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If luxury and performance brands made vans…
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There used to be a time when luxury vehicles were pretty much nothing but large sedans or equally large coupes. Those days are over. Today even Bentley and Lamborghini have SUVs and Rolls-Royce will have one soon. Mercedes-Benz has two SUVs that cost over $100,000 and go beyond $200,000. If your budget is slightly lower,…
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Hooniverse Asks: What vehicle should the Super Bowl MVP receive?
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For more than a decade, the most valuable player during the Super Bowl received a car as a prize for earning the MVP status. That was when General Motors was a major sponsor of the season-capping football game. Now that Hyundai has taken over that spot, the MVP ride has gone away. Let’s pretend, for…
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Diecast Delights: An MG 6 in 1:16th scale
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Impulse buy time. I’ve not bought many diecast models of late because, well, I thought I had all those that I wanted. Turns out I was wrong, and clearly have absolutely no clear vision of what I actually want to collect. Every model I’ve collected so far has been of either a car that I…
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The News for February 2nd, 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: McLaren channels 570S GT4 for new limited-run MSO project Ram rolls out with upscale 1500 Laramie Longhorn…
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 248 – Your Outlook Makes Me Uncomfortable W/ Jonathon Klein
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This week on the Cammed & Tubbed podcast, Cam and Brad are around talking cars with Jonathon Klein. He always seems to come on the show when his career changes dramatically, so tune in to hear what happened. After we hash out the 3D’s, Klein talks about his new gig, we dig into Patron Questions,…
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 248 – Your Outlook Makes Me Uncomfortable W/ Jonathon Klein
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This week on the Cammed & Tubbed podcast, Cam and Brad are around talking cars with Jonathon Klein. He always seems to come on the show when his career changes dramatically, so tune in to hear what happened. After we hash out the 3D’s, Klein talks about his new gig, we dig into Patron Questions,…
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The DFL Show: Episode 89 – Choppy
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This week it’s Brad, Patrick, and Joel talking about racing. We had a guest (I won’t name names and destroy reputations…) but some technical issues with their audio left us without a track, so I had to edit him completely out of the show, it chopped about 40 minutes off of the run time, as…
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Bigger Numbers are Smaller Cars
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In the days of alphanumeric vehicle names, automakers typically setup their model lineup so that the bigger number represents the bigger, better, pricier car. There hasn’t been a better example of that than the BMW lineup of the 1990s. The 3-series was a small sedan for yuppies. The 5-series was the bigger sedan designed with…
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Carchive Special: The endless fascination of JDM
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There’s little doubt that my favorite section of the entire Carchive is that covering Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) models. I leap on any opportunity to expand it, particularly with brochures for cars that were likely seen as monumentally dull in their homeland. Cars like the Toyota Mark II. This was an upper-midsize car, fitting somewhere…
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Top Gear Teases a Great Season
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Earlier we have seen a quick preview of the upcoming season 25 of Top Gear. You know Top Gear, the original motoring show from the UK, now hosted by two Brits and an American – Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris, and Rory Reid. Well, BBC America, where the show will air this spring, is giving us…
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Podcast: Episode 236 – Ride along in a 2018 Mustang with Engineering Explained’s Jason Fenske
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Jason Fenske is the man behind the popular Engineering Explained YouTube channel. He and I are shuttling out to a driving event in Palm Springs, and I took the opportunity to fire up a GoPro and record a conversation. We’ll learn a bit about Jason’s Honda S2000 and Subaru Crosstrek, how he started the channel,…
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Podcast: Episode 236 – Ride along in a 2018 Mustang with Engineering Explained's Jason Fenske
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Jason Fenske is the man behind the popular Engineering Explained YouTube channel. He and I are shuttling out to a driving event in Palm Springs, and I took the opportunity to fire up a GoPro and record a conversation. We’ll learn a bit about Jason’s Honda S2000 and Subaru Crosstrek, how he started the channel,…
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Two Wheel Tuesday – An Interview with Ducati’s Jason Chinnock
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BONUS EPISODE! Eric had the chance to interview Ducati North America CEO Jason Chinnock. Jason was in Detroit for a local launch of the new Panigale V4 and Panigale V4S. He was gracious enough to sit down and talk about the current Ducati lineup and where he sees the company going forward. This bonus episode…
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Two Wheel Tuesday – An Interview with Ducati's Jason Chinnock
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BONUS EPISODE! Eric had the chance to interview Ducati North America CEO Jason Chinnock. Jason was in Detroit for a local launch of the new Panigale V4 and Panigale V4S. He was gracious enough to sit down and talk about the current Ducati lineup and where he sees the company going forward. This bonus episode…
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Hooniverse Asks: How about some Pinewood Derby racer suggestions?
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I was somewhat deprived as a child. For some reason I did not do many of the things that my kids are doing now. One of those things was building a Pinewood Derby racer. Last night my daughter came home from her Girl Scout meeting with a piece of wood, some nails, and four wheels.…
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McLaren, Honda, Some Cameras, and You
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At the start of the prior Formula One season, McLaren Honda announced it would be letting Amazon produce a Prime Original series about the 2017 season. The fact that the series is still being released after this awful season was done and dusted, and divorce filed, has me more interested than I was when the…