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Rampant Luxury Car Theft in Northern New Jersey
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It started with a random email from my friend Mike with a link to a local Wyckoff, New Jersey, newspaper. Someone’s BMW X6 M was stolen, right out of their driveway. It wouldn’t have raised my eyebrows if it was not for that specific high-end model. And the fact that it wasn’t recovered. And the…
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On-Board Lap in a Vintage F5000 Racer
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We’ve made no secret of our affection for Australia’s V8 Supercar series. Our friends over at Motorsport Retro pointed us towards this video. What happens when you take one of the legends of that series, and dump him into a vintage Formula 5000 race car for a lap? Well, he certainly performs well, but it…
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My Face Is On A Porsche Cayman
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Earlier in 2011, Porsche reached the 1 million fans mark on their Facebook social network page. Remarkably, later that year, Porsche also surpassed the 2 million fans mark. To celebrate the first milestone, Porsche put each and every fan’s name on the 997 GT3 R Hybrid that currently sits in the Zuffenhausen muesum. For the…
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Scorchio! – 1998 Fiat Punto Cabrio by Bertone
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Today it’s been raining constantly since noon. There’s no sight of a similar June day when I photographed this 1998 Fiat Punto Cabrio by the famous coachbuilder and design studio Bertone; it was one of those Finnish summer days that make you wish you had a cheap little droptop for errands, just like the ones…
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The Scubaru Lives – We've Got Video
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Last week, we posted a few photos and a translated tale of a Finnish guy reviving a 1996 Subaru Legacy that had slept for three months in the bottom of a Finnish lake. After the necessary maintenance steps (like letting out a non-insignificant amount of water from both the engine and the fuel tank), they…
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Quick Shift: Dunlop Decolletage
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We’re starting into an election season here in Alberta, or so everyone suspects, and this bus has been making the rounds of smaller towns, carrying the Wildrose party leader. This is all the more amusing since the Wildrose Alliance is the sort of party that likes to get offended by everything, and though they’ve tried…
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AMS Motorsports and the Nissan 300ZX Community: Is This Business as Usual?
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It happens all the time… a group of enthusiasts on an Internet message board find out that they all have the same problem with the car they love. Be it bad bushings, electrical problems, weak something-or-other, or any other item that might fail. They share their frustrations, discuss options, and come up with solutions. The…
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A Tale of Two Bradley GTs
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Growing up in Southern California in the 1980s, kit cars were a dime a dozen. But now, thirty years later, they seem to be rarer than Lamborghinis. In the last few months, I’ve had an accidental lesson in Bradleys, a new-to-me brand.
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Vorsprung durch Sauberkeit – 1990 Audi 100
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Did you find yesterday’s slammed VW a bit too unholy and modified? To balance it out, here’s an Audi 100 that lives just close by. It’s pretty much flawless and looks like it’s rolled off the assembly line two years ago, not twenty-two. The C3 Audi 100 has always been a high-riding car, and they…
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s Your Favorite Bond-Movie Car? (Spy Week)
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So it’s Spy Week and of course the most famous secret agent is none other than Valerie Plame James Bond. Dapper, cold blooded, and unflappably British, Bond is really the modern, well-mannered, interpretation of the hard-boiled detective formed by the likes of Poe, Hammett and Chandler. Bond has been celebrated in more than 26 films,…
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Georgia Tech’s Grassroots Motorsports $2011 Challenge Miata
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[singlepic id=3671 w=720 h=900 float=center] This past weekend, Greg “The News Editor” Kachadurian and I attended the Atlanta Cars and Coffee Caffeine and Octane. As we were heading out Greg said “checkout the wing on that Miata” and so we did. The car turned out to Georgia Tech’s Wreck Racing last year’s entry into…
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s the Most Zombie Car?
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Zombies are hugely popular these days what with the AMC series The Walking Dead and the NY Times best seller World War Z beheading to a theater near you. But what about zombie cars? Now, I don’t mean Zombie Apocalypse Survival Vehicles, after all everyone knows the best one of those is the Pontiac Aztek because…
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Hooniverse Classic Caption – The 1966 Studebaker Commander Edition
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Well it’s the second week of the new year, and I know I’m late for the Hooniverse Classic Caption Contest. This is the game in which I find images from all around the web that the car companies used in their brochures or advertisements, and it is up to you to come up with some…
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RIP Mr. Shelby
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EV Midget Build – Part 3 Front Suspension and Steering
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Now that the golf cart was stripped, I had pretty much all the parts I needed to build this thing. Now the task was just to meld together two different sets of parts that really, let’s face it, have no business being together. Click through to watch the square pegs neatly fitted into round holes.
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Last Call- Stanced to the Extreme Edition
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You know, this new lowrider fad is really getting out of hand. Image: [Imgur]