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1965 Datsun Baby – 1 of 100
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This is a two-seater coupe with four-wheel independent suspension (double wishbones upfront!). And cool looks, too. If you were a kid in 1965-1973 Japan, you could drive this fully functional car with a 200cc engine around Kodomo no Kuni amusement park in Yokohama, like 300,000 other kids have. Your speed was limited to 30kph, or 18 mph, which…
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Formula Fun: Easter Edition
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUhB0JKjJrQ[/youtube] As we mourn the loss of Top Gear, let us not forget the show, much like the baby Jesus, may rise again. In all honesty, this has been a pretty light week in the world of F1. It seems like the news cycle, along with the teams, might have all focused their brainpower towards…
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About Last Week's Track Tuesday
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Surprisingly, no one was able to guess last week’s track. I’m not going to give you the answer directly, but instead offer up the whole track – the section highlighted last week is in the upper right-hand corner – and I’m betting that will make a starting light go off over your head. Image: ©2015…
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Hoonivercinema: Monday Movie Trailer
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The Last American Hero is not a TV show about a nebbish school teacher being given superpowers by aliens, that would be The Greatest American Hero. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, we can discuss just what The Last American Hero is. The 1973 movie is based on a story published in The…
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Modern Art Monday: The Autostadt Museum
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A few years ago, I trekked to Germany to sample both the Volkswagen GTD and the XL1. It was my first trip to Europe. Being an automaker’s press launch, there wasn’t a whole lot of sightseeing as, believe it or not, this is still a work trip. Regardless, I thoroughly enjoyed taking that GTD down…
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Amber & Red Turn Signals
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In nearly all automotive markets worldwide, turn signals are required to be amber. Not so in North America, where Federal (& Canadian) vehicle standards allow them to be either amber or red on the rear of the vehicle. (This remains true despite the government’s own findings that amber turn signals are safer, significantly reducing accidents…
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Hooniverse Asks: What's Your Favorite 2015 NYIAS Debut?
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It’s that time again, time for a significant regional car show. And, just like most of them, Hooniverse is all over the sites that are providing in-depth coverage so that we can bring you our take on what’s the best and most interesting stuff to see. Alternatively, we tell you what we think are the…
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Weekend Edition – 1994 Fiat Uno
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There are a number of ’80s-’90s cars you just don’t see anymore. Old Fiats seem to vanish at an alarming rate, like they have always done, and by now the Fiat Uno is a rare sight on our roads. They sold reasonably well when new, as they were pretty cheap, but that just meant they…
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Weekend Edition – Mercedes-Benz SLK 200 Kompressor
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Easter is the time of bright colours, spring chicken, decorations and getting days off from work. And what a better way to enjoy a holiday than in a very very yellow Mercedes SLK? The car here isn’t the most powerful SLK you could get, by far, as it’s the 200 Kompressor and a facelift one…
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Weekend Edition – 1992 Jaguar XJ40 Sovereign
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If the Cadillac posted previously was an odd sight in 1990s Finland, a Jaguar Sovereign like this might have been just a little more opulent. The plates here do mark it down as an import instead of an original, Finnish-registered 1992 car, but a decent number of XJ40:s did make it here new. With the…
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Weekend Edition – 1993 Cadillac STS Northstar
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On a wet Easter weekend, you might still run into something interesting on these Helsinki side streets. This 1993 Cadillac STS is an original Finnish car judging by the plates, and the front plate at least is so bent it’s definitely 1993 vintage. I can’t imagine there were all too many Cadillacs registered here in…
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Last Call: Oh You Cad! Edition
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That amazing machine above is a ’27 T roadster that’s powered by a ’34 Cadillac 346 V8, and is said to have been built just after the war. The cool headers make it look like Shemp from the Three Stooges, as well as like nothing else out there. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day.…
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YouTube Economics: The /DRIVE+ Paywall
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The /DRIVE network has recently moved to a new financing model. They were originally funded by YouTube as part of its Original Content program: they received a fixed amount of cash to produce car films and gave up their share of the ad revenue in exchange. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out very well for Google’s…
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I saw Furious 7 last night…and you should go see it too
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Last night I trekked up to the garage space of Hot Rod to take a look at some cars. No, it wasn’t a peek at some of the oh-so-wonderful Roadkill projects, but rather a chance to eyeball three of the cars used in the latest installment of the Fast and Furious franchise; Furious 7. After a bit of…
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Exploring the Hooniverse Mountune Focus ST
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfCFRiAneew[/youtube] Our man Jason Connor typically handles driving duty when it comes to the camera car. What do we use for said vehicle? Why Jason’s own Mountune-modified Focus ST. It’s a car that actually deserves its own video… so that’s what’s happening here. In fact, we’re going to let Jason tell us all about it. Mr.…
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The News for April 3rd, 2015
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News – 2015 New York Auto Show Recap! As always, this is a weekly news roundup of some of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. I just throw in a little opinion of mine because I can. This week, it’s all from the Big Apple: McLaren 570S is…