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Detroit 2013 – Audi RS7 is a ground-seeking missile dressed in a tuxedo
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Minus those terrible wheels, the 2014 Audi RS7 is everything I need in a new car. It’s wickedly fast, looks damn good, and seats four people plus gear. I might just steal this car right off the show floor, and drive it back to Hooniverse HQ. If you don’t find my body, it’s because I…
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From YouTube to Live Hot Pursuit Coverage in 30 Seconds Flat
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This is just too perfect. What starts out as a typical YouTube video of some guy’s TV showing a police chase in Inglewood, California takes a rather sudden and unexpected turn for the better. Just wait for it… Also if you’re at work and don’t wish to hear YouTuber Jason Lee eloquently summarize his once-in-a-lifetime…
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Detroit 2013 – The Acura NSX, now with more interior! (kind of)
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This one is for Muthalovin’… It’s the Acura NSX concept, and we’ve all seen it over and over. That’s not necessarily a bad thing though, because it looks rather badass. Still, we want to learn more about what the production version will ultimately look like, and we’ve come one step closer. How? There’s an interior with this…
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The Rusted Husk of a Jensen Interceptor III Convertible is Surprisingly Valuable
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Jensen Interceptors have always intrigued me, mostly because they use a Detroit-sourced drivetrain in a decidedly non-Detroit body. Well, that and a combination of being not all that great and kinda forgotten makes for some surprisingly cheap driver-grade examples. Here’s a runner for $13k in LA. Today’s example goes well beyond “driver-grade with cosmetic issues”…
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Hoonivercinema- Speed of Light
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Described in its 70’s lurid title sequence as the World’s Smallest Chase, this awesomely clever video is the chase we all imagined our model cars and other toys having, across the congested and crowded streets and alleys of our living rooms and dens, back when we were growing up. Check out the great…
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Detroit 2013 – The Mercedes-Benz CLA
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I’m face to face with the Mercedes-Benz CLA… And I’m rather impressed. It’s not out on the show room floor, but I’ve been ushered into a cloth-covered back room that hides this new shapely machine. Essentially, it’s a baby CLS, and it’s going to cost around $30,000. It will undercut the C-Class sedan, and it…
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Classic Captions – The 1976 Dodge Aspen SE Edition
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Welcome to the Hooniverse Classic Captions Post. This is a series of postings that are set to go off at this time almost every Tuesday, so let’s review the premise; I search for images that were used by the car companies in their print advertising or brochures, and it is your job to provide a…
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Hooniverse Asks- What is History’s Greatest Corvette?
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The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette made its debut Sunday at Detroit’s incongruously named North American International Auto Show. The ‘Vette may be more at home in Bowling Green Kentucky, but truth be told, its birthplace was (almost) the Motor City- a couple hundred Blue Flame six-powered examples being hand built in 1953 in a…
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Last Call- Trip The License Light Fantastic Edition
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The other night I was heading down the 5 freeway – because that’s just how I roll – when I came upon something that I’ve never seen before. The Audi A6 ahead of me – this one powered by the 2.0T – had these odd reflections on its bumper. At first I thought they were…
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Finnish Line – For Sale: 1985 Mazda 323 Turbo Sleeper
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Not too long ago, I read a TTAC Junkyard Find piece by the esteemed Murilee Martin, in which he remarked the early-’80s, FWD 323 GLC:s he used to drive were good – maybe not great, but close – little cars, offering better bang for buck than the more fun to drive Civic of the time.…
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Hooniverse Bookshelf: Cars of Eastern Europe: The Definitive History
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You know when you’re watching a Hollywood film set in Eastern Europe or Russia, and there is a whole mishmash of cars that parade across the screen that you suspect as being in the wrong place at the wrong time, like an UAZ 469 rubbing shoulders with a Polski Fiat and an Oltcit, in what’s…
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Detroit 2013 – The most interesting car at the show
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Hey all, I’m in Detroit for some sort of car show. So far, I’ve only seen a few things though, and, disappointingly, none of them have been roving gangs of Robocops. One thing I did see, however, is very cool and I snapped a few pics for you real quickly. This is a Toyota 2000GT, and…
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R.A-S.H: The Austin Allegro
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It’s part three of this now globally acclaimed series where we look at the hype, rhetoric or downright lies perpetrated by promotional brochures over the years. This week we’re winding the clock back to 1974 and heading for England, where we’ll be learning what British Leyland wanted us to think about one of the most…
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Hoonivercinema- Monday Music Video
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Urban environments and the automobile may not always get along, but there’s no doubt that over the past century cars have had a massive influence on the design and vibrancy of America’s great cities. While we normally have a traditional music video to start our week off – typically one in which cars play a…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Car Best Rocked the T-Top?
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There was a time, back in the seventies, when wild eyed and spittle spewing insurance actuarials deemed the automobile to be only slightly less dangerous than a thermonuclear device, or maybe giving Mike Tyson a wedgie. And a particular object of the insurance companies attention toward taking all of the fun danger out of cars…
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Weekend Edition Last Call – Meet a Comet that the owner thinks is all that!
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This was posted to the Brown Car Appreciation Society’s Facebook Page recently, by none other than Grassroots Motorsports author, Nick Pon. Yes, it’s a 70’s Mercury Comet Coupe… Yes, it’s on Chrome Dubs… Yes, those stickers are what you think it is. So is this car all that? Photo Source: The Brown Car Appreciation Society