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Buy this AWD-converted Sprinter and live out your overlanding fantasies
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Overlanding is all the rage these days. The act of off-roading and living out of a self-sustaining vehicle has become much simpler with roof-top tents and accessories such as on-board refrigerators. But whether tent camping in your local woods or exploring the entirety of the country via house-on-wheels, the appeal of using a vehicle to…
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What It’s Like to Do the 12 Hours of Sebring in iRacing – Part 2
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Welcome to part 2 of this well-documented descent into madness as I run the iRacing 12 Hours of Sebring, the first true endurance race I’ve ever virtually taken part in. If you missed part 1, I strongly recommend reading that first to understand what led up to this point. Four weeks of preparation with several…
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Last Call: Here’s your parking ticket, kid!
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Street parking in Boston isn’t always easy to find. Sometimes you park in place that isn’t ideal and hope that the parking enforcement people miss you. Sometimes they don’t. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking is not only accepted,…
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Land Rover lends a helping hand in the fight against Malaria
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A trio of researchers from Oxford University want to help African scientists in the quest to eradicate malaria. This is a project that needs people, time, equipment, and a vehicle to get all of that into the places where malaria is prevalent. This means areas such as Namibia, Zambia, Tanzania, and Kenya. Land Rover have…
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This coffee table will set you back $17,000
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Are you on the hunt for the perfect piece of furniture to spruce up your sitting area? You have a sitting area, right? Of course you do! And we’ve found the perfect table to compliment your many leather-bound books, your crystal goblets of expensive liquor, and your fancy well-trained dogs wearing fancy well-trained haircuts. It’s…
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What It’s Like to Do the 12 Hours of Sebring in iRacing – Part 1
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One of the biggest selling points of iRacing is its proper endurance racing that’s unmatched by other racing sims. Every year they run about a dozen special events which include most of the major endurance races found on the WEC, IMSA, or VLN calendar. Each one takes place on a laser-scanned adaptation of the track…
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Last Call: Hop aboard the Hoonline
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There’s something inherently charming about past visions of the future. Visions from the last ~75 years of a high-tech world we might be living in now are, to me at least, utterly fascinating. Decades like the 1950s spawned brilliant concepts of how we might live, interact, and be influenced by space and interstellar flight. The…
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Celebrate your love of any vehicle with an Amazon shirt
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Twitter user @GreatIsTheWorld discovered something wonderful today. Over on Amazon.com, you can enter any make and model followed by “shirt” and the site will autogenerate custom t-shirts. We’re talking about any vehicle here. The results are hilarious, so prepare to waste time while you’re also laughing your ass off. Autoweek’s Rory Carroll replied to the…
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This is how you use bread to remove a pilot bearing
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The Boost Brothers have put together a …unique tutorial. The pair are currently wrenching on a Subaru WRX. An old pilot bearing needs to come out, and that usually requires a slide hammer. It’s a bearing that’s in a position where you can’t really get to the back of it to pop it out. Unless…
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Hooniverse Asks: What can you do to make your loved one happy with their own car?
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My wife works hard. She puts lots of miles on her 2016 Mazda CX-5. Right now she’s away on a business trip, so I’m using the car on occasion. The occasion being that my Montero is currently stuffed to the gills with five tires and five wheels, all waiting to be mounted. The Benz still…
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James Bond to drive an electric Rapide? That’s quite alright
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I love the James Bond films. My favorite Bond? It’s actually the current one as I dig the darker 007 elements at play in Daniel Craig’s journey. He’s had some wicked rides to pilot along the way. The callback to the classically excellent Aston Martin DB5 was great. His beat-to-hell DBS from Quantum of Solace…
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What if there is no mid-engine Corvette?
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After decades of rumors and spy photos we’re finally getting towards the C8 Corvette’s official release to the public. And though we think we know a lot about it, we very well may not know anything. In case you’ve been living under a rock, the C8 will bring a mid-engine to the American sports car’s…
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VR can help shape all aspects of automotive design
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While I love the romantic notion of a car designer hammering a piece of aluminum into shape, it’s an antiquated way to design a car. A more modern approach involves sketching, then clay models, and onto larger scale clay cars before a design is finalized. This can involve sending drawings or team members to locations…
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2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500: Phoning It In On A Flip Phone
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While I didn’t attend the launch of the 2019 Chevy Silverado, several people I know did. One of the items that they all relayed from Chevy’s message was “This is the most important vehicle we’ve ever built.” So it was with this context that I evaluated the vehicle. Up for review was the 2019 Silverado…
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What Was Your Automotive News for the Week?
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This seems to happen every year. A bunch of the year’s biggest new cars drop during the Geneva Motor Show and hardly anything happens in the week or two after it. The news out of the industry this week was all pretty minor and not all that interesting, or at least not interesting enough for…
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Stormtrooper 4Runner: Fitting the Old Man Emu 3″ suspension lift
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An off-road vehicle is nothing if not for the ability of its tires to maintain traction. No traction means no forward progress. Without forward progress, a day spent wheeling quickly becomes a day spent getting unstuck. As every off-roader knows, that’s only fun for so long. This isn’t simply a tire issue though. Springs and…