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The News for August 4th, 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: Aston Martin shows off new Vantage (sort of) Toyota and Mazda enter new business and capital alliance…
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Project Car SOTU UK Edition: Nothing to see here
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Three cars belong to my household. There’s the Audi A4 1.8T, a car with a reputation for a serious appetite for suspension ball joints and ignition coilpacks. Then there’s a ’95 Peugeot 306, which has the multiple afflictions of being French, old and worthless. And pride of the fleet is our Rover 800, widely regarded…
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The DFL Show: Episode 62 – WEC Is In Deep Shit
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Eric, Pat, and Joel are around to discuss this week’s motorsport news goings on. Randy Lanier had a heart attack, and you can help him out by giving to his crowd funding page. Check our Facebook page for the link. F1 was a crazy display, Formula E season ender in Montreal, Indy/PWC at Mid O,…
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Project Car SOTU: The Benz
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This year I added a new machine to my stable. I use the term stable loosely, because there’s not that much in there, and also I don’t own any horses. This is my 1974 Mercedes-Benz 280. It’s a w114 Benz, and it’s thankfully not saddled with a diesel engine. Instead, it gets the delightful inline-six…
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Toyota takes the 86 into Pirelli World Challenge
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Last time I reviewed the Subaru BRZ I said that I would want nothing more than it, or its Toyota 86 sibling, with a gutted interior and a roll cage for my track weekends. Toyota must have read that review and said “Kamil is right, we should race the 86! 86 buyers do a ton…
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Quick Spin: 2017 Ford Shelby GT350R Mustang
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It’s fucking amazing. That is all you need to know about the GT350R. It’s not perfect, nothing is, but it is amazing. It looks purposeful but not tacky. It’s really fast and it’s properly loud. It stops well and handles wonderfully. It’s cliche to say, but it is a race car for the streets and…
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Project Car SOTU: (Hopefully) Brief Ownership of an AW11
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Chris, a co-worker at my day job, teased me for two years with the possibility that he’d sell his MR2. It had been in his family since new, first bought in 1986 by his uncle and handed down to his brother and himself later on. It was a car they enjoyed during their college years,…
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Project Car SOTU 2017: Hoon Truck Jr.
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[Working project title] It’s barely been two months since I took ownership of the 2002 Ford F-150 I call a childhood hero, so this isn’t going to be as big of a Project Car State of the Union update as some of the other guys here will have. I formally introduced it back in June…
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Podcast: Episode 211 – Automotive Conduct with Ezekiel Wheeler
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Our friend Ezekiel Wheeler comes by the show to talk about his fresh take on the car show. It’s a pop-up deal that happens every so often, and there are five featured cars for folks to check out and learn about from their respective owners. We’ve also got the Audi TT-RS and RS3 to chat…
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Project Car SOTU: Justy Little Compression Test
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It’s been about 2.5 years since I first tested compression on my Justy project car’s three cylinders. That was when I found out it was running on only two of them. Adjusting the valves made it a little better, but it still needed not only a valve job, but a full rebuild. Now that the…
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Project Car SOTU: Stormtrooper 4Runner
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There must be some unwritten rule, something of a taboo, about not thinking positively about a project vehicle while in its presence. It’s almost like the car, or truck, knows when your brain inwardly speaks well of it and, as if it has a special sense, proceeds on its own accord to kick you…
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Project Car SOTU 2017: Welcome to our misery
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It’s that time once again… Welcome to Project Car SOTU 2017. For those of you just joining us, this is where we’re going to take the next week or so and give you updates on all of the various project cars that appear on the pages of Hooniverse. It’s our State of the Union. We’ve got…
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Shift Happens: The HoonTruck gets a little love
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Shift Happens. It’s time for an update on my 1965 Ford F100. She was at a local shop here in Orange County, and while there they got her running better than she has in awhile. Also, the HoonTruck has fresh front glass and dual electric cooling fans. No more mechanical fan, and no more pitted…
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Ray Evernham just built the best "old" Plymouth out there
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A 1964 Plymouth Belvedere is a cool enough car. They only made the 5th-gen cars for a few years, but you could option them with a 383 under the hood. That’s what Ray Evernham has done here… sort of. He’s taken a ’64 Belvedere body, and dropped it on an actual NASCAR chassis. This chassis…
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Hooniverse Asks: What was your biggest automotive false alarm?
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I was replacing oil cooler hoses on my AW11 Toyota MR2 this weekend. They were original, and after 31 years near hot exhaust and in a hot engine bay, they had started to leak. The job’s a bit fussy and requires that you’re flexible enough to shove your head in your own ass, but it’s…
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Death Valley Torture Test: Three New Pickups, Shocking Failures
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Dan Edmunds, who coincidentally works at Edmunds.com but has no other relation to the company that happens to have the same name, to me one is of most interesting automotive experts in the industry. His approach to discussing how things, especially suspension things, work is much more detail orientated than anyone else. Some years ago…