Articles
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Henrik Fisker Thunderbolt – the one-off GT coupe of our dreams
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Henrik Fisker is a man that likes to stay busy, to say the least. Just days after announcing that the super Mustang he helped create with Galpin Auto Sports was ready for production, he’s pulling the covers off of another huge project this morning at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. Unless you’re one of the…
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Last Call: Crappy Ad Edition
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Insurance is a form of risk management. Some of us are risk takers and have lithe bare minimum, while others are risk adverse, and load up as contingency against what might be seen as the inevitable. The one thing that’s a constant is that the specific loss against which you are hedging – timing, location,…
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Outsiders Perspective: 2015 Geneva International Motor Show (Part Two)
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You thought you had seen all from the Geneva Motor Show? You shouldn’t have if you saw the previous article had Part 1 written on it. We still have lots of things to go through. And what better way to start it than with the future as presented by the swedish. The Koenigsegg Regera. A…
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Outsiders Perspective: 2015 Geneva International Motor Show (Part One)
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There’s no way of going around it. This year’s Geneva motor show has been absolutely packed with cool and impressive things. From concepts that we’ll know we won’t get but are cool anyway to supercars and down to the cars the people actually buy; I’ll have to split this article in two parts just from…
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The News for March 13th, 2015
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News – Slow News Week Edition! As always, this is a weekly recap 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. Stuff did happen, but most of the big announcements were all done last…
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First Drive: 2016 Acura ILX
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMLmfB4mRKI[/youtube] The entry-level luxury market is a hot spot right now in the industry. Strong competition amongst the offerings typically breeds great options for the consumer. You have plenty of ways to get in with an upscale automaker, so deciding on the best course of action is a good problem. Acura has an updated answer to…
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Mystery Car
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The weird thing about March is that, up until the 28th the days and dates match those of February. That means we get yet another Friday the 13th, for all your superstitious bad luck fear enjoyment. Maybe you’ll enjoy trying to solve today’s Mystery Car more than staying away from black cats and stepping on…
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Hooniverse Asks: ‘50s Edition- What’s the Greatest Future Tech from the 1950s?
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Well we’ve finally come to the end of our salute to the ’50s here on Hooniverse Asks, and by now I bet half of you are walking around saying aye just like Fonzie, while the other half are furiously Googling just who in the hell this Fonzie character is. Yeah, Henry Winkler’s Hood with a Heart…
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Last Call: Falling to Pieces Edition
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The Ferrari 250 GTO is one of the world’s most coveted cars. As such, it’s also one of the world’s priciest – when one comes up for auction. You might be able to save a few bucks if you bought one – like in this restoration shop ad – with some assembly required. Last Call…
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The Carchive: The Series III Hillman Minx
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The Carchive is where we close our eyes to whatever’s going on at the cutting edge of the automotive world, take a deep breath and ponder the past, rummaging through the highs and the lows of history. From a brief flirtation with heavy trucks last week we drop down a couple of dozen sizes today…
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24 Hours of LeMons: Up-to-the-week-ish news!
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The 24 Hours of LeMons season hasn’t picked up quite yet this season with just one race a month in the year’s early going, so we at Hooniverse thought we’d bridge the gap between races with a few general news items of interest. Let me shuffle my papers as, in the finest sense of Brian Williams-esque…
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Truck Thursday: Rod Millen's Pikes Peak Toyota Tacoma
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A 2.1 liter, turbocharged, 1,000 horsepower 4-cylinder monster of a hill climb tube-chassis racecar truck. In the late 90’s in the prime of the dirt track layout of The Pikes Peak International Hillclimb this Tacoma was the king, dominating the 1998-99 “Race to the Clouds” event. I remember playing Gran Turismo 2 and running up…
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HoonTruck: The Video Intro…
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=915q8lzZzgg[/youtube] You’ve met her in pictures, but now say hello to HoonTruck in video form. I’ll admit there hasn’t been much progress yet, but we have many parts now in the garage. So I had to get off my ass to shoot this so I can start diving in and getting some parts put on…
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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: How many years did the Ford Motor Company go without a domestically-produced passenger car with a four-cylinder engine? If you think you…
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Motorsports Weekend Guide: March 13 to March 15
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Welcome to Hooniverse’s weekly guide to who is racing what and where this upcoming weekend. This weekend marks the “real start” of racing for the world’s biggest motorsports series while the first professional all-electric racing heads to the U.S. for the first time. The usual suspects are in play stateside, as well, oddly occupying most…
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Hooniverse Asks: ’50s Edition- What’s the Greatest Race Car of the Nineteen Fifties?
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The 1950s represented a golden age of motor racing. Pretty much everything set to track was still front-engined, and a famous adage expressed of the era is that back then the tires were skinny and the drivers were fat. Consider some of the cars that first saw the light of day during that rock and roll decade: the…