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Review: 2017 Honda CR-V Touring AWD
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This is the all-new fifth generation 2017 Honda CR-V. Yes, it is all-new, as per Honda, but you wouldn’t necessarily know this by looking at it. In my eyes it simply looks too similar to the 2016 model to be called all-new, but it is. One would know that this is an all-new vehicle by simply driving it.…
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Podcast: Episode 204 – Before your Civic duty
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I’m sitting in a hotel room in Marina Del Rey and tomorrow I’m going to drive the new Honda Civic Si. Before that happens, let’s talk about some other cars. Recently I went to Canada to test Audi’s new SQ5 and it was really good. I’m trying to decide what to do with the 1974…
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Craigslist Crapshoot
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Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer. If you were born in the U.S. you are automatically American. Every time you go to the bathroom however, Yur-a-peein.’ Oh man I love that joke, but not half as much as I…
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Speed Reads: Classic Sports Cars by Cyril Posthumus
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More than three years ago, I reviewed an old library copy of Cyril Posthumus’ Classic Racing Cars. I forgot a lot almost immediately after reading that book, but I remembered three things I read in that book that surprised the hell out of me: (1) Peugeot built a twin-overhead cam engine more than 100 years…
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Hooniverse Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Screwed Over at a Car Show?
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I have served as a Concours d’Elegance judge at a number of events across Souther California, but there’s one event where I will never judge again. That’s the San Marino Motor Classic, a young event just celebrating its fourth anniversary this year. Youth doesn’t excuse the incredibly poorly handled trophying system that took place a couple of years ago however, and…
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Last Call: For What It's Girth Edition
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If you’re like me then you probably still have the scar on the soft inside of your ankle from where you once drove your foot down to extend the kickstand on your Schwinn only to miss by a hair and have it make a nice gouge down the side of your foot. Yep, that’ll scab up…
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Quick Pic: Aussie Classic Ford Muscle
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Quick Camera phone shot from behind the scenes of my photo shoot during the week of Four Classic 70’s Aussie Ford Falcons. Enjoy Ford Fans….
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First Drive: 2018 Audi SQ5
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Take one part Audi S4 and S5 powertrain. Mix that with a bit of Q5 body work. What do you have? A surprisingly good fat wagon that goes by the name of 2018 Audi SQ5. There’s over 350 horsepower on tap. An optional rear sport differential makes sure the power is applied purposefully. An optional…
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2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon starts at $84,995
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The manufacturer suggested retail price for the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon $84,995. We should say only $84,995. That is the price for the highest horsepower V8 production car engine ever produced, a car that can do a damn wheelie and run the quarter mile in just over nine seconds. And the damn thing comes with a three-year/36,000-mile warranty…
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LEGO Technic Porsche 911 GT3 RS Crash Test
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There is something about crash test videos that makes us watch them over and over again. It’s probably that whole watching-a-train-wreck thing that is oddly satisfying, somewhat saddening, and filled with anticipation. Some crash tests are scary and others show the incredible strength of the passenger cell and the energy absorbing properties of everything else. Chances are…
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Track Tuesday: Name That Track
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Welcome to Track Tuesday where you are asked to identify a (maybe) famous race or test track from just one closely-cropped aerial image. This week, it’s a snippet. Good luck! Image: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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Nicky Hayden: The Passing Of A True Champion
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Happiness is the exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope. The test of a persons character is not how they act to others when things are going well, but when they aren’t. In the outpouring of messages on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram yesterday with the news of Nicky…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Other Mistakes Do You Think Ford is Making?
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Late Sunday night Ford Motor Company announced that the company was parting ways with its CEO and former mullet-sporter Mark Fields. The corporate line is that Fields retired, but everyone knows that’s bullshite. One has to wonder if he got to keep the little Ford emblem lapel pin, and whether or not his order for…
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Last Call: Choose Wisely Edition
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Most Millennials won’t get this joke. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking is not only accepted, it’s encouraged. Image: Pinterest
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What's the most special special edition?
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‘Special edition’ can mean many, many things, and just how special they are tends to depend on whether we’re looking at a supercar or a shopping car. The Bugatti Veyron Vitesse SE, for example, was conceived to give the ultra rich a reason to buy another Veyron that’s somehow more special than the bog-standard version…
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850hp Group B Audi Quattro enjoys devouring tarmac
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The Group B cars remain legendary machines to this day. You don’t see them in action like you used to, but there are places where they remain the active fire-breathing monsters that we all remember. One of those places is on a hillclimb course, and that’s where we find this amazing specimen. According to the…