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Attention all you "automotive sentimentalists", the manual transmission is bad for the world
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A recent article on Salon.com starts things off with the headline “Is it ethical to drive stick?” Now, we don’t normally get our automotive news from Salon… hell, we just browse Craigslist, eBay, and Autotrader all day. This particular headline, however, caught our attention in the same way that coke-snorting car-stealing hooker/stripper meth dealers catch…
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Last Call- Pretty Fly for a Kobayashi Guy Edition
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You may have seen Kamui Kaoayashi’s Sauber C31 Formula car split in two like a butterfly’s chrysalis, but did you know that he could also get it to spread its wings and fly? Image: [The Sun]
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Hooniverse Classic Captions – The 1988 Suzuki Samurai Edition
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It’s Monday, so it must be time once again for the Hooniverse Classic Caption Contest. My full time job seems to be getting in the way of bringing you this post on Monday, but I will do my best from now on. Here is the premise for this feature; I search for images that were…
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Hooniverse Goes To Baltia – Random Cars of Estonia
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With compliments to commenter Manic_King for his excellent write-up on buying cars in the times of the USSR, I felt it apt to share some photos of my recent trip to Estonia. As the Baltic Sea country regained independence in 1991, the gates opened for economic growth to come rumbling in – and the daily…
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Mystery Car!
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It’s a new year, and a new Mystery Car!, and hopefully we won’t fall into the same old routine of the contest being solved in a matter of minutes. After all, that was so last year. Today, we have a car that might not be familiar to you all, but will to a select few.…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Tape and Decal Special Edition is Your Secret Crush?
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Over the decades, there’ve been two types of automotive special edition – the make it go faster ones, and the make it look cooler ones. Typically we are only interested in the former, each of us being the type eager to wring out every last drop of handling and performance possible out of our cars.…
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NYIAS – The Very Sad State of Suzuki Cars
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Yesterday, I wrote about the vary sad state of Mitsubishi Cars. Well, there is another Japanese Car Brand that has been available here in North America for some time and that is Suzuki. The lineup is starting to look a bit stale, with nothing new since the Kizashi mid-size sedan. Take a look and see…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Car Needs a Wagon Edition?
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Wagons, we love ’em. In fact we can’t get enough of them, so much so that even though yesterday was Wagon Wednesday, I’m keeping the dream alive by having a wagon-oriented Hooniverse Asks today. USA! USA! USA! Oops, I mean Wagons! Wagons!Wagons! The thing of it is though, not every car that should come in wagon…
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Hoonverse Weekend Edition: Last Call: No Hoon Love For the Austin Cambridge?
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In one of the Weekend Edition posts, the Austin Cambridge was described as being a bit underpowered. I would suspect the owner of the above reference race truck would disagree. But… this olelongrooffan would suspect that, fully loaded, the driver of this Sri Lankan derived sedan delivery would agree. Image Source: Cambridge Race Truck=Google, Cambridge…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Car or Truck Has Gone From Fabulous to Freakshow in the Span of a Single Model?
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Have you seen Lindsay Lohan lately? Damn, talk about rode hard and put away wet. It’s a total shame too because she used to be quite the looker, all ginger of hair and freckled of face. Kind of the reverse of the old maxim: better living through chemistry, huh? Some cars too suffer from a degradation…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – Random Shots from the New York Auto Show
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Since this is a holiday weekend (Easter and Passover by the way) I will be posting some random shots from my time at the New York International Auto Show that is open to the public right now. I will try and describe each picture with a caption. As a member of the elite Hoon Task…
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Motorboat Monday: Folding Boat on a Motorcycle Trailer
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Have you ever found your wishing to ride your motorcycle to your secret fishing spot? Sure, we all have, but it has been all but an impossible dream. Until now. Folks, I present to you… the little folding fishing boat that goes on a little trailer which can be pulled by your motorcycle. [Source: Kansas…
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Setting The Pace For The Racing Action
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The variety of vehicles this olelongrooffan saw this past weekend still continues to astound me and I hope my fellow Hoons enjoy my sharing of them with you. One of the many Barrett-Jackson worthy items I saw was this pair of Camaros, one old, one new. There were a few more and make the jump…
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Hooniverse Has Been Plagiarized!
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I am not sure if this is a sign of success or obscurity but one of Hooniverse’s reviews has been plagiarized. We were alerted by the awesome Juan Barnett of DCautogeek that Jeff’s review of the Cadillac CTS-v Sport Wagon has been blatantly copied and pasted into Limited Slip Blog’s review of the same car.…
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Not Your Average Nurburgring Video: BMW Procar + Klaus Graf
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Is there such a thing as an ordinary Nurburgring video? Can anyone ever get sick of watching cars drive around that glorious green hell in the Eifel mountains? In this case, championship sports car driver Klaus Graf is filmed flogging a retired BMW Procar M1. This is no ordinary Procar, though. This particular car was…
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Two wheeled Tuesday – Your first two wheel love
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As the winter rolls on it’s time to start thinking about spending time on two wheels. The story of a person’s first experience buying a motorcycle can be just as informative as their first car. Your first motorcycle can speak volumes about your personality or it could have been strictly for cost. My first motorcycle back…