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The Carchive: The 1977 Toyota Celica
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The surfaces of the day have been dusted and the floor of time has been vacuumed – but what’s lurking under the ornamental rug of history? Lets lift up a corner and peek into the dusty darkness to see what horrors crawl out. Welcome back to The Carchive. Oh, the Toyota Celica. Beloved of spoilt…
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Hooniverse Asks: What's the most unlikely yet capable machine out there?
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I knew I wanted to get the Range Rover Velar dirty. I did not, however, expect it to be climbing hills, powering through massive rutted trails, and hanging wheels in the air like it just didn’t care. This is supposed to be the fancy pants Range Rover. The one that sacrifices function for quite a…
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Spied! V8-powered AWD Dodge Challenger!
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Despite its age, the sales of the Dodge Challenger are great. It frequently outsells its main competitors, the Mustang and Camaro. Combine those sales with the even higher sales of its sedan cousin, the Dodge Charger, and we’re talking about a lot of cars. Contributing to the Challenger’s popularity is the availability of an all-wheel-drive…
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Classic Captions Contest – 1982 Plymouth Reliant K Edition
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For this week’s run of Hooniverse Classic Captions Contest, we shoot back to 1982. The setting? A quiet farm house on the outskirts of hoppin’ Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The Ross family takes a moment from supper, to pose with their whip- the stunning, sexy, sophisticated ’82 Plymouth Reliant K. But before we write this…
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Hooniverse Asks: Would You Ever Use a Car Subscription Service?
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The auto industry’s latest and greatest idea is that car ownership is scary and needs to be made less scary by “smartphone-like” subscription plans. A handful of automakers are already experimenting with it in select markets and each program is basically like a more expensive lease made way more convenient. But is it worth it?…
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The News for April 6th, 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: TVR announces partnership with Rebellion Racing in LMP1 More Alfa Romeo Giulia coupe rumors paint an awesome…
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Mystery Car
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When the esteemed-ish Rob Emslie was running the Mystery Car section he would typically start off with some obscure fact or anniversary. Unfortunately I don’t have such powers. The cars he would post were often older, classics of you will. The part he would spotlight was always exclusive to that vehicle, or perhaps he’d trick…
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Truck Central: 2018 Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro review
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“This thing costs how much?” That’s a phrase I said to myself a few times, before it actually started to make some sense. You see, just a week prior, I had my hands on the new JL Jeep Wrangler. It was a Sport 2-door and yet it stickered for $38k as equipped. This 2018 Toyota…
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California road-trip review: 6 days and 656 miles with a 2017.5 Mazda6 Grand Touring
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From Los Angeles to Angeles National Forest, my fiancé and I learn what Mazda’s midsize sedan is like to live with, road trip, and hoon. The weather forecast for New York’s JFK airport was ominous to say the least. Heavy snow, high winds, the usual of what we’d come to expect from a particularly brutal…
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Classic Captions Contest – 1956 Cadillac Edition
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Can you believe the last time we did a Classic Captions Contest here on Hooniverse was back in January of 2017? If you missed that run, travel back in time to this adventurous family, wearing matching khaki “outdoorsy” outfits posing in front of a rad 1987 Toyota Van. Clearly the father, Scott, is armed and…
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Makellos Classics 1973 Porsche 2.7 RS Hot Rod
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There’s a small Porsche shop down in Escondido, CA that’s putting together some excellent machines. Case in point is this 1973 Porsche 911 that’s been given a 2.7 RS treatment. In fact, Makellos has taken things a bit further and turned this old Porsche into a 2.7 RS Hot Rod. In the tail, the 2.7-liter…
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The Carchive: The 1967 Humber Sceptre
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It’s Tuesday evening where I am, some way beyond our usual appointment with the musty pages of motoring past, so let’s get straight down to business. The Rootes Group is late and relatively unlamented, given its fascinating history and the diverse range of products it churned out. Its constituent brands included Hillman, Singer and Sunbeam,…
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Hooniverse Asks: 200,000 miles for $20,000?
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It used to be that 100,000 miles was the life mileage expectation of a passenger vehicles. Times have changed. Most vehicles are better designed and better built now than they were thirty years ago. But still, 200,000 miles and almost twenty years is a lot and a lot can happen in that time. Maintenance history,…
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A Golden (Hour) Opportunity – Ed Roth's Hot Rods at Amelia
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While out on the setup day for this year’s Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, I happened to stumble across the hot rods of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth being towed in and set up for the Concours. To top it off, it was the beginning of golden-hour, the perfect time of day to capture them in photographs as…
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Cars with roll down rear windows
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There was a time when cars had large windows. A time when there was no need for blind-spot sensors because they were so small. And there were many vehicles that allowed all windows to be rolled down. This was especially common with full-size SUVs and station wagons. This was because years ago they all had…
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The News for March 30th, 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: Jaguar stuffs a bigger engine into the F-Pace Audi introduces RS 5 Sportback Lincoln is giving the…