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Classic Captions Contest – 1984 Mercury Cougar LS Edition
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This week’s Hooniverse Classic Captions Contest comes to us on no other than, #ThrowbackThursday. How coincidental. Let’s jump back in time to the early 1980s, before yours truly was fortunately born, to the ’84 Cougar LS from Mercury. The image above tells a gentle story about Shirlena and Sheperd, who are just wrapping up a…
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Hooniverse Asks: Which group of car owners is the friendliest?
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We all have our opinion on which group of car owners we think are …less than ideal, when you need to interact with them. On the flip side though, which group of car owners do you think are a pleasure? You may be tempted to talk about Miata owners, but maybe a the cult of…
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Podcast: Episode 248 – Pizza Interruptus
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I’m solo. Not Solo. Though that would be fun… This is a solo episode, and today I’m talking about my two Benz project cars. The one that drives and the one that doesn’t. After that it’s question time, and we have plenty of those to run though. We’ll cover everything from project cars, more thoughts…
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Spy Shots: Rolls-Royce Cullinan – The SUV of those who find the Phantom too small
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If you think Rolls Royce making an SUV is a blasphemy, you’re wrong. Rolls-Royce has been making SUVs for decades, it just that they were all disguised as cars. That is quite opposite from a modern cross-over vehicle which is a car disguised as a utility vehicle. If you don’t believe me, find one of…
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"Coastal Range Rally LiteⓇ": Impressions of my first hooning in the California hills
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A Mazda6, an Abarth 500, and a life-changing experience driving the California canyon roads High in the hills east of Los Angeles is a near-mecca of hidden driving roads that deserve every bit of attention and even higher amounts of appreciation than they garner. To the locals these may be ordinary, but to me they…
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Spy Shots: The New Toyota Supra
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It is no secret that Toyota is working on a new Supra. And frankly, what the hell, Toyota, why would it take you twenty years to bring this car back to the market? Let’s hope that when it comes here it’s a worthy successor to the vehicle from the 1990s. While we already know that…
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Two doors, two seats, fixed roof, and no hatch
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I’m a big fan of grand touring automobiles. Those are usually luxury large coupes that were designed to swallow up miles while providing the driver and the passenger utmost comfort. Big engines, just enough room for you and yours, and the small amount of stuff two people may need for a weekend at a resort…
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Boston's Art of the Automobile
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The Art of the Automobile, which corresponds with the city’s ArtWeek, for the third year in row kicked off New England’s outdoor Car Show Season. Limited to only 110 cars, the idea of this show was to present to the public a little bit from each segment of the whole car culture. Needless to say,…
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A closer look at the Mitsubishi L300 4×4
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Last December I started in a video review of an awful but not awful Fiat Cinquecento Sporting. The host of the video was a Polish automotive journalist Tymon Grabowski, also known as Zlomnik, which long time Hooniverse readers may be more familiar with. Now Mr. Zlomnik has made another video, that of a Mitshubishi L300…
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The Carchive: The Colt (Mitsubishi) Tredia
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I’ve looked into the psychology behind the hoarding that has lead to The Carchive being created. If it was information I sought, there are infinite alternative sources I could have turned to. The Internet, for one – books, for another. I turn to the latter whenever I seek a fresh perspective on things: In many…
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Jeep Grand Cherokee TrackhawkI swear a lot in this one…
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You can walk into a dealership and leave with the keys to a 707-horsepower Jeep Grand Cherokee. It’s called the Trackhawk, and it’s the best, dumbest vehicle ever built. Of course, you’ll need to drop around $90,000 to get one. Still, what we have here is a Hellcat Jeep packing all-wheel-drive and good cargo space.…
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The News for May 4th, 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: Buy a Brabham BT62, help fund their return to Le Mans and be a development driver Porsche…
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Mystery Car
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Let’s mix things up a bit. We’d typically post a piece of a taillight, an odd angle of a hood, or a half broken piece of a fender trim. That was always enough for you hooligans to figure out what car it came off of. But this, this is a bit different. Make and model,…
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Spy Shots: Jeep Wrangler pickup – The Scrambler!
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The new Wrangler is already a runaway success for Jeep. It alone will likely be responsible for keeping the lights on in Alfa Romeo and Fiat dealerships. But Jeep isn’t done with the two- and four-door version of the Wrangler. It is no secret that the Jeep pickup is coming. Even people who work for…
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Hooniverse Asks: What modern upgrades do you enjoy in your older cars or trucks?
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Right now, my 1974 Mercedes-Benz 280 sedan is receiving a modern upgrade. No, it’s not under the hood. Nor is it going to affect the way the old Benz rides and drives. Instead, it’s going to upgrade my aural experience. I’m having a new stereo installed thanks to our friends at Clarion. What I’m not…
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Up close with the Candylab Toys Drifter
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It’s a toy. But as an adult you’re going to want to keep this on your desk. That’s because it’s very well made and will leave you imagining the places you’d go if you owned a real version of the vehicle this toy images itself to be. It comes from an outfit called Candylab Toys,…