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Hooniverse Asks: What is your dream car that you know you have no chance of owning?
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I would drive it. No, I would not rub it with a diaper. The Ferrari 250 GT California is a car itching to run, run run, run run, past the big city downtown. It’s a gorgeous, glorious creation, and it’s the car that got me into cars. I did not have a father turning wrenches…
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Last Call: TE37’s work on anything
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Despite the fact that Volk Racing TE37s are so common these days, I never get tired of seeing them. It’s a great looking wheel that works on just about any car. @Freshhkiicks instantly comes to mind when I talk about the wheel because he puts them on just about every car he owns from the…
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2021 Chevrolet Suburban High Country – First Drive
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The 2021 Chevrolet Suburban is the latest version of a vehicle that’s been around for an amazing 85 years now. This one has all-new chassis bits, more room on the inside, and a fresh top-tier trim called the High Country. And that’s the one we’re driving today, which is good because it’s the one that…
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Hooniverse Asks: …So what the hell is this?
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About a year and a half ago, I was driving down California’s famed Pacific Coast Highway. Stopped at a red light, I had a chance to look around and take in my surroundings when I noticed a used car lot. Naturally, I took a cursory glance at their inventory. And that’s when I noticed this…
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Last Call: The only way to go camping
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If there were a competition for the most badass way to go camping this guy would win it by a country mile. Chris Cut is the owner of this NSX and spends his time traveling from spot to spot with the attachable camper. As if camping in an NSX didn’t already turn people’s heads, the…
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Selling a car on Bring-a-Trailer, part 5 – a letter to the buyer
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About two years ago I was buying house. As my wife and I were preparing our offer we learned that there was another party interested in the property. It was a commercial buyer who was looking to renovate it and flip it. Our agent suggested that we write a letter to buyer to go along…
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The Pagani Zonda Revolución is the most ridiculous supercar ever produced
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In 1999, Pagani unveiled their first supercar: the Zonda. Powered by a 395-horsepower six-liter Mercedes V12, it was the first car to truly give Ferrari and Lamborghini a run for their money. It looked cool, sounded incredible, and drove wonderfully. The Zonda was so successful, in fact, that Pagani decided to update it in 2002,…
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2020 Toyota Camry TRD – It’s… kinda cool?
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I’ll start with the obvious, “cool” is a relative term. I may not even be qualified to label something cool, likely not. But the more I stared at the 2002 Toyota Camry TRD, the more I started to think it might just be cool. It definitely came closer than any other pedestrian commuter car to…
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The Mercedes E-Class: Lame Goodness
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There’s something to be said for publishing in print. When you’re faced with limited space, you have to make tough decisions about the most important information to include. But when a bunch of old-Benz fanatics banatics band together in the boundless expanse of Wikipedia, they birth a page where each pedant can show off every…
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Spot of the century? 2009 Mercedes-Benz SLR Stirling Moss
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Occasionally you come across something truly extraordinary on social media. This morning I rubbed my eyes and squinted at my iPhone and said aloud “wait what, no way”. My local cool car spotting Facebook group features posts of all sorts of interesting vehicles that pop up around DC, MD, and VA. It’s an eclectic mix…
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Does anyone truly need a Chevy Suburban? No, but that’s not the point
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Earlier, our beloved [Editor’s Note: hmm…] Jeff Glucker posed a question: who needs a Chevy Suburban? This question was not intended to rhetorically imply that the answer is “nobody,” but rather to start an honest discussion about the necessity of a vehicle the size of, well, a suburb. Here, I will provide my take on Jeff’s…
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The News for August 7th, 2020
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. This week: Gordon Murray debuts the true McLaren F1 successor with a modern engineering marvel and I write a lot of words about it, Mazda gives some additional info on the Mazda3 2.5…
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Hooniverse Asks: What car should be the next Knight Rider?
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For many of us car guys/girls we grew up with Knight Rider in the 80’s it was one of the best car shows on TV. Michael Knight and his sidekick pal KITT the Knight Industries Two Thousand, the highly modified and tech-filled Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. The two were always out to help those in…
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Last Call: Now THIS is a race car
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I’m sure many of you have heard about the Gordon Murray Automotive T.50 by now. If you haven’t, it’s a modern take on the McLaren F1 that featured the iconic middle driving position. On top of being absolutely stunning, it even has a six-speed manual and a naturally aspirated V12. I can only imagine the…
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Off The Road Again Podcast: QuietKat, Jeep eBike, & Ryan Spinks – Episode 29
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Welcome back to the Off the Road Again podcast! We’ve missed you. The focus is on the off-road adventure but we also dabble in all things SUV and truck, maybe even some rally cars. Ross & Chris welcome Ryan Spinks from QuietKat to the show. Ryan & QuietKat have been developing an eBike with Jeep. Ryan also runs a couple…
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Ford Bronco tested on Rubicon Trail and performs how it’s supposed to
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I hate the term “clickbait”. Any well-written headline is designed to pull you into a story with a desire to read more. If that story then doesn’t deliver upon the promise of the headline, you have a problem. But if the story and headline are both good, you’ve still been baited into clicking on it.…