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Lunatics on fast bikesor why everyone needs to see MotoGP in person
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JkTb1gC9Zc[/youtube] This was Marc Marquez’s pole lap for this past weekends race at the lovely Circuit of The Americas. COTA is one of two American rounds of the MotoGP championship, and has become a popular destination for both teams and fans. This was the third year that COTA hosted the madmen on two wheels, and…
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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. Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer, go! We all like to go fast, and most of us like to win. Trying to do so can set you back a pretty penny, over and over…
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'97 Acura Integra Type R sells for $43,300
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The ’97-01 US-market Acura Integra Type R. For some it’s an over-hyped Civic. For others, such as me, it is the best front-wheel-drive car ever made. It may also be the best performance value Honda has ever produced. Whatever your opinion is, it is probably the rarest Honda/Acura on American roads. Most have been stolen,…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Car Looks Awesome in Orange?
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Color is a powerful albeit random property. Most of us have a favorite color, hell it’s a go-to question for the unimaginative when trying to make small talk on a first date! The thing of it is, not only is color a very personal taste, it’s also dependent on its host. Car color choices are…
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Last Call: Corvettallac Edition
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After Panther’s 6-wheel car with Cadillac power, I’m beginning to think this might be a trend. 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: Caradisiac Forum
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Exercises in Plasti-Dip: Volkswagen Golf MKIV
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This mud-coloured, completely matte Mark-Four VW Golf has been appearing on this Helsinki street every now and then. I walked for a cheap pizza – one that sadly found its final demise in the hands of my brother after I foolishly planned to save half of it for the next day – and on the…
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Fun and Frolics with a FIAT, sorry, FART 126.
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FART made some of the most iconic small European cars of the second half of the 20th century. The pre-war Toplino or “Little Mouse” was cute, charming and capable. It was replaced by the comparatively less advanced, but stylistically imortal 500, which is revered today quite feverishly. Then, in their infinite wisdom, they replaced the…
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How much for Bentley Continental pads and rotors?
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Congratulations on your new-ish Volkswagen Bentley Continental. It looks howt! Being a sensible person of taste, you don’t own the super amazing limited edition super fast model but you did wisely chose the proper twin-turbo W12 engine and not the puny, significantly less expensive, a lot more efficient, and equally fast V8. Being an automotive enthusiast and financially responsible, you…
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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 corner with cars on it. Good luck! Image: ©2015 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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Diesel Oldsmobile Wagon is a Generation Gap Encarnate
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There are about four Blipshift shirts I regret purchasing; with the Unicorn being the most recent. The brown diesel manual wagon, hoo boy! …except I can already hear my dad doing that dismissive scoff/chuckle that he does when presented with irony-steeped anti-cool that’s so popular with Gen X…or is that Y? (I fall in-between). Boomers, despite…
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Hooniverse Asks: Who is a Better Driver, Your Mom or Your Dad?
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The battle of the sexes has long been fought behind the wheel of the car. That includes your parents, even if just the thought of that pair and sex battles gives you the heebie-jeebies. For at least as long as there have been automobiles, the question has come up – who is a better driver, a…
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Last Call: Nose Art Edition
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Jack Kellogg was the official artist of the 98th Seabees in the Pacific. Who knew such a position even existed? Kellogg was not only responsible for a prolific number of cartoons describing the life of the construction crews during the engagement, but also the comedic nose art for a lot of the planes flying over…
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24 Hours of LeMons: A triumphant trio of rotting American iron race in Michigan
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It’s generally no surprise that imported cars tend to make up the bulk of the field at 24 Hours of LeMons races because most Japanese and even some German cars depreciate into $500 territory. If you’re somehow unfamiliar with irreverent low-dollar endurance racing series, the basic premise is: Bring a $500 car to go endurance…
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Surprise Brougham: 1996 Cadillac Deville Concours
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Suppose it’s Monday. Wait, it is Monday. Ugh. Anyway, when you get over the fact that the working week has started and brought a slush storm with it, and you go for groceries later in the day, an honestly weird car sighting is something that can really lift up your spirits. No, it wasn’t the…
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Two Trabants: One Terrible, One Topless.
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This weekend just gone saw this years Classics On The Quay, a varied gathering of wheeled machinery hosted graciously by Colchester Kawasaki. I won’t bore you with all the cars that always show up at events like these; there are only so many times I can see a Porsche Carrera GT or a Bugatti Veyron…
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Formula Fun: Chinese Grand Prix Edition
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utAhrJDwWfQ&spfreload=10[/youtube] As we begin, lets look back on the last race win by one Micheal Schumacher, facing off with title rival Fernando Alonso. While Alonso went on to win the championship that year, and Schumi ended up getting replaced by the Iceman, this victory showed why he was the master. This year, however, it appears that…