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Hot Wheels Legends Virtual Car Show Winner
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Living in the COVID era means we enthusiasts have to be a bit more clever when it comes to get-togethers. With things just starting to open back up, we may still be a way out from attending the local Cars and Coffee. Hot Wheels looked to solve that by partnering with Hoonigan to host a…
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Last Call: Where the Hellcats roam freely
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Spotting a Hellcat in the wild isn’t easy. They’re fast but they also blend fairly easily with the non-Hellcat creatures. Thankfully, at the Sandy Point State Reservation on Plum Island, in Massachusetts, there is a Hellcat sanctuary. I went there in hopes of spotting these powerful creatures but sadly, I didn’t see any. Perhaps they’re…
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Last Call: Will the Mk5 Toyota Supra be glorified the same way as the Mk4?
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I know a lot of people aren’t a fan of the Mk5 for various reasons. Some just don’t like the look, others don’t like the fact that it’s a BMW Z4 in JDM clothing. For me, I think it’s fine, we’ve seen the BMW engine prove to be decently versatile and I think the car…
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Watch this modded Nissan 350Z lose a race to a modded Mercedes-Benz E55… pulling a trailer
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This video dates back to 2014, but I’ve only just seen it today thanks to a post over on Jalopnik. It’s a funny spot of entertainment to brighten your quarantined Friday afternoon. A Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG sedan takes on a Nissan 350Z on an empty stretch of Florida road. The backstory here is that the…
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What’s your automotive news for the week?
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Nothing particularly fun or exciting happened this week that I feel is worth reporting on. The whole week can be summed up as such: an idolized man child threatened to move his car company to another state because he couldn’t reopen a factory one week sooner than he wanted to and the outlook for other…
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Lamest Classics: Extreme exclusivity with the Hyundai Scoupe
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Holy moly, it’s already almost June and I haven’t even touched Korean cars yet. What a weird time this was for Korean imports. By 1995, Japanese cars had become well established as reliable (and perhaps antiseptic) alternatives to the Big Three American manufacturers. But it was a battle fought over decades, where the Japanese gained…
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Hooniverse Asks: Slow car, fast… is it actually fun?
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I’m going to answer this question right off the bat, at least from my perspective. Yes. It is indeed fun to take a slow car and drive it quickly. Every rental car ever is proof positive of this notion. But backing it away from tortured Hertz fleet machines, let’s refocus on non-rental spec rides. One…
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Last Call: Owning a Lamborghini tractor is a massive flex
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Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear/The Grand Tour has just bought a Lamborghini tractor and I can’t imagine a bigger flex than this. You’ll sound incredibly snobby when you say “yeah I bought a Lambo from before they were cool,” but it is true. Combine that with the fact that he paid $50k for it and…
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Cadillac CT6 Platinum: The Blackwing is gone too soon
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Blackwing is one of the coolest names in the automotive world. And on the Cadillac CT6, specifically, it’s already dead. Cadillac spent millions developing a brand-specific engine in the Blackwing. And then decided to kick it to the curb. That’s a shame because the 4.2-liter twin-turbocharged V8 is pretty damn intriguing. Is it perfect? No.…
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Off The Road Again: Episode 18 – Zack Klapman, Morocco & King of the Hammers
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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. Chris & Ross welcome Zack Klapman to the show to discuss his many trips off-roading in Iceland, Morocco, Washington, & Utah.…
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Hooniverse Asks: What’s your favorite truck?
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Remember the Lil Red Express? It was a blip on the radar, production-wise, but it remains one of the coolest trucks ever produced. A 360 cubic-inch V8 mounted under the hood fed a pair of smoke-stack style exhaust pipes and meaty rear tires. The Lil Red Express also employed the cam from a 340, a…
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Last Call: You can get butterfly doors for your C8 now
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Now that the C8 Corvette looks like an exotic, it needs one more thing to complete the look, butterfly doors. Eikon Motorsports will happily do it for you for $4,300 which I don’t think is the worst deal in the world. Now if you de badge the whole thing people would probably guess its a…
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This customized 4Runner can be your urban assault bro rig
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At first glace, you have seen this before. It’s just another heavy duty truck modified for armored SWAT duty. Then you notice the paint and it appears that this is just another heavy duty truck modified for armored SWAT duty, that’s been further modified for armored luxury lifestyle. Every issue of duPont Registry is filled…
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Flex matters: The 2020 Jeep Gladiator Mojave hits Dan Edmunds’ RTI ramp
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Everyone on the Internet loves to flex these days. Most of that doesn’t matter of course, but there is a type of flexing that I think you’ll be interested in hearing more about. It’s how a vehicle can flex and climb a special home-built ramp to determine its RTI (Ramp Travel Index) as devised by automotive…
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Last Call: The truest statement about Jeep drivers
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I’m pretty sure every time I’ve seen someone park on top of the curb as an intentional flex it’s been a Jeep. The times where it’s just one wheel is clearly an accident and that’s when it’s usually an F-150 or something. Little do these drivers know, we aren’t actually impressed by their parking. In…
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Watch this insane racing quad with active aero and superbike power
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It’s dubbed the SuperQuad, and the name is accurate. Although I’d also accept Insane-O-Machine or Batshit Bomber. This four-wheeled monster was once a Suzuki LT500R, but it’s now so much more. Every bit of it has been reworked and its original two-stroke motor was ditched in favor of the 1,000-cc engine from a GSX-R. That…