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Last Call: Lights? Where we’re going we need lights
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Long time reader and frequent commenter Sjalabais sent in today’s Last Call image. He quoted it as “Here is a 1990 Subaru Justy 1.2 AWD… ready to do ‘justyce’ do dark roads.” I’m not sure if the 1.2-liter engine even cranks out enough juice to power thee lights. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast…
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Celebrating the Audi TT
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The Audi TT has been with us for 20 years now. Let’s take a moment to celebrate it… before it goes away. The Audi TT RS is so good we had to give it another go Audi is prepping to kill off the TT as we know it. There are rumors that it should return…
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Spied: Jeep Gladiator with a raised hood – what the hell is this thing?
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In my normal internet travels of trying to keep up with all things Jeep, I stumbled upon something…interesting. The Jeep Gladiator was all-new for this model year. A full-length pickup owing most of its life to the Wrangler Unlimited, it’s exactly what you’d expect a Jeep pickup to be. True four-wheel-drive, a removable roof, and…
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Hooniverse Asks: How do you feel about the use of the Mustang name for a four-door EV?
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The new Ford EV is four-door hatch that’s slightly jacked-up. Like many in this class, it’s kind of a modern CUV thing but really a car, except it isn’t. Think Jaguar I-Pace or Audi E-Tron. Ford chose to call this vehicle Mustang Mach-E. Understandably many people have blown a gasket over the use of the…
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The News for November 15th, 2019
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. This week, Ferrari stuns with the jaw-dropping Roma, McLaren pays homage to 60s sports cars with roofless and windowless Elva supercar, Peugeot is coming back to the WEC with a “hypercar” entry,…
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Hooniverse Asks: Is there an automotive record you think you could break?
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There are all sorts of records in the automotive space. Speed records, track records, endurance records, and much more. Some are quite unbeatable. It’s highly unlikely you’ll set a land-speed record. You’re probably not going to break any track records. But maybe there are some records that you could achieve if you gave it a proper…
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Express your self with the 1990 Oldsmobile Expression Concept
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As the LA Auto Show approaches, this is the reminder that concept cars can be great. The best concepts make it to production. It’s even better if there are few to no changes between the concept and the production vehicle. The 1990 Oldsmobile Expression is a great concept car example. The concept debuted at the…
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Can’t afford a Defender? Buy this 4Runner instead.
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Being a kid who really came to understand cars in the 90s, I’ve never really liked the graphics packages from the decade. I’m not against graphics, but the Nickelodeon-styled “Splash” graphics on Ford Rangers didn’t do anything for me. Now, 80s Japanese SUV graphics are another matter altogether. They were never really over-the-top and generally…
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Learn About the History of Lane Markings with The History Guy
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Those white and yellow lane markings that we see every day are easily taken for granted. We’re taught what double yellow and dashed lines mean in driver’s ed and sometimes we even stay within them, but have you ever wondered how they came to be? It took a surprising amount of time for painted lane…
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We missed one hell of a “Barn Find” auction
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Let’s make this long story short. Somewhere in England or United Kingdom or Great Britain, some land property sold for redevelopment. On this property were warehouses. Those warehouses are full of cars. Apparently the old property owner did not care for those cars enough to move them. Or perhaps he or she (let’s be honest,…
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Like it’s 1991 again – 2020 Camry is available with AWD
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Not so big news today is the the 2020 Camry will be available with AWD for the first time since 1991 Camry All-Trac. That’s pretty cool because one of the reasons people migrated toward CUVs is the availability of all-wheel-drive, and availability of AWD on mid-sized sedans has been kind of limited. The interesting part…
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Hooniverse Asks: What’s the most far-fetched automotive marketing slogan of all time?
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On Sunday I was watching the Giants/Jets game and a commercial came on for Ford’s newest crossover. It started out with a pseudo space-theme, showcasing a near-sci-fi sequence of shots showing a man dressed in space attire. And then it turned into traditional commercial-isms, relating “space” to a car on sale today. But towards the…
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The News for November 8th, 2019
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. This week, the BMW M2 is all grown up with its own CS edition, Audi makes RWD a permanent option for the R8, Audi’s R8 face lift gets applied to the LMS…
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Classic Captions Contest: 2013 Mercedes-Benz E 300 BlueTec HYBRID Estate Edition
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It’s been way too long since the last time we had a classic captions contest. I have no idea who wrote it, what the car was, or who won it. Let’s move on. Classic Captions Contest is where we show you a classic advertising of a vehicle and you supply the best quote for it.…
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Hooniverse Asks: Anything catching your eye at SEMA so far?
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The aftermarket adventure that is SEMA is underway. There’s a ton of news, and it ranges from mild to far too wild. Somewhere in the middle is the entertaining and tasty meat. For example, that car in the photo above? It’s Dodge’s new Challenger Drag Pak. No you can’t drive it on the street and…
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Last Call: C8 Corvette’s True Origin and True Delays
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Today we learned that the production of the mid-engine, eighth generation Corvette has been bumped up to February. This is due to UAW’s strikes, because agreements with General Motors couldn’t be made. That’s too bad because we’re all anxious to drive this thing, which some of us still don’t believe exists. Since we can’t look…