Articles
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Lamborghini's Ultimate Huracán is Here – Say Hello to the Performante
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Lamborghini’s long-awaited high(er)-performance Huracán has finally broken cover at the Genva Motor Show today. It’s probably the first of many super sports cars based on the successful Huracán coupe and with an *alleged* Nürburgring lap time of 6:52, it’s probably faster than any of its V10 or V12-powered predecessors as well. The formula for the Huracán…
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Quick Spin: Getting the Nissan Armada dirty
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It’s finally been raining here in Southern California. I took that as an opportunity to go play in the mud, and I did so with the updated Nissan Armada. No, it’s not the full-on Patrol I was hoping it would be but it’s better than the Armada that we used to get. Still, it would…
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An Afternoon with Dennis Collins: Part One – Building Jeeps and Setting World Records
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As my photographer Javier and I waited anxiously outside of Collins Brothers Jeep for Dennis Collins to arrive, I couldn’t help but feel a flurry of nervousness. In my experience as a journalist I’ve been able to meet some incredible people and drive some incredible cars, but I’ve never had the experience of spending…
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Because it's Monday: Let's Watch This Couple Restore Their VW Type 2 Camper
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It’s fun to watch people who know what they’re doing take on fun and challenging projects. It’s sometimes more fun to watch inexperienced folks try to do the same thing. This pair of videos (the second is after the jump) is by a couple of bloggers who are documenting their attempt to bring an early…
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Race, Daily, Restore: Economy Spec Oddballs
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The progression from base model to top-of-the-line is usually quite logical and linear, wherein every model adds desirable content in an additive progression. But every once in a while manufacturers (or customers) take crazy pills and concoct specialized models that are, um, not so special. Oddball, low-power, decontented editions rarely sell in large numbers, or…
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Hooniverse Asks: Do You Tint Your Windows?
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The sun: life giver, tan-line maker, afternoon squint inducer, it’s literally the center of our universe, or at least our soar system. The thing is, the sun really doesn’t like car interiors. For years car makers have strived to make interiors out of materials that will stand up to daily exposure to things like the…
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Frozen Wastes Weekend Edition: Opel Omega 3000
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On the other side of the town from the Bonneville-hosting junkyard, I found this black Opel Omega. A-body Omegas have been vanishing for a long time, as the B-bodies have fared better – though not without their share of rusty body panels. This wasn’t even a completely ordinary Omega, but a high-spec Omega 3000, meaning…
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Frozen Wastes Weekend Edition: Pontiac Bonneville SSE
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I took the Polo out today for a drive around the industrial districts. Snow had fallen a couple days ago, mercifully covering much of all the beaten and broken cars strewn around the junkyards. But as I turned the corner and saw this Pontiac Bonneville, I felt like I had hit the jackpot when it…
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Last Call: Autographic Edition
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The modern Mini may still have a John Cooper “Works” edition, and that is pretty cool. It will never however, be as cool as an old school Mini Cooper with John Cooper’s own autograph stylized on a stripe on the hood. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an…
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The Carchive: The E23 BMW 7 Series – In Art
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It’s Friday night, and time for our (sometimes) weekly trip on the rusty, buckled monorail of discovery, into the bleak, architecturally suspect neighbourhood of the past to see what kind of souvenirs you can get from the dank, litter strewn terminus of oblivion. Welcome back to The Carchive. Car brochures are great! I really like…
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Opinion: Your Vape Pen Went Through My Tire And You're A Nitwit
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I’m not always an angry human being, but after getting raked over the coals to have a fuel pump replaced in my wife’s 2011 Chevy Malibu 10 days ago, I was less than enthused to run over some knob’s errant vape pen with the same Malibu on Wednesday evening. What was normally a four-minute drive to…
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The News for March 3rd, 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: Land Rover debuts new Velar to expand Range Rover line Chevrolet combines ZL1 and 1LE for a…
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Mystery Car
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Welcome to our weekly Mystery Car contest, this week brought to you by the letter J and the number 7. No wait, that’s Sesame Street. We don’t actually have anybody sponsoring the Mystery Car and that’s a mystery to me. Oh well, enjoy it until we sell out. Make and model if you please. Image:…
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 136 – Take A Leak W/ Kevin McCauley
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Our biggest regret as a podcast is that our audio files didn’t save properly the last time Kevin was a guest on the show. Back forty episodes ago or so, we had a great discussion with Kevin for about 2 hours, and we could only recover about 20 minutes of the audio to present to…
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 136 – Take A Leak W/ Kevin McCauley
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Our biggest regret as a podcast is that our audio files didn’t save properly the last time Kevin was a guest on the show. Back forty episodes ago or so, we had a great discussion with Kevin for about 2 hours, and we could only recover about 20 minutes of the audio to present to…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Size Car Do You Think is Too Big to be a Stick?
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See that BMW up there? That’s an E38 740i that I featured on NPOCP over on Jalopnik a week ago. It’s one of the biggest cars that BMW has ever made and it has been converted to a stick shift. That got me thinking, as many things are wont to do, that maybe there’s a…