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Project Introduction: My new 5th-gen 4Runner TRD Off Road
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Things didn’t exactly go as planned last summer. The Grand Sport debacle backfired entirely and I found myself amidst a full-blown conundrum of needing a daily-driver that aligned with my primary hobbies of exploring, hiking, and off-roading. For a change my brain said “buy something normal” and, for the first time, my heart agreed. It was…
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F1 champion Jenson Button to take on the Mint 400
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Jenson Button was a terrific Formula 1 driver. Over the span of a 17-year F1 career, Button stood on the podium 50 times. He won it all in 2009, racing for Brawn GP. In 2017, Jenson hung up his F1 hat and has since transitioned to piloting Super GT cars over in Japan and dabbling…
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Hooniverse Asks: Which race car driver would you like to see try a different discipline?
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You can race at a high level in one form of motorsport, but that doesn’t mean your skills automatically translate. Road racers might not have the right mindset for drifting. Open-wheel superstars aren’t used to things like copious amounts of suspension travel and throttle induced setups for jumps and dips. Still, the basics of going…
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This vintage car crash from 2005 at Road America is insane
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“On my command, unleash hell!” We assume that’s how the race stewards started this vintage event at Road America. The thing is though, that we don’t need to assume. That’s because the race steward (or someone claiming to be the steward) chimed in to a preserved piece of Internet forum. Here’s what they had to say…
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Lego goes classic cool with customizable Ford Mustang
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Lego Creator Kits have been a bit on the hit and miss side, for us here at Hooniverse. Some look fantastic, such as the Porsche 911 GT3RS kit (or Lancia Stratos kit, if you’re so inclined). Others look like blocky versions of iconic machines, where it’s as if you’re looking at the car and you…
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The News for February 22nd, 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: Ford shows America what it’s missing out on with the Focus ST, Aston Martin is working on another hypercar with Valkyrie DNA, Rolls-Royce is selling Cullinans faster than they can…
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Mystery Car
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Welcome to another edition of Mystery Car. Today’s mystery is obviously very functional and perhaps not sufficiently cropped. Same rules as always, make and model. I can do without the engine specs this week, just because I don’t even know what they are. Get to it! Congrats to last week’s winners. There were several, on…
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Last Call: How’d they find this picture of me for the service manual?
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I’m on the internets, minding my own business. My current search involves sniffing out service and technical manuals for my Mitsubishi Montero. There’s a nice clean scan of one designated as a chassis, electrical, and body manual. And right on one of the first pages, I see it… a picture of me! Who else could…
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Old school, still cool? The 2019 GMC Yukon
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While most of the automotive industry’s shift into crossovers and sport utility vehicles have gone with a car-based unibody, General Motors is getting it done with an old-school, full-frame, truck-based chassis on the Chevrolet Suburban, GMC Yukon, and the Cadillac Escalade. Having sampled the Escalade in long wheelbase form several months ago, I was interested…
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What do you want to know about Nissan’s 2019 Titan?
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This week we’ve got the 2019 Nissan Titan in for review. Nissan’s entry into the fiercely competitive full-size pickup battlefield arrived for the 2004 model year and sat dormant without much of a substantial makeover for more than a decade. The Titan then took 2016 off and hid in hiatus before coming back for the…
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Hooniverse Asks: What does Toyota need to do with the Tundra?
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The Toyota Tundra has been lumbering around as is for what seems like millennia. For the 2020 model year, we know there’s a fresh TRD Pro version coming. But that “freshness” is relegated to the off road running gear. The engine is still the aging 5.7-liter V8. That dated interior is the same with maybe…
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Last Call: Karl Lagerfeld BMW
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It’s little known fact that the famous fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld, corroborated with BMW on a design of some E32 and E38 7-series Individual models. And he nailed it. Rest in peace, Mr. Lagerfeld. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking…
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Podcast: Episode 283 – Dan Sandberg, CEO of Brembo Brakes [SEMA 2018]
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For the third year in a row, CEO of Brembo USA Dan Sandberg sits down to talk about the new product offerings. He also dives into the world of vertical integration with OEM contracts and his own personal vehicular interests. Listen in by clicking play above. We’re closing in on Episode 300. Like 200 before…
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Road trip: Boston to NYC in a 2019 Dodge Durango GT
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The Dodge Durango needs no introduction. The current, third generation of the three-row Dodge Durango has been around since 2011. It received a mild visual update in 2016 but features, trims, special editions, and other subtle changes have been ongoing, as they are with most FCA vehicles. Some of its architecture can date back to…
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Driving the Roush Stage 3 Mustang and F-150 SC
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You can walk into certain Ford dealerships, pay your money, and leave with weapons of mass tire destruction. One is the 650-horsepower Roush F-150 SC. The other is a 710-hp Stage 3 Mustang. Both wear Roush TVS 2650 superchargers. The Mustang has an active exhaust system, while the F-150 gets a two-inch lift and the…
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Hooniverse Asks: What dealer-available aftermarket company does the best work?
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That truck above? It’s the 2018 Roush F-150 SC. You can walk into a Ford dealership, hand over some $70,000+, and leave with a Mad Max-ian pickup truck. This one starts as a standard rig equipped with a 5.0-liter V8 before Roush adds its Phase 1 supercharger, reworks the engine tuning, and throws a few…