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Hooniverse Reviews: Assetto Corsa "Ready to Race" Pack
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A new DLC pack for Assetto Corsa just dropped on Steam with a healthy dose of race car goodness. The “Ready to Race” car pack includes ten cars – only one of which is road legal – to fill in some of the gaps in their existing car lineup and finally bring in some fan favorites. Prototypes,…
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What makes it go… and don't say ask a mechanic
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That is the opening line to the 1973 film What’s Under Your Hood?. For some, the space under the hood of a car is a mystery zone where all you know is that air and fuel turn into fire and then your wheels turn. Actually, if you know that little bit there, you’re probably in better…
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Because it's Monday: Let's Gear Up
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The reason I’m comfortable with having Hagerty as an insurer is because they really seem to get what the whole old car experience is all about. (Full disclosure: I insure my old cars through Hagerty, but they don’t pay me shit to link to their videos, I just think they’re stinkin’ cool.) Here we have…
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Cars from Smokey and the Bandit reimagined for 40th anniversary
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It’s been forty years since the original Smokey and the Bandit premiered. That seems like a crazy long amount of time, longer than many of us have been around. This is why for so many of us Smokey and the Bandit, possibly Cannonball too, may just have been the movie that made kiddo us fall in…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Ad Campaign Made its Marque?
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Let’s think a minute about advertisements. You remember those, they’re the things you’re using an ad blocker not to have to look at on Web sites right now. At one point in time, ad campaigns for cars established or enhanced the personality of that marque, sometimes it even rejuvenated it. Today we want your opinion…
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Last Call: The Last Whimsy Edition
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While he did assume a controlling interest in the extremely lucrative candy enterprise, Charlie ultimately had to turn down Willy Wonka’s offer to move to the factory grounds as the CEO’s house had but only a one car garage, and Charlie was planning to use his new-found fortune to amass a huge collection of epic…
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The Carchive: 1975 Ford Pinto
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What could be more fun than perusing a forty-two year-old brochure for a really excellent, broadly celebrated automobile of class and distinction? Why, reading a forty-two year-old brochure for a car that’s widely panned as an example of automotive mediocrity from the least lamented era of all time, of course. It’s the Ford Pinto. This…
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Friday Fun: Four-by-four, by four
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In last week’s Friday Fun we explored the Forbidden Fruits that taunt our wildest automotive dreams, exploring the parts of our imagination where the cars unavailable to us become accessible at the touch of our fingertips. And since all of my choices were street-oriented, this week we’re going to look at the exact opposite end of…
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The News for May 19th, 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: Shelby American reveals a Super Snake for road courses and some expensive truck Jaguar teases XF Sportbrake again…
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Mystery Car
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Today is a day of historical note as it was on this date in 1539 that Henry the VIII had his wife, Anne Boleyn beheaded after she was found guilty of a number of serious, and wholly trumpeted up charges. Let’s hope that you don’t lose your head trying to solve this week’s Mystery Car.…
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Quick Spin: 2014 Nissan 370Z – long in the tooth but surprisingly great
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People talk a lot of shit about the Nissan 370Z. It relies on an antiquated powertrain, doesn’t boast any of the tech that do the current crop of offerings, and it sits on a platform that’s going on a decade old. Not that it ever lit the world on fire when it was new, the…
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Hooniverse Asks: What was Your High School “Jock Ride?”
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My wife has a friend whose husband is a total “Chad.” He exhibited his Chad-ness recently by responding on his wife’s Facebook to one of his wife’s friends with the bitter complaint that she shouldn’t feel empowered just because she is gay. Total Chad move. On the plus side, hearing about this dick move set me to thinking.…
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Last Call: Real Instruments Edition
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One of the 1958 Corvette’s touted features was a bank of “real instruments” and sure enough the dash was redesigned that year to place the dials front and center before the driver rather than strewn willy-nilly. Add to that an available fuel injected V8 and the Corvette was well on its way from cruiser to bruiser.…
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Quick Pic: a Naked Escort is Coming
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This is a rather poor picture of a classic Ford Escort MKII. It is somewhat incomplete. It is slightly modified. And it is on it’s way over from the UK to our friends at Ace Performance Systems. Ace Performance has some very cool plans for this MKII. It will be a lot more than…
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24 Hours of LeMons Preview: 'Vodden the Hell Are We Doing?' at Thunderhill
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The 24 Hours of LeMons doesn’t really celebrate its own history much, but December 2017 will mark the 10th anniversary of the series’ first race on a Real Road Course™. That was the first Arse-Freeze-Apalooza at Thunderhill Raceway with chicanes on the front straight to keep top speeds down. The series has grown and changed…
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Thursday Trivia
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Welcome to Thursday Trivia where we offer up a historical automotive trivia question and you try and solve it before seeing the answer after the jump. It’s like a history test, with cars! This week’s question: What was the design feature of Hot Wheels’ Ramblin’ Wrecker that caused its creator, Larry Woods such grief? If you think…