnout Fail Neon Will Never Say "Hi!" Again

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    If you watch this and find yourself unintentionally wincing after the money shot, just remember that the only good Neon is a dead Neon. Or an SRT-4. Ebaum’s World

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  • Showdown: $10k Wagon Battle

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    It’s long been the mission statement of Hooniverse to act as the online equivalent of standing around in the driveway, BSing about cars. As is often the case, things boil down to a showdown between two vehicles. Mustang Vs Camaro, Lancia Delta Integrale Vs WRX, Porsche 917 Vs Ford GT40. Rather than set things up…

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  • Cast Your Vote For Hooniversal Car of the Year – Because the Decade Doesn't Start Until We Say So

    Cast Your Vote For Hooniversal Car of the Year – Because the Decade Doesn't Start Until We Say So

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    In our typical making-it-up-as-we-go fashion, we kinda kicked off the whole Hooniversal Car of the Year on a whim and never decided who’d wrap it all up. I just checked the post queue, and it appears no one else is, so here we go. Jump!

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  • Last Call- These Are a Few of My Favorite Things Edition

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    I would like to get bacon via email, but unfortunately all I get is spam. Image source:[Imgur.com]

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  • Hooniverse Asks- What's the Weirdest Thing You've Ever Driven?

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    There’s a lot of weird stuff out there. There are cars which are the personal expression of someone’s warped psyche, and there are some that, for some reason, managed to slip through the machinations of the corporate approval process only to be met with a collective WTF? by the buying public. Have you managed to slip behind…

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  • The Top Ten Reasons Why Pontiac Failed; Part 2

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    Yesterday, I started this series with the bottom 4 reasons why I thought Pontiac Failed that included Badge Engineering, The Fiero and Solstice sports cars, Plastic Body Side Cladding, and the badly designed “Updates” to the last Bonneville and Grand Prix models. Today, lets take a look at numbers 6 through 2, and see if…

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  • Taiwan Landslide Buries Cab, The Meter's Running on Reaching the Driver

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    The Daily Mail is reporting that a mysteriously triggered landslide has covered a 900-foot section of highway near Keelung Taiwan. Two cars were reported buried under the slide, and one, a taxi cab, had been under GPS tracking at the time. The GPS signal was lost when the cab was apparently buried, and now over…

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  • Just About Perfect: Supercharged e34 M5 Touring

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    As the owner of two grey station wagons, I can attest to the near-invisibility to law enforcement of the wagon form factor. That’s a good thing, because we suspect that the 377hp supercharged 3.8L engine in this M5 Touring is capable of impressively illegal acts all day every day on the weekends and plenty of…

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  • Last Call- Yo Dawg, SPOILER AHEAD Edition

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    Damn, dawg, I was going to see that. Image source: [yodawgpics.com]

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  • More May, Mutts and MOPARs

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    Well, Hoons, after a productive day at work, yeah it’s that way when I am out of the office and away from these tubes, this olelongrooffan is back to finish up my Sunday out at the Halifax MOPAR Club’s show.

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  • One-Up The UberBird with this Stick-shift 735i

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    Never has a car so begged for LeMonization. Sure, the extra size might put you at a little disadvantage over the more nimble e30s and Sentras on track, but we need to remember: this is an endurance race; driver comfort is paramount. When it comes to comfort, nothing delivers like a 7-series. Just look at…

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