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Mystery Car
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In the song Mystery Achievement, Chrissie Hynde just wanted to get out on the floor and do the Cuban Slide. Solving today’s Mystery Car may make you want to get up and dance, but first, you’re going to have to do the heavy lifting and figure out what it is. Those of you…
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Where do we go from here? A question about what the future holds for automotive auctions
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A lot of your favorite automotive journalists are hunkered down in Scottsdale, Arizona at the moment. The reason, of course, is because the Barrett-Jackson circus is back in town, and millions of dollars worth of sheet metal will cross the block over the course of a few days. I myself am heading to Florida next…
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Hooniverse Asks- What NAIAS Debut Gives You The Biggest Car Boner?
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The North American International Auto Show is America’s car show – sort of like the Super Bowl and World Series all rolled into a single week’s worth of buy our new crap please automobilia. The show will be opening to the public tomorrow and runs through Sunday of the following weekend. Of course,…
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Last Call- They Come in Bags? Edition
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I wonder if that’s really a toll-free number? Image: [Imgur]
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R.A-S.H: The Datsun Pulsar
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Welcome to episode four of the series that Newsweek has quoted “…is to the world of Car Brochures what the violin is to classical music”. In the late 1970’s and the early ’80s there were myriad small family cars each trying to persuade the masses from the big beasts of burden that Mum and Dad…
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Truck Thursday – 2003 Hummer H2
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Not even Finland is safe from Hummers. Every now and then, it’s pretty easy to run into a H2. H1:s are rarer, but they too do exist here, even if straight off the top of my head I can’t think if a more cantankerous machine to manoeuvre in Finnish town traffic. In my mind, the…
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Video: Lego Custom Car Garage is a time-lapsed look at timeless fun
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I love Lego. I love time-lapse videos. I hate dubstep. Today, I’m giving you two out of three. YouTube user MrEverything1987 has posted a video that shows the creation of three vehicles and a garage, all done with our favorite medium. The time-lapsed result is a clip that will have you entertained for the duration…
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Detroit 2013 – Where can I buy this Cadillac?
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I recently finished shooting a new episode of The Hooniverse, and the subject of the video is the Cadillac CTS-V coupe. The clip is shot, edited, and ready to roll, and I should have it up next week. That car was a blast to pilot around downtown LA, well after the sun went down. Still,…
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Detroit 2013 – The best seat at the show
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I needed to get out of the basement that is the Detroit Auto Show press room, and take an automotive walkabout. Finding that stunning redhead Zach Bowman, we set off to find stuff that made us smile. There was a lot of folks wandering around, doing their job; i.e. making crap thirty-minute handheld videos of…
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V.I.S.I.T. – 1989 Peugeot 505S V6
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If you don’t immediately recognize this car from the back from a distance (like I didn’t), that’s because the North American-market 1989 Peugeot 505 sedans, for reasons not well understood by scientists, arrived on our shores with European-spec tail lights and rear bumpers. As much as I’d like to chalk up the random appearance of…
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Hooniverse Asks- BMW 4-Series, Brah! or Blah?
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The BMW 3-series is not only the brand’s Brot und Butter here in the States, but as the basis for the legendary M3 Bro-mobile, it has secured itself a place in the pantheon of history’s most beloved platforms. And now it seems that, for the two-door coupe at least, the end of the road is near. At…
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Last Call- Drive-Thru Dunderhead Edition
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Maybe he’s dropping off? Image: [Imgur]
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Craigslist Crapshoot
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Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly dive into the deep end of the pool filled with the automotive world’s most horrible road warriors – that you could potentially buy. After two weeks of this, a couple of things have become apparent- one, there’s a lot more crap out there than you could possibly imagine, and…
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R.A-S.H: The Isuzu Piazza
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Welcome to the sixth part of what David Bowie says is “the only Automotive Brochure related series worth bothering with”. Staying true to the format established thus far, we’re leaping geographically and chronologically to England in 1985, for the UK issue of a Japanese car that ended up being far more commonly seen overseas. It’s…
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Hooniverse Asks- Do Modern Performance Cars Rely Too Much on Tech?
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Back when it was introduced in 1992, the Dodge Viper was notable both for what it had – 10 cylinders and gobs of horsepower – as well as what it didn’t, which was most of the electronic nannies that keep you from getting into trouble. That lack of traction control, launch control, ABS brakes…
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Last Call- The Singer and the Dancer. . . and Marilyn Edition
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Singer may be better known for their pre-war products, but the British car maker did put forth a concerted effort following the end of hostilities to make a go of it. In America, that included having Marilyn Monroe’s curves compete with those of the SM1500 roadster in advertisements. No surprise, Marilyn won. Here’s…