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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: It’s well known that upon its debut, Enzo Ferrari declared Jaguar’s E-Type to be “the most beautiful car ever built.” Road…
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Motorsports Weekend Guide: March 6 to March 8
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Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse’s weekly look forward to the weekend ahead in racing. For this week, two FIA series go westward, NASCAR, and a huge field heads to Texas. Follow the jump for more.
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Most Ridiculously-Difficult Simple-Repair You Have Ever had to Attempt?
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I recently had to replace the shoes on the back brakes of a 2005 Toyota Sienna, and man, if Toyota could have made it any more of a pain in the ass, I don’t know how. Drum brakes are fairly simple things, and yet, somehow automotive engineers seem, on occasion, bent on making them unnecessarily complicated. At…
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Last Call- Not So Demure Club De Mer Edition
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I’m embarrassed to admit that while I am well familiar with the 1956 Motorama concept, the Pontiac Club De Mer, I have in fact never seen the car from the back. What strikes me, having finally seen it from this angle is how similar it appears to the contemporary Mercedes Benz 300 SL. In fact,…
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TV TypeCARsting: The art of matching Cars and Characters.
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BBC has been running a three-part serialisation of J K Rowling’s “The Casual Vacancy” over the last couple of weekends. This is normally far from the kind of thing that we would usually discuss on Hooniverse, but one aspect of its production stood out to me more vividly than primetime weekend TV usually does. The…
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Hoonivercinema: Best Motoring Super Battle
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I’m a huge Best Motoring fan and I was deeply saddened when they closed their doors in 2011. The variation that the Best Motoring International series offered, from the Track and Touge Battles to Gymkhana runs, was a more enthusiast-minded environment than the comparable fact driven Motorweek. Of all the battles, the Super Battle from 2006 reigns…
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First Drive: 2015 Volkswagen Golf R
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6BU_H6YH2M[/youtube] Volkswagen is pretty much cooking up a Golf for everyone on the planet. You have the standard Golf, the diesel TDI, and an all-electric eGolf. Enthusiasts around the globe love the GTI. There’s also a wagon version coming soon called the Golf SportWagen. This, however, is the one for… us. This is the Volkswagen…
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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. I’m not sure what went down last week, but it appears that everything from our contest after the jump disappeared into the cornfield. That’s too bad because there was some really pithy feedback and…
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My Weekend Didn't Suck
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaudPgJlt7s[/youtube] Last weekend, Mrs. Tanshanomi and I got away for an extended weekend and spent two days snowmobiling in the Arapahoe National Forest with a few friends. The Grand Lake area is a snowmobile mecca, and these three minutes of video demonstrate why. Needless to say, we came back in a very, very good mood.…
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Flagship Dealerships of the Champs-Elysees: Renault, Citroen
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Ready for something weird? Really weird? French weird?
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Hooniverse Asks-Rear- or Front-Facing Third Row, What's Your Preference?
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Most all of us appreciate the utility and inherent good looks afforded by the longroof editions of our favorite sedans. Another plus for cars that extend weather and wind protection over what would normally be the trunk is the ability to put people back there instead of just cargo. Now, I know what you Mafiosos…
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Last Call- I Wouldn't Steer You Wrong Edition
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March 15th marks the date of the 20th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, and this year the show will be highlighting “Cars of the Cowboys.” That will include Leo Carrillo’s famous Steer Car, a 1948 Chrysler Town and Country convertible with a longhorn head mounted between the headlights. I find it both amazing and more…
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The Heritage Cars Of BF Goodrich
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Thanks to BF Goodrich, I am in Phoenix, AZ to test out the new Comp 2 All Season tire (don’t worry, a full review will be coming shortly). Last night, however, there was no driving being done, just an orientation on the tire, a history of the company’s revolutionary and perhaps radical application of technology…
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Those Little Flourishes That Make You Go "Mmmmmm".
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I’m as guilty as everybody else. We all coo and wow over every new shiny projectile that shows up in Hooniverse News. We also all salivate over whatever extraordinary artefact Hooniverse dredges up from Craiglist, whether it be an unseen-by-human-eyes-for-decades barnfind or some insane combination of chassis, engine and build-sheet that defies any possible explanation…
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JuggaLambo: A short tribute to the Pontiac Grand Prix GTP
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This is the 1997-2003 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP. It features a supercharged V6, a heads-up display, a gimmicky car information center, a CD player with seven-band equalizer, five-spoke alloy wheels, a trunklid spoiler, so much body cladding, weird lines, acceptable crash test ratings (Take that, Grand Am!), and probably water in the taillights. This…
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2016 Honda Civic Type R Is FWD Destroyer Of The 'Ring
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Front wheel drive is boring… it is, right? The actual answer depends on the car you’re driving. My Honda Civic Si was a blast to drive, and our own Kamil Kaluski is pumped to get his Integra on the road. Ask anyone who’s attended the Team O’Neil Rally School in New Hampshire about front-wheel-drive fun,…