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Last Call: This fan-made Tesla ad is seriously impressive
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Tesla doesn’t really do advertising, they rely on word of mouth. Which honestly makes it even more impressive to see how big they’ve become doing just that. However, @BillyCrammer has just made one for Tesla anyways and it’s really good. You can tell that many of the clips are taken from Tesla directly, but the…
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Kia Niro EV: A peek at our enthusiast future?
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This article is less about what is, and more about what could be. I’ve been driving this Kia Niro EV for the last week and something occurred to me, it’s pretty damn quick! Most mags estimate the 0-60 time in the mid six second range with the 1/4 mile passing in the mid 15s. That…
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Antisocial Distancing with the 2020 Jeep Gladiator Rubicon
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March 21st, 2020: The kids are restless. They’d just completed their first week of state-enforced homeschooling and were not looking forward to what was then projected to be 2 more weeks. My wife had similarly spent her first week of working from home. I brought my office equipment home that weekend, as I needed to…
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This Appears to be the new 2 Series Coupe
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BMW put out the first 2 Series in 2014, and it’s one of the best — if not the best — compact luxury chassis out there. The M2 and M2 Competition are some of the best driving, front-engined cars for sale today. The only issue is BMW’s consistent six-year production cycles. That means we’re up…
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Watch the Ferarri F430’s Designer Walk You Through Designing the Legendary Supercar
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I’m an Industrial design major, and I’ve designed a few cars before. They’re pretty good, but I cannot sketch out cars with anywhere near the ease of somebody like Frank Stephenson. Considering he’s one of the most talented automotive designers out there today, I shouldn’t even have to say that. Stephenson has designed several popular…
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Review: 2020 Honda Civic Si sedan – updated, it’s the best Si ever
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I spend way too much time in the 1990s around sporty Hondas. Then, at the end of that decade things have changed at Honda, and not for the better. Enthusiasts like me were dropped in favor of lower production costs and mass marketing. It has been twenty years but I am happy to report that…
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Last Call: Have you ever seen a car tear an ACL?
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I hate to laugh at the expense of other people’s misfortune, but this is pretty funny. The caption was funny and the replies were, honestly, even funnier. These kinds of videos always make me wonder what happened after. Was the owner pissed or did he find it funny because it was caught on video? I’m…
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This Pontiac Grand Prix Limo is ready for the Track
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A lot of strange cars get turned into Limousines, but none of them claim to be racecars, as far as I know. That observation excludes Richard Hammond’s sport limousine, of course. That car isn’t for sale, though. This one is. Another day of browsing for cheap Pontiacs on Autotrader, another diamond in the rough. This…
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Top Gear must be good again if they got a Mclaren Speedtail to race an F35
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Rarely does a series ever have so-called ‘blunder years’ after its 22nd season, but that happened to Top Gear after the classic May, Hammond, and Clarkson trio packed up and moved to Amazon. For a few seasons it seemed like Top Gear had lost it’s way. Hosts came and gone, and nothing seemed to be…
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Acura let two of its race car drivers swap rides and the result was interesting
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It’s cool when race car drivers get into the same cars to test out their skills head-to-head. Remember when Michael Schumacher lost to NASCAR driver Carl Edwards at the ROC? That was a prideful moment for us Americans. What’s even more interesting is when two race car drivers get in each other’s cars. We get…
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Go back in time with a MotorWeek review of the new 1989 Mitsubishi Montero
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I know how my Mitsubishi Montero drives today. It’s a vehicle with probably 300,000 miles on its chassis, a rebuilt engine, and plenty of creaks and groans. What was it like when it was brand new though? I don’t have to wonder because MotorWeek can answer my question. This is a review of the then-new…
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Multi-talented versatility and the early Subaru Forester
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Most cars are fairly one-dimensional. They have a single, focused purpose. Cars are, generally, designed to be good at one thing and one thing alone. A good track-focused car isn’t much good at anything else. A good off-road vehicle is similarly purposed. It’s rare that a vehicle can handle both, but an easier point of…
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Last Call: Is Ford’s new EV Mustang the start of a new rivalry?
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I don’t know how to feel about EV drag racing. Generally, when I see a Tesla P100d beat some Ferrari I’m not all that impressed. I guess it almost seems like cheating? But two high horsepower (should we switch to Gigawatts, Marty?) EVs, and I’m intrigued. Ford has recently teased its own entry and it…
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Racing is still cancelled, so come watch us run the iRacing 24 Hours Nürburgring
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One of the most grueling virtual endurance races of the year is upon us. The iRacing 24 Hours Nürburgring is an all out war of attrition between four classes on the most demanding circuit on the service. We’ll be entering the race this Saturday with two cars from TURN Racing Sim Tools eSport. The action…
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Royal Enfield focuses on Flat Track with its Build Train Race program
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Royal Enfield wants to go racing. And it’s going to get dirty doing it. Because Royal Enfield is heading to the loose-surface world of Flat Track. A new program called Build Train Race will bring four wonderful women along for the journey. This is a four-phase program that starts with bikes being designed and built.…
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The News for April 24th, 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 (or whatever wasn’t impacted by the coronavirus) without the fluff or bull. This week: Ford builds the first real electric Mustang and it’s going drag racing, Lotus is reportedly building a more accessible volume sports car, Porsche…