Articles
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Back To School In A Widebody Hellcat Challenger
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Most auto journos think they are very good drivers. In reality, few of them actually are as good as they think. I’ve found low interest in attending schools with track instruction. In their own mind, these folks are as good a driver as the instructors. For very few, perhaps they’re correct. The majority of the…
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Hooniverse Asks: Would selling Jeep to a Chinese company be all that bad?
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The word “iconic” gets thrown around a lot, but it’s hard to come up with a brand more suited to that title than Jeep. Born out of our military and proved out in World War II, that seven-slot grille is an American symbol known around the world. It would be a shame for that steadfast…
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Official Hooniversal Opinion: Drifting is Good
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This past weekend was spent at the Gridlife South motorsport festival which hosted, among other wonderful things, dozens of drifters both professional and amateur. It was the first time I had ever seen [intentional] drifting in person and I got to witness it as a credentialed media “professional” stationed closer to the track than I…
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Spy Shots! 2019 Ford Transit Connect
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You know what is a very underrated vehicle? The Ford Transit Connect. Most people forget that this minivan/car hybrid thing even exists. That’s too bad because it is one of the most functional vehicles around. It may seem small but it makes the best use of its interior space. The long wheel base version seats…
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Camping the easy way in an Airstream Classic
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Way back, in 1936 a man named Wally Byam took the badges off a Bowlus trailer and moved the door from the front to the side. He dubbed his rolling hotel the Airstream Clipper. Little did Wally know that 80 years later, his company would only have grown stronger or that I’d be exploding the…
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Hooniverse Asks: What's the greatest car model name of all time?
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Recently, we found out that Audi is adding more numbers to its already alphanumeric naming scheme. This is, we believe, unnecessary. Here in the Hooniverse, we’ve never loved the alphabet soup that’s taken over the model names for most vehicles out there today. It’s nearly meaningless letters and numbers that are supposed to instill some…
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The Carchive: The 1980 Dodge Imports
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Our last visit to The Carchive took us to mid-sixties Luton, where the Vauxhall Viva veritably glistened with all the trappings of mid ’60s British austerity, providing a striking contrast from the American iron we’ve looked at over the last couple of weeks. We’re heading back Stateside today… or are we? This 1980 Dodge Imports…
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The News for August 25th, 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: From California to Portofino, Ferrari’s new open-top GT car is here Ariel is set to produce EV…
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Hooniverse Asks: Have you ever broken a part simply by trying to use it?
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That warning label above is attached to a bit of glass. It used to be a lot more glass all working together to be a window. I didn’t heed the warning, as I just tried to open the window normally. It exploded outward, leaving a healthy hole in the side of a borrowed Airstream Classic…
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Jeep pickup "officially" named Scrambler; images revealed and details confirmed
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This will come as a surprise to almost nobody, but new reports are confirming that Jeep has decided to give the upcoming Wrangler-based pickup a nostalgic name from the company’s past: Scrambler. Details of Jeep’s decision to use the heritage-embodying name have been leaked to JLWranglerForums, and deliver on the goods not just in nameplate…
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Ken Block takes to the dirt in Terrrakhana
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The Ken Block-Gymkhana formula has been running for quite a few years now. You take Mr. Block, place him in a high-powered machine, and let him loose on some manner of automotive playground. Lately it’s an entire city but it also used to be a warehouse or some sort of derelict compound. Now the Hoonigan…
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These Mecum Monterey lots were the highest no-sales
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Pebble Beach in Monterey, California is paradise for car fans in the third week of August. One of the highlights is the multiple cars auctions. The Mecum Collector Car Auction had a large list of great cars this year. But instead of looking at the top sales, we look at the no sales. So below we’re presenting the…
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The False Neutral #68: A Chat With Chris Jonnum
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Chris Jonnom is a veteran of the motorcycle industry, he’s been a journalist, the editor of Road Racer X, the Press Officer for Ducati MotoGP and now heads his own PR Agency working with the Powersports market. Eric catches up with Chris, it’s been some time since they last spoke. They talk about the state…
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Hooniverse Asks: Has brand loyalty come back to bite you?
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Few people have enough first-hand experience with every car brand to be a real expert on what’s really good. We all have our preferences that we’ve built through our limited experiences, so we all suffer from some degree of bias. Your family’s a Honda family. Or your first car was a Saturn, and it took…
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Meet the New Benchmark: the 2018 BMW M5
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While Americans were staring into the sun, BMW unveiled a new generation of one of their brightest stars: the M5. The sixth-generation M5 is pretty much all new from the ground up and it takes the benchmark of performance sedans to new heights with some brand new tech, more power, and some additional weight savings…