Articles
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B is for Build finishes its BMW M5 V10-swapped Datsun 240Z
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The rush was on. B is for Build was cranking, wrenching, bolting, wrapping well into the night and next morning but the work has paid off. The car is done. On the trailer. Bound for SEMA. And it’s been one hell of an ambitious build. The finished product is a Datsun 240Z that’s been transformed with…
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Jalopnik road trips a 1970 BMW 2500 across the country
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Jalopnik boss man Patrick George and skid-car lover Raphael Orlove recently spent a few days behind the wheel of a lovely vintage BMW. The car is a 1970 2500 and it was formerly owned by Road & Track word fornicator Sam Smith. He sold the car to a friend of Patrick and Raphs so it needed to…
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The eCOPO Camaro is an all-electric drag racing badass machine
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Our electrified future is bright. Even when that brightness is being blotted out by excessive and glorious tire smoke. Said tires are being destroyed by a new drag-racing Chevrolet Camaro and this one is 100% electric. Say hello to the eCOPO Camaro concept. Chevy has teamed up with BorgWarner to deliver an EV race car…
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Hooniverse Asks: Have you switched to your winter tires yet?
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The temperatures are falling. The ground is cold and hard. Your lovely ultra high performance tires have become effectively useless. It’s that time and you know it, but have you made the switch yet? I’m not going to insert a WINTER IS COMING joke because winter is already here and that means it’s time to…
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Last Call: Am Not Edition
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This non-functional 1977 styling buck was as far as The AMC Am Van had gotten toward production when American Motors decided they couldn’t afford the buy-in required to make their “Concept 80” micro-van design a reality, even though consumer response was favorable. Based on the surprisingly intense combination of lustful longing and gnashing of teeth…
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Ayrton Senna whipped a VAZ-2101 around the Hungaroring
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You hear the name Ayrton Senna and your mind goes to a few places. It might be Monaco. It could be an image of that iconic helmet and its colors. Perhaps you think of a rainy circuit and Senna putting on a driving clinic for his colleagues. What you don’t think about is the VAZ-2101. A Soviet-modified…
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Pirelli brings back a classic in the Stella Bianca
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If you have a vintage ride, you often have few options with respect to the tires. There are companies out there, certainly, but finding original examples of the tires once fitted to your car may prove a fruitless endeavor. Pirelli has an answer for a number of vintage car owners, however, as it’s brought back…
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2018 Smart EQ fortwo – it’s electric now
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Travel throughout European cities and you’ll find smart (with a small s) cars of all styles and ages. They’re in variety of colors and trims, ranging from base models to ones with custom factory paints and Brabus accessories. They’re frequently parked sideways on crowded streets where conventional cars are parallel parking, after their drivers finally…
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The Ford Mustang Bullitt is the right way to go green
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Forget the movie, embrace the awesome of the 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt. Dripping with perfect Highland Green paint and stanced nicely with a set of blacked-out torque thrust-style wheels, the all-new Bullitt is a bad-ass ride. Under the hood is a power-bumped 5.0-liter V8 engine and it’s making 480 horsepower here. Row your own gears…
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Last Call: Four Times Fifty Edition
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We normally restrict motorcycle content to Hooniverse’s designated “Two-Wheel Tuesdays.” But today I’m making an exception, because fifty years ago today — October 26th, 1968 — is widely recognized as the very day the modern age of motorcycling began. The opening of the 15th Tokyo Motor Show marked the debut of the Honda CB750 four,…
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The Carchive: The 1976 Toyota Celica Coupe
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With the weekend firmly in sight, and Last Call about to provide us with that final breath of relief that we’ve all been waiting for, lets just sneak a moment to look at something comfortingly familiar in this fast-paced, ever changing world we live in. Last week we saw how Vauxhall marketed its Carlton, Viceroy…
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Mopar is unleashing a brand-new Elephant into the room
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The people at Chrysler and Mopar are insane. How else do we have vehicles like the Challenger and Charger Hellcat, the Demon, and the Trackhawk? But their insanity is our kind of insanity and it’s reared its head in a glorious new way… which is in fact sort of an old way, at the same time.…
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Mahk still hates Chevy
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Mahk is back. So is his hatred for Chevy, the brand’s pitchman, and the bow-tied branded trucks. This latest Real People spot is a good one to lampoon and Mahk is upping his editing skills. He’s also upped his knowledge of the automakers out there as he rattles off the names of brands he thinks…
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The News for October 26th, 2018
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of some of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. There’s also just a little opinion of mine because I can. This week: Audi reveals sharper and more powerful R8 Camaro SS SEMA concept reportedly previews fixed fascia for production…
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SEMA 2018: New products from Yakima
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It’s almost Halloween, which means that the annual SEMA show in Las Vegas is a few days away. Expect the usual onslaught of news to hit next week. Our friends at Yakima (booth 34101) jumped the gun and showed us their new products that will be at SEMA this year. Those include: HD Truck Rack…
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The McLaren Speedtail is a proper hyper car because it's properly wild
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Supercars, over the course of the last decade or so, have become almost boring. Not because of the baked-in performance or styling. There’s been some great designs and the modern supercar or hyper car is capable of throwing down wild metrics. But there’s nothing out there that captures the imagine quite like the old-school machines…