Articles
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Poles Apart: The Pressing Matter of Quality Switchgear In Car vs Home.
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Switches. Car reviewers love to get all emotional when it comes to the feel of a good switch. Poor switch action can mark the end of an otherwise positive review, which is not really fair. It’s a bit like how the interior plastics are criticised in every successive Corvette release. You don’t buy a Corvette…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Random Cars of Warsaw
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In October of 2014 I spent a few days in Warsaw, visiting with family. I managed to find a little time to aimlessly wonder around that city that I was born in, and moved out of at the age of ten. In between the familiar buildings, tourist traps, museums, unique stores, amazing bakeries, and decent restaurants,…
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Hooniverse Garage: 1969 Jeep Wagoneer Intake Manifold Fix
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q_wQy7rUs0[/youtube] We’re back in the garage again, working on the Wagoneer. It’s well known that Jeeps leak oil, but there’s a spectrum from “marking their territory” to “British Leyland” to “Exxon Valdez”. My Wagoneer was leaking so much down the undercarriage it’d actually blow up the back of the car and accumulate an oil slick on the tailgate after any…
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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. There’s no fool like an April Fool and to celebrate that foolish day last week we asked you to find the most foolish car or truck that you could. We’ll get to fooling…
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Podcast: Episode 99 – The Cult of Harbor Freight
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Blake, Producer Chris, and myself are joined by Zack Klapman from The Smoking Tire. The chatter this time around centers on the new Furious 7 movie, joining the cult of Harbor Freight, and then what we plan on doing for episode 100. There’s also a bit of light HoonTruck and Miata news. As a heads up, after episode…
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Hooniverse Goes to Formula E
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1 series. 10 teams. 20 drivers. 40 cars. Say what? Because the electric racers don’t have enough juice to run the entire hour-long race, Formula E drivers have to switch cars midway through. And you know what? That’s not the most absurd thing about this series. Make the jump to find out why I think…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Current Car Would 16-Year Old You Covet?
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Has anyone ever told you that you were born in the wrong time? I got that a lot growing up because I tended to gravitate towards hanging with people older than me as I found them vastly more interesting than the dorks my own age. That of course meant that I was usually surrounded by people…
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Last Call: The Best Motorcycle in the World Edition
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According to the people who sold them, the Triumph Bonneville 120 was the best motorcycle in the World. I don’t know about you, but I’d sure like to put that to the test today. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread…
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Helsinki Street Sightings – Rover 600-series
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How would you like your mid-1990s Honda Accord, sir? As an American-built car from Ohio? Or perhaps a Japanese one? Or as a re-dressed, widened version of the very JDM Honda Ascot Innova, which the European Accord essentially was? Nope, for true class you would want it decorated with a Viking ship. No matter how…
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Going Back In Time with the Nissan Juke
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I only had a short period in the company of Nissan’s high-riding mechanised toad, the Juke, so the following can’t really be called a review. Well, it is and it isn’t, if you see what I mean. I was certainly able to get an impression of the car. I was able to determine that, give…
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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 curves and straights. Good luck! Image: ©2015 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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Easter Sunday Ranchero Resurrection
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All it needed was points and a condenser. Of course, I came to that conclusion after throwing a bunch of other parts at it first (and leaving the points on the counter as I walked out the door the first time). That raucous exhaust note comes courtesy of a massive crack in the exhaust manifold…
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Hooniverse Asks: What's the Weirdest Car Trying to Look Like Another Car You've Ever Seen?
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Have you ever seen the movie Single White Female? Yeah, that’s a creep-fest. It’s also an experience that has made me leery of anything that tries to be something else, and that includes cars. Surimi passing itself off as crab, that dude that spent thousands for plastic surgery so he can look like Justin Bieber,…
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Last Call: The Art of the Part Edition
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Swiss artist Fabian Oefner created a series called Disintegrated that shows sports and racing cars literally being parted out right before our eyes. Here is perhaps its most dramatic entry, a Ferrari 330 P4 coming apart at the seams, and nuts and bolts. It’s kinetic and complicated, and totally makes me think of The Matrix.…
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1981 Caprice Taxi…in South Africa?
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The cool thing (well, one of the cool things) about surfing the Interwebs is the unprecedented opportunity we have to peek in on far-flung locales that we’d have known nothing about pre cyber-age. Working my Google-fu (if you’ll excuse my millennial jargon) while searching for the images I used in today’s Encyclopedia Hoonatica post, I…
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Surviving My Non-Car Chores: Mow-Toring Fantasies
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Easter weekend. Four days away from the stresses and rigours of the office… which inevitably end up being used to do all the things I’ve been trying to put off so far this year. You know, interior decorating, bits of home maintenance and, yes, mowing the lawn. Unlike my American friends, the plot on which…