Articles
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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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Practical Performance Car Features 27L V12 Tank Engine Powered Rover, We Suggest New Title
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One of these days we’ll do a tank-engined car showdown, and this Rover SD1 will be among the contenders. We could go on for a while, but PPC’s intro sums it up nicely: One day back in the 1990s a middle-aged man from a sleepy village in Lincolnshire decided that he’d start a new project…
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Last Call- As Individual as Those Who Drive it Edition
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All seventy one of them. Image source: [Flickr/leeproudfoot]
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Last Call – Honda Didn't Get The Memo Edition
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This is Honda’s new Odyssey Minivan show car set to debut at the Chicago Auto Show. Sadly, nobody told them we’re not doing Lambo doors any more. Image source: [BrickellHonda.com]
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Weirdest Thing You've Ever Watched Race?
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Bar stools, bathtug regattas, Formula 5000, it seems like, if you can strap a motor on it, somebody will race it. Have you has the pleasure of experiencing some odd oval action?
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Drunkenly Into Oblivion: The Hooniversal Polar Expedition
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Like so many other great ideas, this one was borne of a whole lot of alcohol. We were sitting in the Techie Lounge and watching the Top Gear Polar Special. After a few more drinks, someone scoffed at the goings-on in the saga, letting loose with the fatal words that have doomed many men before:…
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Hooniverse Editorial: The Standard of the World and How to Reinvent Cadillac – Part 4
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In my final part of this series, we explore the Cadillac Sixteen Concept from 2003, and see how Cadillac blew the chance to compete with the worlds ultra-rich car segment.
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What is it About an Orange Chevy?
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Looking at my current choices in classics, you’d have me pegged as a Ford Guy. Untrue, it’s just that the window of opportunity (in the form of a driveway space) for bow-tie ownership has yet to arrive. When it does, a mid-60s Chevelle is at the top of the purchase list. While it’s widely known…
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It's Snowmowagon!
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Do you live in the extreme north and regularly find yourself snowed-in with an extreme case of cabin fever. Have a little RWD car that just doesn’t get around good in the snow? Hooniverse has the solution!
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Showdown: Vannin'
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If there’s one trend that Hoons the world over mourn, it’s the penchant for extraordinarily hairy men to gut a shorty van and fill it full of shag carpet, teardrop windows, and sci-fi murals. Unlike that terrible swing dancing trend that nauseated the country for several years in the ‘90s, we think that shag vans…
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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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The Perfect Shop Truck
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We have a bit of a weakness here for forward-control or cab-over pickups. The Corvair, Dodge and Econoline cab-overs are fantastic, and I’ve always had a soft spot for the Volkswagen Transporter pickups, even though they’re not exactly forward control anymore. But they used to be! That counts, right?
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Therapy, Jeremy Clarkson Style
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[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8917730350468263249#[/googlevideo] Having a rough morning? Need a bit of motivation to get moving? Need a little bit of cheering up? Does someone have a case of the Mondays? Yes, well all of that nonsense will get better with a little help from Jeremy Clarkson. I’m sure some of you fanatics have seen this before, but…
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Hooniverse Asks – What's the Best Hoon's Station Wagon?
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Whether it’s because we grew up with them, or that we just like the combination of utility and hoonability that the platform affords, but station wagons hold a special place in the hearts of many a hoon. You may be jonesing for a big, old American sled that oozes down the road and gives you…
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Vans and the Places They Were By Joe Stevens
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Apparently we’re on a bit of a van kick. Let’s keep it a-rockin’. Having spent a decent portion of the 90s in a gray-on-gray (-on-gray) Ford Club Wagon, this particular Hoon laments the near extinction of the full-size van as a common family hauler. It’s like one day we woke up and wondered…where’d all the…
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Yet another FC150, courtesy of BaT
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I cannot lie, the first two articles about these scary awesome forward control 4x4s had me enthralled as I had never seen nor heard of one. There is just something about them that makes me want to throw on some boots and a heavy flannel jacket, toss my chainsaw in the back and disappear into the…