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Last Call: Bullet Cat Edition
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Have you ever gone to a car show or Concours d’Elegance and found a car that forever-after just haunted your dreams? A Jaguar D-Type is bewitching enough to have that effect. Trust me, I know. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking…
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Light Green Light Resto: 1971 Toyota Corona Mark II
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Driving through an industrial district earlier today, I spotted this light green Toyota Corona Mark II. It seemed to be a bit of a project, but available information told me it was actually road legal last week, likely needing a little fettling to pass inspection. That’s most likely why it was parked next to a…
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Porsche is actually doing it – the Panamera Sport Turismo is real
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It was almost five years ago now when Porsche first teased us with the idea of a Panamera wagon. That was with the Sport Turismo concept which looked far better than the actual Panamera at the time. As it turns out, that concept wasn’t just giving us an idea of how a future Panamera wagon…
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The DFL Show: Episode 42 – Daytona Fivehunnert Life
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This week on the DFL Show, we have Eric, Pat, Joel, and Brad sitting close to the mics to discuss the racing and racing news that went on this week. Brad is recently returned from Florida where he attended the Daytona 500 mile race. Joel went to an Aussie rallycross competition over the weekend and…
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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 model of car was involved in the accident that inspired John Lennon to write A Day in the Life, which contained…
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The Chevy Ad Campaign Parodies We All Wish We Could Make: 'Oh, I hate you.'
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Chevy’s ad campaigns of late—plastered all over television and streaming services—feature focus groups of “not actors” being frightened by an aluminum bear cage, trying to identify a Chevy Malibu, and/or describing a Chevy Cruze. They’re all painfully stupid if you’re a car person—Yes, Chevy will build aluminum trucks before too long and no, a debadged Malibu…
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Hooniverse Asks: Does Mitsubishi Need a New Sports Car?
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A few days ago while aimlessly swiping down through my Instagram, I saw a post from Mitsubishi with a teaser shot of an upcoming cross-over called the Eclipse Cross. Cool, I thought, already being a big fan of Mitsu’s Outlander Sport, which I piloted across all five mysterious National Parks in Utah a year ago.…
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Last Call: Feeling a Little Blue Edition
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Maybe you could cheer it up by putting it on a silver car. 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: Imgur
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VIDEO – Australian Rallycross incar
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There is denying that the sport of Rallycross is popular, with Global Rallycross and World Rallycross being two of the biggest Championship currently. In Australia, which already loves the sport of Rally, Rallycross has had a couple of false starts of late. But that is all about to change.
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Acura Shows Off Their New NSX GT3 Liveries For Pirelli World Challenge
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Clap it out for the orange “squircles”. Realtime Racing and Acura have now officially launched their 2017 Pirelli World Challenge GT class liveries for drivers Peter Kox and Ryan Eversley. each car features orange accented mirrors, hood outlet, brake duct inlets, canards, and wheel nuts on a gradient white/grey/dark grey/blue livery that is reversed from…
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The Daytona 500 Travelogue Experience
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Being completely frank, I have not watched a NASCAR event in years. I think the last full Daytona 500 I watched on television was the 2011 event when Trevor Bayne won for the Wood Brothers. I had grown impatient with the constant yellow flags and contrived Green/White/Checker finishes and had begun to find Waltrip’s race call…
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Podcast: Episode 192 – Hustling along with Andrew Collins in an Aston Martin DB11
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Andrew Collins is the freshly minted Reviews Editor of Jalopnik.com. He and I happened to be attending the same wave for the US launch of the new Aston Martin DB11. I took the opportunity to fire up the podcast-o-motron and record a new episode. This takes place while we’re driving the DB11 through the curvy…
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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. Last week we went looking for the best deals in Lincolns the classifieds had to offer. That’s a big order as unlike Cadillac, Lincoln has never made any really small cars. We’ll see what turned up…
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Hooniverse Asks: What’s History's Weirdest Car Dealership Mascot?
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Cal Worthington is perhaps the Los Angeles area’s most famous car dealer personality. His schtick—having dealerships open until all hours of the night, lots of TV spots targeted at insomniacs, and his own theme song (go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal…)—cemented the Stetson-wearing salesman’s place in the pantheon of local color. One…
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Last Call: Insane Clown Posse Edition
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It recently struck me as I passed one going down the street—the white Toyota 4Runner SR5 TRD Pro is the official car of Juggalos. 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: PBS.org
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The production-ready Alpine A110 is ready to steal your heart
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One of the most exciting stories we’ve been following over the last year or two is the revival of Alpine road cars and one of their most iconic nameplates. A few design studies and concepts have been revealed along the way, but today the Renault-owned manufacturer released the first two images of the A110 that…