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Ten Years Later: Lots of cars and major life changes
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Ten years is a lot of time. More than a third of my life. Back when Hooniverse was founded, I entered my first semester in college. Ten years later I’m not just a different car person, but a different person entirely. 2009. A post-it note on my cork board has,” Live Life to the Fullest”…
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Ten Years Later: From carefree to a car seat
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Tim and I liked sending each other random listings we found on Craigslist. We met, virtually initially, by way of both commenting silly shit on Jalopnik posts. We became friends and we decided to start a blog. The real genesis for starting Hooniverse was a general unhappiness for the way (then) Jalopnik was being run.…
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Hooniverse Asks: What have you done in the last ten years?
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The very first post on this site happened ten years ago to the day. Tim (AKA Mad_Science) opened us up with a discussion about what this place is. It’s changed. It’s evolved. People have come and gone, so have the cars. But our core is still in place. We just love cars, plain and simple.…
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The News for September 27th, 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, Nissan updates the Titan, Ford readies to print more money with the Expedition King Ranch, Mazda rotary news may be incoming, VW names a familiar face to COO of North…
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Hooniverse Asks: Best coffee mug for drivers?
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Morning coffee is extremely important to many of us. If you’re like 99.875% of population it’s likely that you grab it on the go and not savor it while overlooking a mountain range from your villa. But driving while drinking coffee presents many challenges. A good coffee mug should: Be big enough to hold the…
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How to make an old Ford F-100 fly
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Christopher Polvoorde is a young driver in the Lucas Oil Off-Road racing series. The 19-year-old runs in the Pro-Lite class. He won Rookie of the Year in 2017, has claimed 3rd place overall in 2018, and has just completed a perfect season in the Lucas Oil Midwest Short Course League. That means eight races and…
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Check out Jalopnik’s Goodwood Revival Gallery
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Jalopnik’s Kristen Lee attended the 2019 Goodwood Revival. While there she snapped off a ton of great pics. Jalopnik just posted them all, and if you’re into vintage machines being pushed to the limit then you’ll like what’s over there. From GT-40s and Cobras to E-Types and …Ogles? Kristen captured an abundance of wonderful shots.…
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This is what three years with a Porsche 911 SC looks like
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Kevin McCauley is a talented photographer based in Texas. Often, his subjects include all sorts of automobiles. And he makes them look good. He’s also quite skilled at making his own machines look rather lovely. For proof, look no further than Kevin’s fantastic Porsche 911 SC. McCauley chronicled his past three years with the 911.…
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Quick, cheap, easy mods are the best mods
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The base audio system in the current, fifth generation of the Toyota 4Runner is rather not great. I won’t call it bad because it’s not horrible but it’s not great. It’s just a basic set of speakers powered by a factory headunit. Some attention was paid to actual acoustics as speakers are located in each…
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Hooniverse Asks: What’s the magic range number for electric vehicles?
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I’d like my wife to consider an electric vehicle. Her obvious objections are related to range and charging times. Those are the major hurdles for most anyone considering an EV at this point. Especially since there are great options at most ends of the pricing spectrum. For me personally, I’d be ok with an EV…
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Last Call: Brick vs. bricks edition
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Older Volvos have been labeled as bricks due to the fact that they just cannot be destroyed. Further proof of that is this 850 brick that took out a brick, concrete, and iron fence in Warsaw, Poland. Yes, for reasons I personally do not understand, the Polish people love their fences. While in U.S. we…
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The Chevy Colorado ZR2 Bison: Worth the extra dough?
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A 2020 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 with the V6 gasoline engine will cost you at least $44k. If you want the 2.8-liter turbodiesel four-cylinder version, you’re starting at just under $48k. That’s a lot of money for a truck, but it’s one that’s quite capable and good at playing in the spaces where the pavement has…
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Last Call: When you gotta go, you gotta go…
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Sometimes you just gotta and just cannot wait until the rest stop. It’s for people like you that our patrons of highways started randomly dropping porta-potties in the left lane of interstates. Bonus benefit is that or removed Priuses from the left lane and allows the rest of us to practice our mad auto-cross skills.…
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Resurrecting Project Integra GS-R
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I’ve had this car for about five years now, maybe longer. I bought out of nostalgia – I had a red ’94 Integra GS-R in college. I loved that car and I missed it. Like many other Integras, it was stolen from me, right from my home. It was an open void in my automotive…
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Hooniverse Asks: What’s the best car with the worst owner base?
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I don’t love posting Hooniverse Asks questions that aim for negative answers. But lately the Tesla crowd seems to be growing ever more defiant, and for all the wrong reasons. First let’s look at the cars and the company itself. Tesla is a game-changing automaker. Elon Musk forced the hand of the rest of the…
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The News for September 20th, 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, Porsche unveils a throwback Coca-Cola livery for Petit Le Mans, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus shows off latest rendering of 007 Hypercar, IMSA President Scott Atherton retires, Jessi Combs gets an exhibit…