Articles
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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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You Don't Need an Avatar to Have Fun in 3D
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If there’s one thing I love more than hovercraft, it’s ground-effect aircraft. Why not have both? Shockingly, this crossover contraption is not from Russia, the motherland of strange transportation solutions to questions only a Soviet bureaucrat could have asked (ekranoplan anyone?), it’s from New Zealand. And you thought they were just good for comedic musical…
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At the Intersection of Awesome and Buick: Ecurie Ecosse's Tojeiro-Buick
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“It was the first occasion I realised just how good Jackie Stewart was. On our first lap he accelerated hard out of the last corner on to the main straight and the Tojeiro was hitting close on 140 mph when we hit the bump which was right on the start and finish line. There was…
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Spot the Difference: Honda's Impossible Dream ad, redux
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I think I’ve come to a certain stage in my life, where I’m man enough to admit that the original “Impossible Dream” (Youtube link) commercial by Honda brings a tear to my eye every time I watch it. (Also, I’ve never seen Titanic.) An inspiring song (the aptly-named “Impossible Dream” by legendary crooner Andy Williams)…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: See what you missed during the first Weekend in May!
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Do I have to keep reminding you that Hooniverse now has weekend content? Take a look at what you missed, and make sure you’re around next weekend.
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Craigslister Fail – Don't Bother With the Pictures, Doofus.
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Is there some Craiglist keyword spam tool that I don’t know about? If not, it’s obvious why this goober neglected to mention the most important piece of information regarding his car – the make and model – because it must have taken him a week to compile the spam list. Based on the 393, I’m…
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Patchwork Beetle: your grandmother is jealous
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Maybe your grandmother had a VW Beetle similar to this one. Chances are, she didn’t wrap it in vintage fabrics from the Middle East, show it off at Milan Design Week and auction it off for charity towards the Haiti earthquake. Bokja Design did, however, and with surprisingly charming results. Though I can’t imagine what…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's The Best Hood Ornament?
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They originally served a vital function, acting as cap, and sometimes sight glass for your car’s radiator- important in an age before ethyl glycol became a common cooling system additive. But as cars evolved less of a need to blow off steam, and radiators shrunk back behind expressive grilles, so too did the hood-mounted mascots…
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Can I Haz Police Car Riding?
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Falcons are predatory birds, eating small mammals and other birds, and it looks like their Ford namesakes’ are equally untrustworthy around small animals.