Articles
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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 oldest new cars the classifieds can offer. Just like fish and guests some cars stay around stinking up a dealership since nobody else seems to want them. We’ll…
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Hooniverse Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Into The Wrong Car Thinking It Was Yours?
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Okay, so this happened to a work friend of my wife’s years ago when she was cashiering at a grocery store. Her friend walked out to his car after having finished his shift. It was dark by then and he was a bit beat from having put in his daily eight. He got in his Mazda…
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Last Call: Snoopy vs. the Red Baron Edition
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Two wheeling with a best friend is great, doing so with a best friend that can engage attacking enemy biplanes is even better. 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: fiski.net
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Aston Martin Shows F1 Pride with Red Bull Racing Edition Vantage
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Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing have been enjoying an “innovation partnership” for the last few years, and quite frankly, so have we. While the once dominant F1 team isn’t racing with V12s and British Racing Green paint in competition (though it would be cool), their best minds did come together to create the AM-RB…
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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 lot of bends. Good luck! Since no one managed to identify last week’s track the answer may be found here. Image: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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False Neutral #47: Geeking Out on Two-Strokes
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Despite the lede image, we only say a couple of words about the Alpha BMW …but it was too cool a shot not to include! Mark Atkinson is back as our guest this week, at his suggestion. We delve into the dying star that is the two-stroke motorcycle world, discussing everything from porting specs…
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Hooniverse Asks: What’s the Funniest Family Car Name?
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The badge on the boot lid of the 1962-70 Iso Rivolta IR300/340 is, like every other aspect of the car, a thing of beauty. A chrome finished casting made up of two different but decidedly complementary scripts—a heavier italicized cursive for the Iso and a more delicate, almost art deco extrusion for the Rivolta—could be hung…
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Last Call: Drunk Decisions Edition
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There’s only one acceptable explanation for having bought an old Range Rover… 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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Our Cars: 1995 Peugeot 306. Overcoming a failure to proceed.
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On Friday I was forced to walk some two hundred yards when our venerable Peugeot 306 threw up a variety of warning lights on the dashboard, accompanied by a loss of power. My wife was returning from a trip to visit her parents, and had almost, almost made it home when the car faltered. She…
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Because it's Monday: Let's Watch Motorweek's Pat Goss Go Rollerskating
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The Maxton Rollerskate was the brainchild of Bob Sutherland, the owner of a chain of lumber yards in Colorado, and organizer of the Colorado Grand vintage road rally. Assembling a team—which included auto designer Michael Mate, SCCA race car engineer Ben van der Linden, and suspension builder, Garry Valler—Sutherland set out to build a modern…
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Race, Daily, Restore: Modern Pentathletes
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Five cylinder engines were once an oddity. Over the last quarter of the Twentieth century, they became fairly common, especially in European cars. Today we ponder the merits of this middle ground between fours and sixes. Your trio of candidates, in no particular order, are: 1993 Volvo 850 Turbo – 2.4L Turbo I-5, 168 hp…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Car Maker is a One-Hit Wonder For You?
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First off, let me apologize for the image of Robert Matthew Van Winkle up there. I know that may trigger some musical PTSDs for some people. I thought it was worth it however, to exemplify the musical genre that we want to extend today to the automotive world, that being one-hit wonders. If you’re a fan…
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Last Call: And a Card In The Spokes? Edition
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I don’t know about you, but the last thing I want to hear my pilot say over the intercom is “weeeeeeeee!” 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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Economy for the single Gent: The Monthléry Peugeot 404.
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Taking time out from investigating the strange goings on with my wife’s venerable Peugeot 306, I found myself thinking back to other celebrated cars from the life of the Lion that goes from strength to strength. I encountered one such machine up close and personal at the Goodwood Festival of Speed back in 2015, so…
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Friday Fun: $100k Challenge
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It’s a theoretical that, as an enthusiast, is among the most fun things to ponder: one-hundred thousand dollars magically appear in your bank account, and the car fairy says you have to spend it all on cars and car-related activities. Pretty freakin’ ideal, right? That hundred-k goes a long way though, longer than you think, leaving…
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The News for February 17th, 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: Ferrari replaces F12 with new V12-powered monster with appropriate name Pagani reveals advanced Huayra Roadster after nearly…