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Video Review First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500 Abarth CabrioDrop your top and open your ears
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The Fiat 500 Abarth is a fun car but not a great car. It produces a rather addicting exhaust note, is fun to squeeze through traffic, and it returns a white-knuckle experience should you venture out on to a race track in one. The Abarth isn’t about the track though, despite the engineers stressing that…
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American Detours: Taking in the Creole Nature Trail by way of a 1963 (and a half) Ford Galaxie
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It’s here! The first episode of American Detours is now live, and I’ve embedded the video for you after the break. This is the first of two parts dedicated to Louisiana’s Creole Nature Trail. In Episode One, host Jael De Pardo and myself are driving a lovely 1963.5 Ford Galaxie and we use it to…
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Hoonivercinema- Monday Music Video
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There’s different kinds of car music – those which serve as sound track to your highway heroics, those which make you pine for such highway heroics, and those which make you think about the same highway heroics while booty grinding out at a club. Taio Cruz’s Fast Car represent’s the last form, and was written…
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Classic Car Winter Hoonage in Eastern Europe
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Summer time is definitely more car-guy-friendly for driving events, shows, rallies, and general get-togethers. Winter does not need to all cold and dark, however, as we will learn today. While ice racing is somewhat popular around the norther regions of our land, I have yet to see autocross on snow which, I think, is a…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's The Worst "Professional" Car Repair You've Ever Seen?
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My former brother in law once owned this Renault Alliance. . . What? I said former. Anyway, he managed to rear end somebody, which turned out to be pretty devastating to the Renault as apparently they were made from tissue paper. For some reason the insurance company chose not to total the car and instead…
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Concept Weekend Edition – The Golden Way: 1990 Chevrolet Corvette Nivola by Bertone
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The third Bertone piece today is a solid gold effort, again with Chevrolet mechanicals. The 1990 Nivola features the ZR1 powerplant, but instead of a simpler rebodying effort of a Corvette structure, the car has been re-engineered into a mid-engined configuration. It’s also apparently been shot at the same gravel pit where Bertone has gone…
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Concept Weekend Edition – The Devil's Own: 1984 Chevrolet Ramarro by Bertone
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Still moving upstream with the Bertone concepts, the Concept Weekend continues. And like the Aria and Delfino featured previously, the 1984 Chevrolet Ramarro here is again a Marc Deschamps work. Yes, that is a Corvette C4 underneath the bold slab of green bodywork, and as a transformation it’s comparable to the Aria’s development from a…
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Concept Weekend Edition – Ain't That Peculiar: 1983 Alfa Romeo Delfino by Bertone
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The Concept Weekend continues. We take a side step at the Mazda MX-81 Aria by Bertone, discarding Mazda concepts and continuing up the Bertone stream. The unifying detail with the 1983 Alfa Romeo Delfino here and the 1981 Aria is that they both came from the desk of the same man, Bertone designer Marc Deschamps.…
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Concept Weekend Edition – Forbidden Colours: 1981 Mazda MX-81 "Aria" by Bertone
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Here’s one for the Brown Car Appreciation Society, straight from the vault of Bertone. The 1981 MX-81 Aria, designed by Marc Deschamps is an attractively blocky hatchback with the best-looking glasshouse I’ve seen in ages. And pause for a moment to consider there’s a 1981 Mazda 323 GLC hidden underneath. That’s the magic of concept-car…
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Concept Weekend Edition – Pulling Punches: 1985 Mazda MX-03
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Moving on with the Concept Weekend theme, we have something of a white whale at our hands. It’s the tech-laden 1985 Mazda MX-03, and it’s frankly a stunning piece of design and engineering. Gunning at Toyota Soarer most likely, the MX-03 was a large coupe with every imaginable ’80s tour de force feature. Pulling Punches…
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Concept Weekend Edition – Red Guitar: 1987 Mazda MX-04
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Welcome to another Weekend Edition, and a Concept Car themed one to boot. A couple weeks ago I ran a Concept Weekend Edition, and since there are a great number of concepts that didn’t make the cut, I’m focusing on them. Today’s especially Mazda-themed, and I’m starting with the 1987 Mazda MX-04 Roadster. And as…
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Last Call- Carriage On Thy Wayward Son Edition
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Long before there were cars and their related horsepower, there were Carriages that were actually powered by horses. This one is particularly notable for bridging that generational gap. Can you determine what the connection is before scrolling down to the comments or doing some sort of Google Fu? Image source: Flickr
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Doing It By the Book – Understanding the 1997 Ford Taurus
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You know I am the Hooniversal European Editor, when I go ga ga over a 1997 Ford Taurus. Yeah, the ovoid Taurus must be one of the most mundane things you can imagine over at the other side of the pond, but here they’re rare birds. Mondeos are everywhere, Scorpios are common, but a Taurus…
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R.A-S.H: Ssangyong Korando
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On our first visit to Korea we looked at a very, very normal car with humble beginnings. It was the Hyundai Stellar, which hid recycled Cortina underneath an off-the-shelf Giugiaro body. Hyundai were easing themselves into the international car sales water at a sensible pace. Ssangyong took the absolute diametrically opposite approach.
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Introducing the Hooniverse Obscure Muscle Car Garage, built by you!
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Over the past few years there seems to be an explosion of vintage Muscle Cars available for sale, with values for GM Big Block, Mopar Hemi, and Ford Cobra Jet equipped vintage cars leading the pack in both dollar value, and desirability. Although values have started to cool, most are still out of the realm…
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The News for April 12th, 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: Maserati resurrects the Ghibli nameplate Aston Martin’s Hybrid Hydrogen Rapide S is ready to race Ford…