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  • Photo Friday Fun – Round 2

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    A BMW M3 GT2 caught lifting the wheels mid-turn. [Found on SpeedHunters.com]

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  • Ready for some Photo Phriday Phun?

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    Over the course of the next however-the-hell-I-feel-like-it minutes, I will post random awesomeness from around the tubes. It is Friday and you all want to get your weekend started properly… so here we go: The photo is titled ZondAss and was taken by Dennis Noten. [Found on TheAutoInsider’s Blog]

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  • Looking for a Quality Used Crown Vic P71? QualityCopCars.com is Your Place

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    I was helping out a friend browse for a roomy, safe car on the cheap; meaning I was cruising craigslist for P71s. This led to a listing from qualitycopcars.com, basically warning as to the dangers of going really cheap with one’s selection. The dude running the outfit sifts through the assorted surplus sales and picks…

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  • Your Tax Dollars at Work

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    In the eternal struggle between the city’s road crew and green-space crew, the next move belonged to the gardeners. Image source: [thereifixedit.com]

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  • Hunter S. Thompson And The Song Of The Sausage Creature

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    It’s just as important to keep close tabs on the past of the automotive fringe as it is to chase the new limit of strange. Nobody set up camp more firmly on the borderlands of vehicular oddity than our beloved Hunter S. Thompson. We bring you his “Song Of The Sausage Creature”, uncut in full…

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  • 3…2…1…Liftoff!

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    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9fWDtZ3esA[/youtube] Across the Intertubewebs, this fellow’s endeavor’s being labeled as a failure (FAIL, as they say). We say nonsense. When your airbag + tire + car seat adventure gets you 10 feet in the air it’s all win, regardless of how you come down. As far as we’re concerned, it deserves a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner.…

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  • Pinto Cruising Wagon? Hell Yes! Can Someone Spot Me $3500?

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    Dear lord, could you pack any more style, finesse, panache, into a single package? Who wants to cruise for a run-in with law enforcement near an elementary school chicks?

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  • Hooniverse Parting Shot: The Saturn Division; How GM Lost the Recipe for Success.

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    With the loss of the EV-1 Electric Car, and with an aging platform in the form of the “S” Sedan, Coupe and Wagon, GM started tinkering with the Saturn Division by offering additional models, without really understanding the Saturn Customer.

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  • Hooniverse Asks- If You Could Run Any Car Company, Which One Would It Be, And What Would You Change?

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    Let’s say you’re walking done the beach, and you come across an old oil lamp. Picking it up, you rub the side to clear away the grime and seaweed and out puts a genie who awards you for freeing him from the lamp with one wish (it used to be three, but times are tough),…

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  • I Love California Vanity Plates

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    I love guessing what vanity plates say. It is even more fun in California where plates are allowed to have certain symbols. I once saw a plate that had a symbol of a hand then read LMYBIZ…Handle My Biz. Today after dropping my wife off at work I came upon a new(ish) BMW wagon. A…

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  • You Buy, I'll Fly- Hope This Was Before He Dragged Home Captain Morgan

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    Cop Chases Truck Dragging Stolen Soda Machine – Watch more Funny Videos The only thing missing is sheriff John Bunnel, with his impossibly white teeth, singing the Coke song- I’d like to steal a machine full of coke To keep me company And drag it sparking behind my car While the pursuing cops video me…

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  • Hooniverse Editorial: Carflation, or The Ongoing Bloat of Once-Small Vehicles.

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    Have you ever noticed that the car model you owned in the past has grown in size, in weight, and in displacement? This phenomenon affects almost every car line from BMW to Honda, with a few exceptions.

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  • Hooniverse Parting Shot: The Saturn Division; GM's Hope for the Future.

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    What started out as a division with a cult-like following ended up another irrelevant brand within the GM hierarchy. This is the story of how GM fumbled a golden opportunity to reinvent itself over the last 20+ years.

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  • Quick Reminder – HCOTY Polls Close at Noon

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    That would be noon where I am. As in about 2.5 hours from now. As of right now, it looks like The Beast has opened up a bit of a lead over the Basement Lambo, but maybe the Lutz has an army of haxx0rs waiting in the wings, ready to bombard our servers with G8…

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  • Ferrari Dealership Proves Douchebag Ferraristi Stereotype

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    The Edmonton Motor Show was this weekend. While it is difficult to truly express how thrilling it was to walk through a giant auditorium that seemed to be little more than a used car lot filled with 5,000 people, there were, at least, a few highlights.

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  • Well Blow Me Down

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    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0qeYd5gcnQ[/youtube] After this morning’s discourse of turbos vs. blowers (actually, only roots-style superchargers are blowers) I remembered this video from a few years back. If you haven’t seen it, it’s pretty fun, especially when the wheelie bars FAIL. Sadly, they don’t show the big blower running, but the images look like something out of an…

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