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Review: 2013 Fiat Panda 1.3 Multijet 4×4
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So, it was finally time that I got my hands on an Italian thoroughbred for a review, and the kindly folks at Fiat were happy to oblige. As it happens, I’ve wanted to drive one of these for a long time. I’ve been a Panda-lover ever since a schoolfriend’s mum had a ’90 Bianca…
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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. Last week I asked you to all become X-men (and women) and find all the Novas, Venturas, Omegas, and Apollos you could find, both normal and mutant. We’ll see if X marks the…
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The Sharpied Vanagon – crowd-sourced car art
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There are plenty of images of Sharpied cars on the internet, including a Lamborghini Gallardo, but none of them have a back story that’s quite as awesome as this one. Rather than hiring a professional artist to do some art work in Sharpie, the owner of this Vanagon decided to let the community do it…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Most Egregious Function-Demanded Styling Add-on?
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When Marcello Gandini first put pen to paper and let inspiration guide his hand in the creation of what would eventually become the Countach – a car that would be named for the emotive expression called to mind upon first seeing it – the design looked a lot more like its precedent Miura than did…
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Last Call- Red Bull in the Red Square Edition
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F1 cars represent the highest level of just about every aspect of performance metric – whether downforce, cornering g-force, acceleration from just about any speed, and tire to tire racing. It is in fact just about the most exciting motor sport on the planet. And yet, despite all that, I’ll bet you still don’t realize…
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Used Car Reviews – What about the Opel Omega?
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Due to the incompability of Opel paint processes and Finnish weather conditions, coupled with the effects of road salt, Opels have often been deemed as rust traps. It doesn’t take long for a Vectra to score its flanks with rust marks, and to rot out its wheelarches. ’80s models have faced the crusher in swarms.…
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British Car Day Preview: 1970 Marcos GT
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If you’re going to be in the Boston area on the weekend of June 22nd and 23, and you’re in desperate need of a classic car fix, you can’t do much better than British Car Day at Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline. Every year the museum hosts more than two dozen lawn events which…
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Pictures of Cars with engineerd™ – Motor Muster
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Every Father’s Day weekend cars from the 1930s through the 1970s descend on Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village and line the streets of the historical landmark in a dazzling display of automotive history. Normally, the only mechanical sounds heard in The Village, as us locals call it, are the steam train and the putter-putter of the…
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Ford Made Miracle- The B-24 Liberator
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Many people are aware that the Ford Motor Company’s prowess at efficient line production was employed by the US Government to produce a staggering number of Army Jeeps, but did you know that the company also put that skill to the test in the building of heavy bombers? Ford’s Willow Run plant opened even before Pearl…
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Studebaker Wagonaire Wagon: the vintage alternative to an Envoy XUV or Subaru Baja
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If you’re looking to beef up your obscure auto trivia knowledge, the Studebaker Wagonaire is one of the better merit badges to acquire. Made from 63-66, it featured a sliding rear roof section that allowed for the transport of taller items. In typical early-60s fashion, it was an interesting idea lacking in successful execution. Specifically,…
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Classic Captions – The 1965 International Scout Edition
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Welcome to the Hooniverse Classic Captions Post. This is a series of posts that are set to run this time each week, so let’s review the premise; I search for images that were used by the car companies in their print advertising or brochures, and it is your job to provide a humorous, snarky, or…
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Hooniverse Asks- What are the Best Back Seats You have Ever Experienced?
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Before we kickoff today’s conundrum let’s get one thing straight: when we’re discussing back seats and their individual comfort, we’re doing so relative to being seated in one for any length of time, not in the salacious, drive-in theater teenage fumbling with the bra snaps manner, m’kay? Now that we’ve got that elephant in the…
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Last Call- The Fin is In
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While ‘fin’ may mean end in French, it was the Americans that embraced that styling element on the ends of their cars back in the ’50s. Here’s the driver of a 1959 Chevy Impala saying fin to an also finned ’57. This image comes from a cool site called Wheels are Everytinng, and the wallpaper sized…
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British Car Day Preview: Bristol 403
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Your typical summertime British car show is always full of rubber-bumper MGBs and Triumph TR6s that had sat out in the sun too long. But British Car Day at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum is not your typical British car show. And every year it never fails to surprise, with rarities that you’d normally only…
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The Carchive: Fiat Strada II
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Welcome back to The Carchive, the radically repackaged internet series charting the brochures that time forgot and landfill rejected. Those of you with access to the internet may recollect our visit to the world-stopping Fiat Strada (or Ritmo to glamorous continental types). Well, if you’ve been waiting for the sequel, then thrust your arms skywards…
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Hoonivercinema- Monday Music Video
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It’s Monday, and we want to start the week off with a heartfelt ode that Automotive Mecca that has fallen on hard times- the Motor City itself, Detroit. In We Almost Lost Detroit that city’s native sons, Daniel Zott and Joshua Epstein – better known as Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – give us a step…