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Hooniverse Asks: What's your dream winter beater?
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Let’s play this game with the caveat that money is no object. You can go wild here. You’re on the search for a winter beater, and you have the cash you need to make your snowy-weather dreams come true. My winter beater would wind up being a Land Rover Defender modified by Twisted, which means…
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Dropping a 707-horsepower Hellcrate motor into a ’68 Charger
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In case you need further confirmation that we live in amazing automotive times, the Hellcrate engine may just be it. Order it from Mopar, install it, and transform a vehicle of your choice into a tire-shredding 707-horsepower monster. Easy, right? The real question is what vehicle to drop this monster engine into? A customer of…
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Perfecting Perfection: 2017 Mazda MX-5 RF
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The answer is always Miata (MX-5). At least that’s the stock answer when you ask an automotive enthusiast what car you should buy. You have St Bernard you need to haul around? The answer is Miata and pull out the passenger seat. You need to go to Home Depot or Lowes for lumber? The answer…
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Hooniverse Asks: Which car should get a "continuation" version?
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Occasionally, an automaker will reach into its well of past production models and bring one back from the dead for a short bit. It’s a special offering of a classic in the modern era. Aston Martin has done that recently with the arrival of its DB4 GT. This is a continuation model, and it’s a…
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The News for December 8th, 2017
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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: Lamborghini is making SUVs again as we move further from god Saleen is back in the business…
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The Grand Tour – Season 2
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If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again, right? The first season of the hyped Grand Tour left me a bit… underwhelmed. It was exactly what I, and many others expected, the continuation of adventures that the three idiot hosts started at TopGear. But somehow, for me, it wasn’t ideal. I hoped for improvement…
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Vintage drifting video shows low horsepower mixing with tremendous fun
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Over on Reddit, a user posted a simple drifting video that shows a driver of a Toyota AE86 working his way down a canyon road. It’s a single shot, mounted in the rear of the passenger side of the car and shows the driver fully in control of his machine. There’s no music. No narration.…
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Dashboards: Into the future with the simplicity of the past?
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You know what’s great? Apple CarPlay, that’s what. Its Android format is probably not too shabby either but I don’t have any direct experience. Android Auto may actually be better as it has Waze and a bunch other apps not available on Apple CarPlay. The bottom line is that both systems integrate really well into…
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Hooniverse Asks: What is the most annoying but necessary item in your toolbox?
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You have lots of tools. Some of them you love. Others, there just taking up space because you might need them. It’s a necessary item for a variety of reasons, but you still hate looking at it every time you open up your toolbox. Which tool do you find most annoying out of all the ones…
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Hooniverse Asks: What is the least expensive yet best fix you've done on a vehicle?
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Jalopnik’s Raph Orlove posted a story yesterday that detailed how he took some time to fix his Baja Bug. Specifically, Orlove attacked the aging, sagging suspension under his Volkswagen and installed new shocks. The resulting ride change is remarkable, and the fix itself is relatively easy. That has me thinking about swapping out the shocks…
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Hooniverse Asks: Can you pick a decade for your preferred car show?
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Radwood 2 just went down this past weekend and it was, well, quite rad. All manner of machine from the 1980s and 1990s arrived to wow those in attendance. If you were born in the 70s and 80s, this makes Radwood one of the greatest gatherings of vehicles you’re likely to find, at least as…
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Diecast Delights: A Porsche 911 Carrera RS in 1:18 scale
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Diecast Delights isn’t everybody’s favourite Hooniverse series, but with the season of expenditure upon us, I thought it worth chiming in with another episode. You see, this is the time of year that many parents consider giving a young hoon their first proper model car, and none of the 1:18s featured in Diecast Delights so…
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CAR BROS completely covers all that the LA Auto Show has to offer
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The LA Auto Show is open to the public right now and …you don’t need to go. Why you ask? Well, because the folks at CAR BROS have already covered everything you’re going to want to see there. Reveals, rumors, and non-manufactured controversy are on the menu for today. Eventually though, CAR BROS figures out…
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Radwood 2 in Pictures
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Radwood 2, the show celebrating 1980s and 1990s automotive culture happened last Saturday in California. And I’m kind of pissed-off. I’m pissed because I own cars from 1980s and 1990s, I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and I couldn’t be there. I’m pissed because I know more about these cars than I should…
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The Carchive: The '76 Jeep Wagoneer
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SUVs have reached ubiquity now, and are familiar enough for us to believe that they’ve always been around. There have also been endless arguments as to who actually invented the hulking great luxury four-wheel-drive as we know it, and now is really not the time to get drawn into such a debate. However. We can…
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The News for December 1st, 2017
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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: Mazda 6, now with premium features and a turbo Mercedes-Benz shows off new styling and straight-six with…