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Lightning Lap: America's Nurburgring Battle
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Home to manufacturers’ test mules, wanna-be racers, and Sabine Schmitz; der Nürburgring has also become the fantasy proving grounds where bench racers all across the internet refer to determine which car is t3h best!!1. But the boys at Car und Driver think America needs its own yardstick. So, for four years in a row now, they’ve brought…
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HCOTY Nominee: Sebastian's '79 Hurst/Olds
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Hooniversal Car of the Year Nominee: Sebastian’s 1979 Hurst/Olds Cutlass Calais Nominated By Mad_Science As seen in: What Malaise? 6.6L Hurst/Olds and a followup, here. We’ll get it out of the way ahead of time: this 1979 Hurst/Olds isn’t the best car nominated. It’s not even that great of a car in the first place:…
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Automotive Traveler: Chrysler Italianate Diversions, Part 5: Alfa Romeo 164
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This is the last part of this series that was first run in Automotive Traveler. However, it was a follow-up posting that was penned by the editor in chief, Richard Truesdell. Since he was more familiar with the subject than I was, it was a natural fit to end the series. It also tied in…
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Last Call- Between a Croc and a Hard Place Edition
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Even though it took many years, the alligators continued to write to their congressman, and eventually they got their wish, as a sign was erected alerting passersby to the dangers of that section of road. As a happy coincidence, the gators also never went hungry again. Image source: [telegraph.co.uk]
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HCOTY Nominee: 'The Beast' Ford Falcon Coupe
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The essence of the Hooniverse community is our unrepentant love of cars. We’re passionate about anything automotive; we are the misfit gearheads, the slightly obsessed, the fanatical. Our adoration of our respective automobiles transcends rationality. Frequently we find ourselves trapped in the situation where we are trying to explain our love for our chosen steed,…
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This R8 5.2 FSI Video Review Brings the Funny
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Let’s get one thing straight – here at Hooniverse, we love us some weirdly-mustachioed LA nut job Lieberman. His reviews are honest and well written and they are usually filled with fantastic visual accompaniment thanks to Drew Phillips. On top of that, he is genuinely a good guy – provided you are not at a…
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Accidental Hoons- Prophetic Restaurant Name Presages Crash
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Seattle’s Joe Maador Navarro could have chosen any business to crash into on his drunken adventure last night- the discounter with “low-low-prices!” announced in the display window, or Ground Floor coffee shop. But instead, he chose the Hung Far Low Restaurant. The 12:45 AM crash resulted in Navarro not being injured, but arrested for drunk…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Was The Worst COTY Winner Ever?
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Motor Trend has been doing it for decades, the Europeans typically give it to something small and odd that we’ve never even seen over here. Hooniverse is doing it differently, and we think better. Of course, much like buying a sex doll, the reality doesn’t match the anticipation and buyers remorse sets in. That being…
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Optical Illusions- This Way In
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The hot technology these days is augmented reality- where digital info is overlain on a smartphone screen to provide an enhanced experience. This parking garage in Melbourne Australia gives you the same thing for only the hourly parking rate. Image source [hemmy.net]
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HCOTY Nominee: Steve Darnell's 1929 Dodge Diesel Rod!
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HCOTY Nominee: Steve Darnell’s Dodge Diesel Rat Rod, making it’s debut at SEMA this year. Nominated by: UDMan As Seen in the Post: What’s That? You wanted to see the Diamond T’s Passenger. I thought this was the very definition of the type of Rat Rod that the readers here at Hooniverse would want to…
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Last Call- COTY Regrets
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This is why COTY awards are not such a good idea. Image source:[vintageoriginalads.com]
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HCOTY Nominee: The Ford Mustang
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HCOTY Nominee: The Ford Mustang – ‘64.5 – ’70, ‘78 – ’98, ’05- present Nominated by: Graverobber As Seen on drag strips, Dairy Queen parking lots, multiple covers of Fast Fords magazine, and, up until 2004, emerging from Ford’s historic Rouge River assembly plant. I’m not nominating a particular car that has been featured here on…
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We can't have nice things: French hot hatch edition
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My Christmas present to myself this year was Forza 3. Been playing it quite a bit lately, sampling the various cars from around the world. Let me tell you, the selection is quite extensive and most of the great automakers from around the world are well-represented. You want to race an SRT-8 Charger? They have…
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Hoonimatics Lesson: Jensen Interceptor III + 6.1L SRT8 HEMI = ?
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Who said mathematics was boring? We’ve got a formula here that’s going to surely get your attention – take a look after the jump.
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HCOTY Nominee: 1983 Land Rover One Ten
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HCOTY Nominee: 1983 Land Rover Defender 110 Nominated by: Braff As Seen in the Post: AutoTrader Find of the Week [Oct. 9 2009] Here at Hoon HQ, we love cars of all shapes and sizes… be they fast, slow, ugly, beautiful, big, small, short, long, rare, common, or a combination of all those things. Wait……
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Burn Baby Burn- Land Rover Fire Truck Will Wet Your Pants
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Typically, little boys express their future career hopes in manly advocations such as Astronaut, Football Quarterback– and most often, Fireman. Roaring Fork Land Rover (how great is that town’s name?) has a Land Rover Firefly, offered up for the fire sale price of only $14,995, that could let you fulfill that last job fantasy.