Articles
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Hooniverse Asks- How Long Should a New Car Last?
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Owing to features demanded by buyers, and the safety and emissions regulations that pretty much every industrialized nation imposes on vehicles plying their roads, it’s safe to say that today’s cars and trucks are the most complicated in history. You might expect that added complication to also make cars slower, less efficient, and far less…
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Last Call- That Is The Question Edition
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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both Aston Martin and Range Rover are infinite. Image source: Imgur
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Toyota FX32 Wins At 24 Hours Of Lemons BFE GP
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Everybody’s favorite Toyota FX with an MR2 shoved up its backside has done something unprecedented. It is the first twin-engine, four wheel drive car to actually win at a Lemons event. Somehow this little gem – which was built in a mere three months’ time earlier this year under Hooniverse’s watcful eye – not only ran…
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Don't forget to comment and vote on the Father's Day Meguiar's Contest
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The contest is still up and going. It will run through Monday June 10th and close after Last Call posts that day. The winners will be announced the following day. That means you still have time to get in there and share your father (or father figure) stories for a chance to win some gear…
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Citroën Rendezvous Preview: Citroën Visa
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Citroen Rendezvous 2013 is almost here, ladies and gents, so let’s take a look at one of the cars that appeared at this event in Saratoga Springs, New York last year, and one that perhaps need a slightly more detailed introduction than some of the Citroen cars that you’re used to seeing. Assuming, of course,…
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The Best Series On The Web Returns June 13th, The Best, Jerry!
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Commedians! Cars! Coffee! The web series that is the brain child of comedian and never-has-to-work-again syndication check recipient Jerry Seinfeld is headed back to a Web enabled device near you. After a 10-episode run last year, including a redemptive extended one with Michael Richards, it was left up in the air as to whether or…
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The News for June 7th, 2013
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! This is a weekly recap of some of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or the bull. I also throw in a little opinion of mine, just because I can. This week: Porsche 911 turns 50, obligatory special edition follows Pagani builds one last Zonda for real this…
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Mystery Car
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While Southern California is famous for unrelenting sunshine and the dissimulated perkiness of its inhabitants, we’re now in the middle of an annual weather phenomenon known as June Gloom. This is manifested by a marine layer that covers the Los Angeles basin every morning causing gray skies and even grayer moods among the populous. Well,…
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Hooniverse Obscure Muscle Car Garage – The Studebaker R2 Super Lark, and R-2 Super Hawk
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Welcome to the Hooniverse Obscure Muscle Car Garage, a regular feature which aims to expand the notion of what a muscle car is, and to have some fun in the process. Today’s feature is one of the last gasps of greatness from that great South Bend, Indiana car maker, Studebaker. This entry into the Garage…
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Hooniverse Asks- What do you Think has Been the Dumbest Automaker Advertising Line?
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Making your own thunder is perhaps not the best tag line for an auto advertisement. That is, unless the ad is touting a car’s power windows and flow-through ventilation. Still, that was what Ford thought would drive people to consider the massive mid-seventies Thunderbird. This was the same company that thought “Road-Hugging Weight” would be…
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Last Call- Two Syllables, Sounds Like Edition
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Back in the day, a shaving cream company used a clever marketing gimmick to sell their product- a series of roadside signs that told a little story in rhyme, always ending with the brand name as coda- Burma Shave. The government of South Australia’s Motor Accident Commission seems to have taken that concept to heart,…
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Truck Thursday – Land Rover Defender 2.5 Td5 keeps on trucking
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Our own Kamil has oftentimes mentioned how he’d really like a sturdy Land Rover Defender for himself, so when I happened upon this green example on a Helsinki side street, I really had to document it for him. Most of the Defenders or older Land Rovers you see here are the short wheelbase 90:s or…
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For Sale – 1967 Pontiac Beaumont Sport Deluxe
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One of the cars I saw this past Saturday at the Big Rock car show was this 1967 Pontiac Beaumont Sport Deluxe. Here are some of the specs the seller wants you to know: Big block Chevrolet 454 Holley 4-barrel carburetor Edelbrock intakes 3-speed automatic with a Turbo 400 transmission 3-inch headers, Magnaflow mufflers,…
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The Carchive: The Morris FG 4-Ton Truck
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So far this series has barely placed a foot in the exciting arena of commercial vehicles. This has been a major oversight on my part, as there is often as many wild claims within the brochure text for your average beast of burden, as there is for that of even the most swoonworthy piece of…
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Greenwich Concours Europa is Twenty Kinds of Awesome
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If you thought the American day of Greenwich Concours was as good as it gets, you were only partially right. Because Saturday’s American car day was just the appetizer for the main event, Sunday’s Concours Europa, or Concours International as it has come to be known. While Saturday saw some very impressive cars and a…
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Review: 2013 Kia Optima SXL
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Sometime in the late 1990’s I started seeing “Suzy”, a very cute, petite, and very smart girl. Suzy owned a Honda Civic hatchback (EC) which I probably liked more than I liked her. One day, as we were walking through our college campus parking lot toward where she parked her car, she says to me…