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Hooniverse Asks: What’s your favorite type of driving experience?
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I haven’t driven my Mercedes-Benz in a bit. The Charge Indicator light that glowed as I leaned into the throttle foretold of an impending stranding by way of an empty battery. That issue is now fixed with a fresh alternator though, so I decided to drive the Benz while I ran some errands. I opted…
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Buy this incredible Jeep Wagoneer and be the coolest person on the trail
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These are high times for overlanding. Time and tine again we see incredibly well-built 4x4s coming across our screens, leaving us with off-roading daydreams. It’s a big time of proliferation for the off-road capable vehicles, and every day they come further and further towards the forefront of automotive culture. The increase in interest means that…
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Classic Moments in Rally: Tommi Mäkinen gets an important phone call
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One of the best Finnish motorsport clips doesn’t show any driving. I’m talking about the clip showing a taciturn Tommi Mäkinen receiving a surprise phone call at a British hotel lobby in late November, 1998. The 1998 Network Q Rally of Great Britain was the ’98 WRC season-ender, and Mäkinen was still battling for crucial…
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Peter Cunningham has the best Honda/Acura collection
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Peter Cunningham is the man behind RealTime Racing. This is a crew that has driven many a Honda or Acura race car to the title spot in a wide range of racing series. Cunningham himself did a lot of the driving. He racked up 43 Pirelli World Challenge wins. There’s at least 14 series Championship…
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Last Call: Who really built that car?
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People have been helping their children cheat at the Pinewood derby for eons. Usually though, the goal is to make it not so obvious. Kamil Kaluski helped put a car together and was dismayed with the rest of the competition. Well at least one member of the competition. https://twitter.com/CarGuyDad/status/1112842783256084481 Kamil is correct. It’s highly unlikely…
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Exclusive Spy Shots: 2020 Land Rover Defender!
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No, this isn’t that new Tesla Model Z that Musk has been musing about. This is the upcoming 2020 Land Rover Defender. It was just spotted at a Silverthron, Colorado Starbucks. Don’t worry, despite being parked in front of a Tesla supercharger while the test engineers grabbed macchiatos, it wasn’t ICEing. Those are shared spots. That said,…
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This is the all-new 2020 Ford Escape
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When the Ford Escape debuted in 2000, the market for “softroaders” was still small. Unibody car based platforms were not yet a popular thing. Toyota’s RAV4 and Honda’s CR-V were the two big players in the segment. Now, almost twenty years later there are twenty-two different vehicles in the segment. By the end of 2020,…
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Last Call: The Utah DOT has a fun “prank” idea for motorists
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Starting back in 2008, Utah began raising the speed limits on its interstate highway system A 75 mile per hour limit has risen to 80 mph. That’s plenty high for this nation, as most people can barely handle 40 mph. But Utah is a beautiful place with wide open and well maintained highways, so 80…
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Jump on this Bandvagn and then go anywhere
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Tracked. Articulated. All-terrain vehicle. Those three bits come together to form one hell of a Bandvagn. In this case specifically, it’s a 1978 Bolinder-Munktell Bandvagn 202. The Swedish military used these to, I don’t really know, be awesome and go everywhere? One is for sale on Bring-A-Trailer right now, and you should buy it because…
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Random Amazon LED headlight bulbs aren’t bad
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One thing that I never liked on my Toyota 4Runner are the headlights. The 2010 – 2013 SR5 and Limited models came with headlights that had silver bezels. I started looking around for used OEM headlights from a Trail model, which had black bezels instead of chrome. I didn’t want to go aftermarket because of…
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Backseat Racers – An F1 Podcast: 2019 Bahrain Grand Prix
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A few friends of Hooniverse have decided to try their hand at podcasting. The subject? Formula 1. This is Backseat Racers hosted by Joe Q Carioti and Candice Canada. It’s a short recap show that talks about the race right after the hosts view it. This week, Joe and Candice discuss the 2019 Bahrain F1 Grand Prix.…
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Engineering Explained entertains on April Fools’ with a Tesla video
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April Fools’ day is… pretty lame. I think social media is to blame for the majority of the e-hate associated with the first day of April. Every brand and content creator is on a mission for that viral joke. Most fall flat. Some are just terrible. But there are a few that get a deserved…
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Hooniverse Asks: What was your wedding chariot?
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The week of my wedding is finally here. After endless planning throughout an 16-month engagement, the event itself is this coming Saturday. My fiancé (not for long…) and I are ecstatic. The feeling is surreal. This time next week I’ll be a married man, and we a married couple. A few days ago while discussing…
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Quick Spin: 2019 Honda Passport
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For automakers, SUVs are now their livelihoods. For many of them, their SUV offerings go way beyond just small, medium, and large. There are now tiny versions, sporty versions, “coupe” versions, and super large versions. There seems to be an endless fight to the bottom to find yet another niche in this crowded market for…
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Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta Should Become America’s New Lap Record Battleground
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The newly renamed Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta is starting to become a new battleground for production lap car records. As it should be. Cars like the Dodge Viper ACR, Corvette ZR1, and now the Porsche 911 GT3 RS and GT2 RS have traded punches there just in the last couple years. The Viper’s record was…
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The News for March 29th, 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: a gorgeous one-off Ferrari, more of the attractive 2020 Hyundai Sonata, lap records, and more. Ferrari P80/C Sometime back in 2015, a “great connoisseur of the Ferrari world” approached Ferrari…