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24 Hours of Lemons: The Buick will roll with The Real Hoopties of New Jersey
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We are ready-ish to race! The 24 Hours of Lemons The Real Hoopties of New Jersey is this weekend at the New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, New Jersey! Last time we were equally ready but then we blew some gaskets, so hopefully we are now more ready but who the hell knows what sort of disaster…
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Can a rally driver become a drifter?
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Can a rally driver jump into a drift car and give it a go? Will the learned skills honed on gravel, snow, and tarmac transfer when you’re behind the wheel of a beat-to-hell Nissan 240SX? If you’re My Life As A Rallyist’s Ryan Symancek, then the answer is a smoky smooth yes. Ryan trekked down…
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Night School: Episode 4 – Exhaust
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You’ve met the truck. We’ve swapped out the bad clutch for a fresh unit from Centerforce. The camshaft and valve seals have been replaced. Now? It’s time to bring the noise. On this episode of Valvoline’s Night School, we’re ditching the glasspack setup that’s on the truck now for a clean bit of plumbing courtesy…
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Sampling 2004 Pontiac GTO: Is my Australian dream car any good?
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The Pontiac GTO was the unloved bastard child of the muscle car resurgence of the 2000s. You don’t have to be an automotive designer to know the styling pushed the wrong buttons, leaving the LS1 engine to write checks the Holden-derived body couldn’t cash. That didn’t stop me from wanting one though. For reasons I’ll…
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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 double apex with some green runoff. Good luck! And since nobody seemed to get last week’s track, here’s the answer. Image: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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False Neutral #57: The Six Grand Solution
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After revisiting a couple of old topics (The TMax’s odd engine, the Vitpilen 401’s long gestation period, and our dashed hopes for the new Harley Street Rod), we discuss Garrett’s stable of bikes, which is suddenly smaller, and his reserve cash, which is commensurately larger. The three of us put our heads together to come…
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Hooniverse Asks: Car Swag—Brah! or Blah?
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Back when he was staring in Smokey and the Bandit we all thought Burt Reynolds was the coolest of the cool. Today, even the coolest can’t make that screaming chicken Bandit windbreaker look like anything other than what it really is: cheesy. In fact, there are very few car-brand items of clothing or accessories that…
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Last Call: All the Wings Edition
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How many Ferrari F40s do you need in one place to be happy? Would three of them suffice? 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: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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V.I.S.O.R: A Czech military toybox
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I bet you’re the same. I can’t just sit and watch the scenery pass me by if I’m on a train in a foreign land, I’m constantly scanning the vista for interesting things as I hurtle past. On the very impressive Railjet between Prague and Vienna, I happened to have my camera on standby, together…
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I Finally Drove A Porsche
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Have you ever seen a movie that your friends had over-hyped to such degree that there was no way it could possibly match your expectations? Well, that’s a bit how I feel. At 54 years old, I finally got to drive a Porsche for the first time* last night. The car in question was a…
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Rotten Rental Car Review: Dodge Journey
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The small people-hauler didn’t die with the Mazda5. It got restyled into an SUV, and as a result, lost a substantial amount of its utility in the conversion. This is what’s left of the affordable minivan market, and it’s a dismal place to be.
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Because it's Monday: Let's Contemplate the Tiny Alternator on Jay Leno's Daimler SP250
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The best way to get Jay Leno to show up at your car show is to hold the event close enough to his Burbank, California shop that the car needn’t come up to heat to get there. That wasn’t quite the case with the recent Queen’s English car show where Jay brought his Daimler SP250…
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Quick Pic: Hot Lap; Hot Car
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Well, as apart of this AAP Sports car showdown weekend, Mercedes was nice enough to grant me a passenger lap in this beautiful AMG GT-S. And, since it wasn’t my first rodeo in the side seat of a supercar around the track, my driver, AJ, decided to light them up wherever he could to give…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Piece of Car Advice Do You Wish You Had Gotten Sooner?
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They say that hindsight is 20/20, and for the longest time I thought that meant it was okay to look at sexy butts. I now know that it means to learn from your mistakes, but honestly who of us would rather not make those mistakes in the first place? When it comes to spending the kind…
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Last Call: Ruiner Edition
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The Stator stand-up EV scooter: wicked cool concept, already ruined by hipster association. 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: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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2017 Volkswagen Golf GTI: The Gray Man’s Hot Hatch
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What is a “gray man”? Urban Dictionary says, “A man who can blend in to any scene or situation without standing out, hiding his skills and qualities” OK, the red GTI that I had in for the week isn’t exactly subtle, but take off the minimal badging ( badges, we don’t need no stinkin’ badges)…