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Obscure Muscle Car Garage – Time to vote them out; These are the Obscure Muscle Trucks, and SUV's…
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Welcome to week four of our review of the Obscure Muscle Car Garage, and this time we are looking at the Obscure Muscle Trucks that were outlined in this series. I had more than a little fun with this particular subset of the Obscure Muscle Car Garage because, well because they were in fact Trucks,…
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Hooniverse Asks- Should More Cars Have Sliding Doors?
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Earlier this week over on Jalopnik, Jason dug up a cool VW Golf prototype from 1973 that had been converted by a supplier to feature a sliding driver’s door. The forward-sliding panel on that VW probably wasn’t all that practical, seeing as it appeared to limit the steering range when opened. That’s less of an…
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Last Call- Low Down Dirty Shame Edition
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When it comes to ride height you have three options. Obviously you can go with stock… if you’re a loser. Or, you can go high-boy or low rider, depending on your proclivities. Considering all three of those options, it’s really only the last one that also allows for inventive methods of traversing real life. Last…
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Truck Thursday: What the hell kind of a Land Cruiser is this?
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My Ariel Atom owning/selling friend sent me this picture. He saw this weirdness on his way to work this morning, somewhere on Route 93, north of Boston. What the hell is it? Is it an new Toyota chassis with an old body on it? And if so, what they hell were they thinking with those…
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Diecast Delights: A 1970 Triumph Spitfire in 1:18 scale
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I find myself slightly baffled by the various diecast collecting websites out there. Choosing what to collect is obviously up to the choice of the individual, but an awful lot of people out there spend massive amounts of money on high-end models of high-end supercars. As soon as a new Ferrari is released, or even…
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2015 Chicago Auto Show: The Best Cars At The Show… Are Old Alfa Romeos
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Sure, the new cars can be fun. The new Ford GT is here, for example. Still, you know we love old cars best here in the Hooniverse. That’s why all of us on site here in Chicago are drooling over what’s happening at the Alfa Romeo booth. The 4C Spider parked up front is nice…
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Truck Thursday: Another Edition Of Oops I Did It Again
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Recently this olelongrooffan was headed up to catch a VDub show in the next burg up on State Road 93 when I spotted this Mini Monster Truck on the rear of this flatbed in the utility area of the Germain Arena. Well, as Vdubs were on my mind, I decided to pack this bit of…
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2015 Chicago Auto Show: I Feel Sad For This Chevy SS
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This poor Chevrolet SS. This is the dark corner of the hall. It’s the far end of the Chevy booth. It’s near a row of vending machines. This poor SS. It’s all alone. It’s neglected. It’s… a metaphor for the car itself. Get a good look at this car, because you can bet that it’s…
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Chicago Auto Show 2015: A Bit Of Brown On The Floor
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Hooniverse Alum Blake “Zeppelin Pilot” Rong recently penned a piece over on Kinja that set a number of automotive journalist cliches into list form. It’s a fun read, and one of my favorite parts was the inclusion of loving all things brown. So, in his honor, I decided to track down some of the brown…
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Submissions Thursday: Back from the Dead
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Hooniverse‘s all-amateur cast gives us our unique character, but limits us as well. Simply put, we’ve only got so much time for the site. We tend to go with what we know: I’m all about my projects and your future projects, for example. It’s a good mix, but even the tastiest smoothie with the same eight…
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2015 Chicago Auto Show: the Nissan GT-R LM Nismo
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Last night, Nissan held a super-exclusive event to show the radical new GT-R LM Nismo – a super-exclusive event that I meandered into. This was the first time that Nissan’s radical new LMP1 entry made an appearance that wasn’t on TV. Click past the jump for some shots and my quick first impressions.
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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: What notable achievement did the Acura Legend realize upon its U.S. debut? If you think you know the answer, make the jump…
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Motorsports Weekend Guide: February 13 to February 15
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Welcome to another weekly installment of Hooniverse’s guide to motor racing this coming weekend. The forthcoming few days bring the beginning of the longest sports season in the country and extreme racing both on land and off-road. Your weekend in racing starts here and as this is being published, your humble correspondent is probably drooling…
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2016 Honda Pilot – Angles and Curves
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This morning, a major automotive website, and Jalopnik, provided an early showing of the redesigned 2016 Honda Pilot. Where I was instantly in love with the new 2015 Volvo XC90, I am sad to say that this vehicle did not give me the same feeling. At this point I should also say that I have always…
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Hooniverse Asks- Do Mud Flaps Need to Make a Comeback?
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As cars have become more wind-cheating and fuel efficient, marching ever closer to their inevitable ultimate bar of soap or cat turd shapes, vestigial appendages like rain gutters, door handles, and the subject of today’s attention – mud flaps – have fallen by the wayside. The mud flap has a long and illustrious career keeping…
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Last Call- Godzilla-Jam Edition
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Have you ever been stuck in a line of traffic and tried to crane your neck to see what sort of car is the cause? Isn’t that almost always the case, that there are just certain types of cars the drivers of which seem hell bent on slowing everyone else down? Like in this shot, I’m…