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The False Neutral Episode #63: Garrett's Ride Report
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Garrett is back this week! In this episode, we talk about Harley possibly buying Ducati and Ducati’s next V4 Superbike to replace the current Panigale. Garrett then catches us up on his multi-day ride with his friends and talks about all the things they saw and just missed. Please rate and review our podcast on…
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Everyone Needs A GSX-R VW Bug HotRod
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“It runs, though, don’t it?” is exactly what you’d expect to hear from someone who just ripped through a suburban neighborhood in a tube chassis bug with a high-power superbike engine. Especially when they pull it into a shop that appears to house some kind of tank-treaded hot rod as well. Hudlow Axle is based…
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Parting shots: The Goodwood Car Parks
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It’s fair to say that the attendees of the Goodwood Festival of Speed are a broad church, and nothing better illustrates this than a walk around any of its many, many parking lots – necessary to corral the steeds of 40,000 visitors per day. There’s an allocated supercar parking area, but in many ways the…
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A pair of past MURICA burnouts…
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We like burnouts here. They’re childish, immature, stupid, wasteful, and wonderful. Using the combined power of an engine and brakes, you can create vast clouds of smoke, tremendous noise, and wicked glee. So today I’m presenting two quick clips we created over the last few years as a simple tribute to America Day. Above we…
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Quatre Chevaux: The Citroen 2CV Dakar
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At a time way before the SUV was conceived, the Citroen 2CV provided transport from point A to point B, whether or not your journey enjoyed the convenience of a proper road. Totally excluding Sport from its remit, the 2CV nonetheless excelled as a Utility Vehicle. With its legendary egg-basket cosseting ride, this exceptionally simply…
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Reasons to like the Jaguar XE SV Project 8.
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Like many, I grow tired of the constant flow of ‘most powerful this’ and ‘new Nurburgring record holder’ that. Familiarity breeds contempt, and when there’s a six-figure pricetag involved, such a machine moves straight into the world of ‘might as well not exist’. They do, exist, though, and while essentially irrelevant to the average man…
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Down and dirty with a Group B Ferrari 308
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If you’re of a certain age, any mention of Group B might prick your ears. Ranking high among the most spectacular motorsport machines ever built, Group B rally cars oozed menace, roared deafeningly and spat fire. All this is excellent, but my favorite thing about them is the breathtaking variety in which they came. Take…
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Driving a wedge into your Aston Martin preconceptions.
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It’s most appropriate that the badge of this car’s maker provides instructions on how best to gawp at it. However, Ogle Design has put its name to far more than this flamboyantly angular creation. David Ogle’s design consultancy has shaped many facets of daily life, and also provided Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder in a galaxy far,…
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And now for something completely different: The Ferves Ranger
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Here’s an interesting little curio. This tiny yellow beastie is a Ferves Ranger, built in 1967 by FERVES – a portmanteau of Ferrari Vehicoli Speciali. In production for five years, the Ranger took its mechanical package from the Fiat 500 and 600, something you might have guessed from the car’s miniscule size. I say minuscule,…
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When all you can do is Astonish
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Nuccio Bertone. Clever bloke. He ran a styling company from the end of the second world war until his death in 1997, and his name has been borne by some of the most iconic and exotic cars of all time – along with plenty at the absolute opposite end of the spectrum. The car in…
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A thin line between love and 8?
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So, what do we all think of the BMW 8 Series Concept, then? It’s central to BMW’s courtyard-located showcase at Goodwood, along with a smattering of BMW’s more high-profile coupes and roadsters. There’s a 507 in attendance, and a rather claustrophobically glass-ensconced E31, the last car to bear the 8 Series badge. The car in…
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Delicate sound of thunder: Nick Mason's Ferrari 512 BB/LM
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Yes, that Nick Mason. The man clearly can’t get enough noise in his life. After banging things with sticks for over four decades in epoch-defining kaleidoscopic rock outfit Pink Floyd, he became the lynchpin of “Ten tenths”, a business specializing in supplying the media with some of history’s most iconic and expensive cars. As quoted…
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This is the 2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed
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“Hot oil and thunder, Sound and scent vie to overwhelm Your senses. It’s Goodwood.” An inverted racing car held aloft by sinuous metal tentacles can only mean one thing. It’s that glorious weekend, where the Sussex Downs echo to the sound of vintage motorsport weapons and high-dollar showroom icons alike. The Goodwood Festival of Speed…
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The Carchive: The 1978 Mazda 323
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Think back to a simpler time. A time when the North America was resting between fuel crises, and Japanese imports had really captured the imagination of an increasingly value savvy and reliability-hungry buying public. It was also an era before lifestyle didn’t mean quite what it does now. A look at Mazda’s car range today…
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The News for June 30th, 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 adds crazy AMR Pro kit for the already crazy Vulcan UPDATE: Porsche finally admits 911…
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 206 – Dancing On The Sand
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The original C&T duo are back for this episode. No guest, no filler, just Cam and Brad. Cam got his Stanza (Tony Stanza) up to snuff for a car show, where he won the Judges Choice award (only in Ohio, am I right?). Brad drove down to Los Angeles to help Manuel get his Stork…