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H.O.T. Damn, Round One: ZL1 1LE vs Hellcat vs GT350R
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Round One: American’s top-tier muscle/pony/sports-car trio Welcome to H.O.T. Damn, a new and terribly-titled segment in which your Hooniverse contributors shamelessly show their true vehicular preferences in picking which of three automotive options we would choose to Hoon, Own, and Total. Many of us are familiar with the extremely juvenile but equally amusing game of…
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Hooniverse Asks: So what's your favorite wagon?
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The above video by our friends at Petrolicious is just wonderful. They’ve managed to find someone who owns a 1987 Mercedes-Benz AMG Hammer Wagon. This is a real deal longroof built by the Affalterbach best. Someone back in the late 1980s bought a diesel wagon, then shipped that big beautiful bastard back to Germany for…
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Project Haterade RX-8: Five Hundred Dollars My Ass!
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I found a Mazda RX-8 for $800. It ran when, about two years ago, it was parked under a tree after the owner diagnosed a misfire from a bad ignition coil. It collected mold inside, leaves outside, and vegetation underneath. With a little luck, it’ll be racing this December in the 24 Hours of LeMons’…
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Hooniverse Asks: Non-Bike Riders, which bike makes you want to saddle up?
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I don’t ride on two wheels. There wasn’t a time when I got into when I was a younger man, and now I have no urge to suddenly dive into this world. Still, I’ve always remained curious about bikes from arms length. There are a few bikes out there that even have me paying a…
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Off on a tangent: Alternative control techniques
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It was supposed to be a break from cars. We’d been living practically off-grid for a week, beginning with five days in our favourite corner of Cornwall for some R&R, before moving to the ‘Beautiful Days’ folk and rock music festival in Ottery St Mary, Devon. It was while watching a band called Lau, that…
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Carchive Special: The European cars that caught me unawares
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As we know, true car geeks will feverishly devour any relevant information that comes their way on their journey along the path to enlightenment. The thing is, though, that information doesn’t necessarily arrive in the order you expect it to. When I was growing up, my local newsagent stocked all the most popular British car…
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The News for September 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: Bentley reveals sharper, more advanced Continental GT Polestar does more with less with the new Volvo S60…
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Hooniverse Asks: O'Reillys, Autozone, or local Mom & Pop shop?
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Ignoring our Editor of Young Person Things horrible typo above, you can see that I was out doing some work on the truck. There was a bit of an oil leak, and I believe it was coming from the bottom of the timing cover. So I did some work, which meant running to my local…
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The Cars of Kyrgyzstan
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This is the second submission from long time reader Oliver Klose, a.k.a. Sjalabais. This summer he vacationed in Kyrgyzstan, which I think is the Bora Bora of central Asia. He submitted two articles, this first one of driving in Kyrgyzstan and this second one on the cars that he saw there. Enjoy. -KK Central Asia has an interesting…
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A Guide to Driving in Kyrgyzstan
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Today we have a submission from long time reader Oliver Klose, a.k.a. Sjalabais. This summer he vacationed in Kyrgyzstan, which I think is the Hawaii of central Asia. He submitted two articles, this first one of driving in Kyrgyzstan and an another on the cars that he saw there. Enjoy. -KK Kyrgyzstan is a small, mountainous country wedged…
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Team O'Neil Explains Rally Car Prep
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Wyatt Knox from Team O’Neil Rally School takes us on a tour of what makes a car, a rally car. From suspension, to brakes, engine work, and the cage, he goes over everything in detail. But there is more; more stuff that you typically can’t just see, the kind of stuff that is not in…
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Gridlife South 2017 – A Perfect Weekend at the Track
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For the past three years, a new kind of motorsports festival has been rapidly gaining momentum and popularity within the car community. It’s called Gridlife and it’s a festival that combines road racing, drifting, car shows, and music into one long weekend at the track. After starting at a small track in the fields of…
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eBay finds: W126 Mercedes S-Class….hatchback.
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Once upon a time, the hatchback was invented, and we saw that it was good. It allowed small cars a far greater degree of versatility than cars with a separate trunk could offer. Gradually, it dawned on carmakers that this extra practicality shouldn’t be the exclusive domain of the hard of spending, and larger, more…
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Shiny and Chrome Wilton Silver Color Mist Review: Don't Get it in Your Eyes
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About two years ago, The Internet found Wilton Silver Color Mist. It’s a cake decorating spray that looks like a suitable way to replicate the “Shiny and Chrome” spray that the War Boys in Mad Max: Fury Road liked to use right before their (often explosive and fiery) death. The A.V. Club reported that people…
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The False Neutral Episode #69: Interview With CSBK’s Colin Frasier
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This week Eric travels north of the border to Canada and has a conversation with the organizer of the Canadian National Superbike Series Colin Fraser. The main item they discuss is a new Lightweight Sportbike class to be added to their National Series next year, but they also talk about the state of racing in…
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The False Neutral Episode #69: Interview With CSBK's Colin Frasier
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This week Eric travels north of the border to Canada and has a conversation with the organizer of the Canadian National Superbike Series Colin Fraser. The main item they discuss is a new Lightweight Sportbike class to be added to their National Series next year, but they also talk about the state of racing in…