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Last Call: Inception Garage Edition
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If I lived in this house I would do all my car work out in the driveway. I’m not sure what might use that door in the ceiling but I sure as hell wouldn’t want to find out. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for…
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Screaming hill climb monsters are the best kind of monsters
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Even if they’re not mighty big machines, hill climb beasties are the stuff of legend and nightmare. Take, for example, this delightful MkI Volkswagen Golf. It’s 1.6-liter engine makes 250 horsepower and spins to 10,600 rpm. It sounds purposefully evil and looks right at home tearing up this hill climb course.
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Episode 2 of Corbin's Hit Show is ready for your eye holes
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It’s time for episode 2 of Corbin and Michael’s misadventures in the world of the automobile. This time we’re wrapping things up as the pair have wrangled a new EcoBoost Mustang to see how it compares to their modified SVO Mustang. There was some cutting of things. Parts were sourced from Home Depot. It doesn’t…
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First Drive: Acura Makes A Case For Sport Hybrids In The New MDX
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Three rows of seats and four motors to propel them, this 330 horsepower sport ute is a reasonably economical way to transport six in luxury. The MDX has been around for three generations now, and this one (the YD3) was introduced in 2014. For 2017 the car has received a styling refresh to get rid…
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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: In the early 1950s Ford F-100 pickups with eight-cylinder engines carried a V-8 emblem in the middle of their grille. What…
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The DFL Show: Episode 48 – Delete Your Account
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This week on the DFL Show, Brad went to Long Beach, Stef drove a Formula E car. Joel has been stupid busy with things, Eric has things to say, and Pat rants at some stuff. This one went a little long, and we lost Joel for the final few minutes during the awards ceremony, but…
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Hooniverse Asks: Why Is the El Camino More Venerated Than the Ranchero?
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Let’s just get this out of the way, the first pickup trucks were car-based and that makes the Chevy El Camino and Ford Ranchero the defacto inheritors of the form’s traditional lineage. Today, Ford’s F-series trucks may claim the title of best-selling vehicle in the U.S., but that proprietary pickup platform didn’t even arrive until…
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Last Call: Quit Loafing Around Edition
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This is just how I imagine artisanal breads should be delivered the world round—in the back a well-worn and homey Renault R4 van. 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: Hanger.Amsterdam
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SO, do we actually want Automotive Autonomy?
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Autonomous cars are gradually lurching closer to being a reality. Pretty soon kind of cars that mortal man can dare to aspire to will soon have an automatic pilot that runs beyond a simple cruise control. But what do you – the folk who will be sharing your roads with robots – really think? Personally,…
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Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Wheelies into New York
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Finally, after months of cryptic teaser videos that looked to be created by the head of the Nickelback fan club’s teenager, Dodge introduced a car so powerful and so quick that only the old “Demon” name could do it justice. The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is a limited-run muscle car that can attack the drag strip like nothing…
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Podcast: Episode 198 – A Hit Show? w/ Corbin Goodwin and Michael Elterman
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Corbin Goodwin and Michael Elterman are the hosts of a new show called Corbin’S Hit Show. You should watch it because it’s hilarious. We invited the pair onto the podcast to chat about the show, and some other topics that pop up including the Corbin’s RX-7 and Rolls-Royce Drift Car, and Michael’s LS-swapped Fox Body…
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One Camera, One Map, and Two Turbos: Pt. 1 Castle Point, NZ
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In the middle of 2015, I took a six month contract job in New Zealand. Was my wife thrilled about it ? No, but we agreed it would be my “semester abroad”, and that I should do my best to not get laid while I was there. I was hired to work for Weta, which…
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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. Wranglers aren’t just jeans, they’re also Jeeps, and that’s what we wen’t looking for last week, Wranglers and CJs, all for under five-grand. We’ll what’s off the road and on the table in…
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Hooniverse Asks: What's History's Greatest Poor People's Car To Have Been Embraced By The Not So Poor?
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Whether it’s the gentrification of a neighborhood down on its luck, or the fancification of what’s generally considered to be “peasant food,” the commandeering of the simple trappings of life by the well to do has long been an annoying industry. Cross-class appropriate even occurs in the automotive world. You may not be completely familiar with the history…
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Last Call: Pontiacs in Australia Edition
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Fun fact: the bumper/grille portion of the 1968 Pontiac Catalina’s nose is reversible! 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: Reddit
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An Afternoon with Dennis Collins – His Collection in His Own WordsPart 2
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This is the second article in a series covering an afternoon long interview with Dennis Collins of CB Jeep, Black Mountain Jeep Parts, and the hit Discovery Channel T.V. series Fast N Loud. Throughout the course of the interview, I was able to ask Mr. Collins about his business, his life story, and most prominently,…