Articles
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Hooniverse Asks- What Manufacturer has the Coolest Factory Wheels?
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Nothing is perhaps more important when it comes to keeping your car or truck’s tires from just rolling away than it’s wheels. And, not only are they invaluable in that aspect, but they also remain one of the best ways to personalize your ride, as expression of your own, individual taste. But it’s not those…
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Last Call- Release the Kraken! Edition
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You know, anything from Russia is automatically weirder than its western counterpart, it just goes without saying. Maybe it’s because of the secrecy under which much of the former Soviet Union used to operate, or maybe its all the water of life that’s supposedly consumed there. Whatever the reason, even their engines – as exemplified by…
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R.A-S.H:- The 2003 Daihatsu Charade
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Time, once more, for the feature that Death Row inmates cite as their “#1 reason to keep livin’”. It’s R.A-S.H. Todays featured brochure is for a car that never really rocked the establishment in this country, either the generation in this particular publication or any of those that went before it. Fortunately, though, the brochure…
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Bonafide
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My first car was a pickup truck. When I got the call to contribute a word or two to the site, I sat down at my computer to come up with a few ideas. Although I’ve been hanging around the comments for a while now, this seemed like the perfect opportunity to tell you a…
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Video: The First Vroom-Vroom
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I don’t have kids. Currently, I have no desire to have children and neither does my wife. Still, that doesn’t mean I’m not curious about what little demon child angel the two of us would create. Our own Juan Barnett (AKA DCAutoGeek) does have a son. He, of course, hopes that his son will one…
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Truck Thursday – 1984 Toyota Hiace
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This 1984 Toyota Hiace stares at me with its cold round eyes all day every day. The garage in which it sits directly faces my office window, so it was inevitable I go shoot it one day. It also seems to be a well-enough preserved example of a trusty hauler, so it easily makes Truck…
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V.I.S.I.T. – 1976 Toyota Celica
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What have we here? On my daily commute to the office, I sometimes take a bus route that has me walking the last half mile to my office from the bus stop. Last week, while cutting through the parking lot of an office park, I spied this little number sitting by its lonesome near the…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Mythical Car Buying Rules Do You Still Follow
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Whether you go new or used, buying a car is usually a pretty big investment, and not a decision to be made without some forethought. For the longest time there were certain precepts that pretty much everyone attempted to follow, lest they end up with a lemon and facing the derision of friends and family.…
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Last Call- Don't Be Gull-ible Edition
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So this is just a Photoshop job, and a bit jaw dropping in its level of automotive blasphemy at that, but you know somewhere there’s somebody sitting there like that fancy cat meme, thinking, I should totally eff-up MY classic Merc! Image source: [MotorLegend]
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Boys and Their Toys
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The biggest two-seat coupe . . . in the world. Last week, Kamil shared with us a cool video of a crane lifting a crane. I was reminded of some pictures I sent in to the tips line last summer (you do know about ti**@********se.info, don’t you? Get to sharing!). While they didn’t merit their…
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R.A-S.H: The Vauxhall Astra
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Welcome to tonight’s instalment of the car brochure-based thread that our forefathers fought to protect, all those years ago. Thanks, guys. Today we’re cranking up the anodyne-o-meter to the max and covering one of The General’s more generic 1990s products. Try to stifle your excitement and act calmly; It’s the Vauxhall/ Opel Astra “F”.
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Wagon Wednesday – 1979 Volvo 245 Hearse
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What a wagon. Walking to my car in the underground carpark I noticed this Volvo converted for efficient hauling of people underground; it’s quite a bit older than the 900-series Begravningsbil I featured last spring. This 1979 car is surprisingly a silver one, and the paint is in very good condition. I’d expect a hearse…
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V.I.S.I.T. – The Wisconsin Glaciation Edition
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During the late Pleistocene era, specifically between 110,000 and about 12,000 years ago, the North American Laurentide ice sheet covered most of present-day Canada and US. This glacial formation extended southward toward the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast, and reached its peak about 21,000 years ago. This period is known (in nerd circles) as the…
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Pre-Season Sebring Jitters
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As things stand, we are less than one month from the 12 hours of Sebring, known by many as one of the most difficult races in the world. Many of the teams are scrambling to prepare for the event, fitting in some last minute testing, and taking a trip to the shaker rig! Greg…
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Craigslist Crapshoot
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It’s Wednesday and that means it’s time for Craigslist Crapshoot. And this week, I’m sending you on a special mission. Your mission, should you choo-choo-choose to accept it, is to find the world’s worst exotic cars for sale. Now, I don’t mean gold-plated Veyrons for ten mil, what fun would there be in that? No,…
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You've Let Yourself Go
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My, how you have grown. [The idea for this post came to me last night when I was running errands. In the span of a light cycle, I saw two sets of Subaru triplets pass through the intersection, followed by a Tribeca on my tail. I couldn’t help but notice how big and ungainly…