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Where are Toyota and Lexus heading?
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About a month ago, I spent a solid week with a 2018 Toyota Tundra Premium. It was a nice enough truck, but nice enough doesn’t seem to cut it right now. Ford is selling more of its F-150 than ever before, Ram just updated the… well, Ram, and Chevrolet has a fresh Silverado and Sierra…
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Lexus LC 500 – The conceptual grand tourer, made real
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Have you ever driven a concept car? That’s what it feels like I’m doing behind the wheel of the Lexus LC 500. Everyone stares. Everyone points. Everyone soaks it in. Then I downshift, mat the throttle, and the 5.0-liter V8 creates a sonic thrill. A total of 471 horsepower is released along with furious noise…
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2016 Ford F150 Lemon Law Saga
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Last night, I dropped my F-150 off at the dealership where I originally bought it. After that, I picked up a refund check. I owned it for nearly one year. During that time it spent 47 total days in the shop with engine problems. After filing all the required forms and dealing with Ford and…
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Oddball Project: $21 eBay Stereo
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I’ve been daily driving a thirty year old Toyota FX16 and the aftermarket head unit up and died a couple of months ago. So, as usual, I took to the internet to see what high fidelity options are out there. The first result for “Bluetooth Car Stereo” on eBay was $21. Too good to be…
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BFGoodrich offers up a proper mud-terrain tire for RC vehicles
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If you’re taking your vehicle and getting down and dirty, there’s a fair chance it rolls around wearing a BFGoodrich tire. Here at the Hooniverse, we’re fans of the BFG offerings, including the KO2 for all around off-road greatness. For stickier situations, you have the recently released KM3, which is a Mud-Terrain tire. And now…
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Glickenhaus is working on a modern version of the Baja Boot
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James Glickenhaus made big news when he decided to fire up his own racing team and start building cars. The resulting company is called Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, and its current product is a race car called the SCG003. That will spawn a street version, and SCG is cooking up other vehicles as well. The one…
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Podcast: Episode 257 – Come to town… [Solo Episode]
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Chris is on the East Coast so I’m sitting solo on this one. That means I’m down in my garage, sitting in the front seat of my Benz, with a glass of wine in my hand… and a podcast microphone in the other. Topics this week include a dash of news; Goodwood highlights Aston Martin…
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You can now own James Bond's Aston Martin DB5… but you have to put it together
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A 1965 Aston Martin DB5 used in the film GoldenEye recently sold for $3.5 million. You can buy one for yourself, and with a price tag of $150, it’s quite the bargain by comparison. Of course, you’re going to have to deal with 1,290 pieces and put the British sports coupe together yourself. Lego have created a…
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Need to cool off? Watch RJ Anderson rip across snow in his Polaris RZR
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RJ Anderson has taken his heavily modified Polaris RZR just about everywhere. The XP1K series has been an unreal adventure showing just how far you can push a side-by-side. Well… not you. RJ though, he can do some wild stuff behind the wheel of a UTV. In his latest video, Anderson ditches the dirt and rutted…
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Rally cars of Goodwood: All the world's a stage
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Ah, just when you thought it was over. For the three or four individuals who have yet to tire of our 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed coverage, you’ll be pleased to know that I have a swollen bag of images and things to release in dribs and drabs over the coming weeks. This’ll be my…
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Two Wheel Tuesday: False Neutral Podcast #79 – Not Quite Doing It
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Garrett didn’t quite go to a track day. Garrett also didn’t quite go on his summer motorcycle trip. Eric didn’t quite get his electronic ignition installed. Pete didn’t quite do Smackdab. We discuss all of these things on this month’s episode, along with our views on Travis Pastrana’s successful recreation of the Caesar’s Palace fountain…
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Japanese Kei trucks turned into mobile gardens
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For Japan, the world of car customization is an anything goes environment. You have the amazing lights and sounds of the crazy Lamborghini club. There’s the Dajiban side of things. And then, of course, you have Bosozoku and Dekotora. A more recent trend that seems to be gaining traction, according to Spoon-Tamago.com, is to use…
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OEM vs Aftermarket: TYC Taillights
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My Toyota 4Runner is a 2010 model year vehicle, the first year for the fifth generation model. Yes, it’s getting old now but with less than 60,000 miles, it’s still very solid. And it’s not even that outdated. The 4Runner received a facelift for the 2014 model year but it did not change mechanically. The…
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Hooniverse Asks: What's the best "driving experience" out there?
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This Sunday, I’m heading south of the border. Down in Ensenada I’ll be strapping myself into an off-road buggy on an adventure led by the Wide Open Baja crew. I played around with these machines a few years back when BFGoodrich invited Hooniverse to Baja to sample the then-new KO2 tire. Now I’m heading back…
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Here's the full timed shootout at the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed
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If you haven’t been able to tell, we love the Goodwood Festival of Speed. For those of you who do not however, don’t worry as this is likely our last post of the 2018 event. But it’s a good one, as Goodwood have released video showing the entire shootout portion of the event. This is when…
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Asymmetrical Cars
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It’s a weird thing about symmetry. Studies have shown that things that are symmetrical look more appealing to people: faces, bodies, houses, bridges, and most other things. Before you scream at me that people are in fact symmetrical, they aren’t really perfectly so. My left ear sticks out a lot more than my right ear,…