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Last Call: White Knight Edition
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Can a refrigerator white English car steal the limelight from a sea of predominantly red exotic Italians? When it’s the brand new and drop-dead gorgeous Aston Martin DB 11 it sure can. 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…
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How Atlanta's I-85 Nightmare Was Fixed in 42 Days
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Back in March, a bizarre fire took out one of Atlanta’s most important highways during afternoon rush hour. It was the part of I-85 that connects about half of north Georgia to Atlanta and handled an average of 246,000 cars per day in 2016, more than any other individual highway that feeds into the city. The…
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Project Car: The Benz no longer drips fuel
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My 1974 Mercedes-Benz 280 sedan is supposed to be the easy one. The safer one. I don’t know why I thought things would work that way, but I really did. Now I know the folly in this thinking. The other day I noticed a puddle under the rear of the car. Bend down. Sniff. Recoil…
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Monster Ford Escort Cosworth looks at hills and climbs them in rapid fashion
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The Ford Escort Cosworth is a neat little homologation special that arrived from the factory with nearly 230 horsepower. The version you see above has a bit more juice flowing to the wheels. This one here apparently makes 620 horsepower and enjoys being flung up hillclimb routes and nearly into guardrails. Have some more awesome…
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Because it's Monday: Let's See How Close a Ford Granada Really Was to a Mercedes 300SEL
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A lot of people malign American cars from the ’70s, and for good reason. What most people might not realize however is that this was the decade when it hit the Big Three that the concept of both luxury and performance was being redefined by European and Japanese manufacturers. Ships of industry are hard to…
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Start your week with the 1967 Lola T142
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Our brains aren’t working yet. The coffee is brewing. The skies outside are gray. It’s Monday. So to get this week started right, we present to you the 1967 Lola T142. An old Formula 5000 racing machine that roars with joy as it’s pushed hard around Road Atlanta. This is how you start your Monday…
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Hooniverse Asks: Is Ford A Legitimate Super Car Maker?
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With the recently introduced second iteration of the GT, the Ford Motor Company has now offered the car buying public—or at least a very small but wealthy segment of them—the opportunity to own their interpretation of the V8 mid-engine hyper car. Ford’s first dalliance with this sort of high-performance automobile came in the form of the GT40…
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 195 – Highway Miles
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This week we continue our theme of Brad being on his dumb ass long road trip across the country. Cam brings in Tristan Jones, co-host of the Clutchkick Podcast. He’s a great guy, and he recently purchased a Porsche Cayman based on our testimony (don’t worry, he loves it). He dropped by Cam’s house to…
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 195 – Highway Miles
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This week we continue our theme of Brad being on his dumb ass long road trip across the country. Cam brings in Tristan Jones, co-host of the Clutchkick Podcast. He’s a great guy, and he recently purchased a Porsche Cayman based on our testimony (don’t worry, he loves it). He dropped by Cam’s house to…
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Last Call: The Moderns Edition
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If you’re going to live in a cool mid-century modern abode, you simply must also choose to drive the most fashionable of mid-century rear-engine, air-cooled automobiles. 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:…
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Friday Fun: Forbidden Fruit edition
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It’s been a while since we’ve done a Friday Fun. Let’s make it a good one, shall we? Ah, the forbidden fruit. It lingers and teases the mind of every car enthusiast who knows well enough that not all of the best cars in the world make it to their own homeland. But that’s not the…
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Improving the new Toyota Land Cruiser
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I recently reviewed the 2017 Toyota Land Cruiser. While I really liked it, and I would love to own one, but it just wasn’t all it could be for me. To be totally happy with my imaginary Land Cruiser ownership I would have to improve it slightly. Despite the limited U.S. sales of this vehicle, it…
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One Camera, One Map, and Two Turbos: Pt. 2 Cape Palliser, NZ
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Alright, we’ll start off with the elephant in the room first. Those wheels. As noted in Pt. 1, when I bought this car, one of the rims had a crack in it. That cracked rim, after a week of spirited driving, was now leaking air fairly steadily. My search on Trademe.com, local to Wellington, came…
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The News for May 12th, 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: BMW 2 Series gets mid-life refresh Porsche’s one-millionth 911 BMW 8 Series concept teaser and the 6er…
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Mystery Car
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It was 60-years ago today that A.J. Foyt caught his first chequered flag after turning pro, taking the win at a USAC Midget Race in Kansas City Missouri. Let’s see if you can channel A.J. and bring home a win with this week’s Mystery Car contest. Make and model if you feel up to the…
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The Dinan BMW M2 S2 – Making excellent even better
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Dinan keeps crushing it… This is their latest and greatest. It’s the DInan twist on the BMW M2, and it’s twisted in all the right directions. The Dinan M2 S2 adds power, grip, stopping performance, and all of the other metrics that make an enjoyable car that much better. Also, noise. Instead of an M2…