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Help A Brother Out: Saab 9-3 Viggen
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I need your help. I found a low mileage Viggen and I think I want it. But I have no personal experience with Saabs in general nor with Viggens in particular. Is the Viggen a completely different animal from the regular 9-3? Are parts difficult to source? Are they unreliable? What should I be on…
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Cristiano Ronaldo's Crashed Ferrari Coming Soon To eBay – Finally
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Have you been in the market for an undrivable, unfixable totaled Ferrari 599 GTB? Got an extra $50-100k burning a hole in your pocket? Today’s your lucky day. Four years ago, soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo – then of Manchester United, now of Real Madrid – crashed his Ferrari 599 GTB into a wall while showing…
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The News for March 8th, 2013 [w/ bonus Editor Rant]
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News – Geneva Motor Show Edition! This weekly recap features the four biggest unveilings at the show without the fluff or the bull. I also throw in a little opinion of mine, just because I can. This week: The LaFerrari is your new Ferrari supercar – no, really Lamborghini Veneno is an Aventador…
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Mystery Car
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Some mysteries will probably never be solved- like where do lost socks go, or why other people’s farts smell so terrible when your own are usually quite pleasant. Thanks to the collective awesomeness of the Hooniverse, the weekly Mystery Car can’t be counted among those unknowables. In case you’re new here, the rules are to…
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Flashback – 1985 Honda Jazz/City Futura Cabriolet
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These shots of a perfectly preserved 1985 Honda City Cabriolet were taken in 2008, when I worked in the Helsinki webdesign office in the building behind it. Looking through the photos, I thought to myself, “Has it only been five years?” It certainly feels like a world away, and I hope the Honda is in…
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Hooniverse Asks- Do You Miss Console-less Cars?
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About a decade ago a Congressman from Idaho named Larry Craig got into a bit of a dice for playing footsie with what turned out to be an undercover police officer in an airport men’s room. Oops. His defense was somewhat laughable, he claimed that he simply has a “wide stance” and was looking for…
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Last Call- Cross Dressing Edition
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There’s so much incongruous gender attestation going on with this truck that I don’t know where to start. I think I’ll just leave this here and let you ponder its potential meaning. Image source: Imgur
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Video: Raptor Does the 'Ring
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The Ford Raptor: you love it or you hate it, but you can’t ignore it. Yes, it’s desert runner, not a grocery getter. It’s not a road course machine, either, but Tanner Foust doesn’t care. What you’re about to witness is simply amazing. Watch the clip, posted after the break. [Source: YouTube]
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Truck Thursday: One Huge Towing Machine
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This olelongrooffan has noted previously that I am fortunate enough to see some pretty cool vehicles at the place where I schlep trailers for a living. Today was no different. I spotted this huge ass truck pull in and the owners got out and headed to JeffTheBoss’s office to talk it up a bit about…
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Down on the Amsterdam Street – Jeep Cherokee
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Here are two quick shots of a wood-vinyled XJ Cherokee I saw in Amsterdam, for Truck Thursday’s sake. Like the majority of my Dutch sightings, it looked surprisingly clean and well-kept. With forest green paint and plastic wood, it looks very good indeed down to the wheels.
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R.A-S.H: The Lancia Fulvia
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Welcome to R.A-S.H, the series in which we separate the fact from the fantasy in old car brochures that should have been thrown out years ago. Or so my girlfriend says. In today’s instalment of R.A-S.H, there is actually an almost total lack of H. Today, the brochure text is informative and descriptive, and hyperbole…
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Video: Ferrari 458 enters the spin cycle on a wet road
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Proper throttle application can make a major difference when on a race track. Mash it coming out of a corner, and you’re likely to be slower than the guy or gal using smooth and progressive technique with the go pedal. This doesn’t just apply to racing though, as proper throttle modulation can make for a…
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Down on the Eindhoven Street – Kia Opirus
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I love the Kia Opirus. It’s a car so ungainly looking, it pretty much makes the googly-eyed mid-’90s Ford Scorpio look like a beauty queen. It’s an unquestionable rip-off of the Mercedes-Benz W210 E-class, combined with bits and bobs of the Jaguar S-Type – neither of which are particularly good-looking cars unless you’re an unquestioning…
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Mercedes-Benz touts Sprinter Safety and we go along for the ride
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There are only so many vehicles that seem like they might be fun to get on two wheels. Anything from the Bond series, if someone else is paying. A LeMons racer, if I’m paying. Near the top of the list of vehicles I don’t want to see doing their “Imma Motorcycle!” impression would be a…
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V.I.S.I.T.– Two Winnemucca Pontiac Bonnevilles
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Just before I bought my Phaeton, I decided to take a final road trip with my 2004 Acura TSX. Truth be told, I miss the little guy. It was easy to park, had a perfect six-speed manual transmission, and was easy to park. For its last hurrah, I took it on Highway 50 in Nevada,…
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Soviet Police Cars in 1:43 Are Cooler, Weirder Than Most Other Diecast Cars
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Not all Eastern Bloc police agencies were condemned to cars that hit 100km/h in 22 seconds flat. Some lucky departments got cars that managed to hit that speed in a blistering 19 seconds, and could maintain high speeds for entire minutes at a time, until the benzine ran out and they had to pull over…