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Fiat 500 + Kawasaki ZX12 motor = Awesomosity!
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The YouTube page for this video simply says “no description available,” but is any really necessary? All you need to know is that this is a tiny Fiat 500 fitted with a 1200cc jar of hornets.
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Last Call- What's Your Commute Like? Edition
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This is likely the oddest video you will see today.
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Hooniverse Asks- What Non-Car Company Would You Most Like To See Build One?
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Most of the companies building cars these days have been doing so for decades, and a couple for over a century. The newest kids on the block, Telsa and the like, arose from the either as single-purpose car builders. That doesn’t mean there isn’t room for more at the table, and there’s plenty of brands…
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Hooniverse Asks – What's the Strangest Towing Setup You've Ever Seen?
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My summers are typically spent traveling around the lower 48 states by car and I have the luck of being passenger/navigator/snack distributor about 75% of the time. The travel is mostly car related so I’m always in an automotive state of mind, scanning the lanes of traffic for something unique/interesting/insane to pass the time. I…
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If You're Not Attracted to this Alfa, There's Probably Something Wrong with You
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If you’re reading this, something may well already be wrong with you, but that’s the right kind of wrong. Failure to recognize the attractiveness of this fine piece of Italian engineering is a definite sign of the wrong kind of wrong. Up for auction is a 1974 Alfa Romeo GTV 2000, complete with Alfa’s SPICA…
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Play The Car Transporter Game!
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Okay, so it’s not really all that much of a “game”, per se. There’s no prize, no winners or losers, and no penalties if you get it wrong. So in that sense, it’s like any game intended for children today; we want to ensure that we preserve your self-esteem. As we all know, whether you…
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The Party Truck Brings the Dance, You Still Need to Supply the Ruffies
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This truck totally kicks ass at Dance Dance Revolution. Also, if you drive it through West Hollywood, you’re definitely getting lucky, cowboy.
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Manx!
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\Spring’s here and it’s time to make the most of it. How better to do that than in the OG Dune Buggy, a Meyers Manx? The seller lists this as a 1960, but Meyers wasn’t selling the kits until ’64, so we’re guessing it’s the Bug that is (was?) the 1960 model. This one looks…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's History's Best Ford?
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Yesterday, we considered which has been history’s greatest Chevrolet. And, while the bow tie brigade has had a dozen or more contenders plying America’s highways over the years, their competition over at the House of Henry has provided the World with some of the most memorable cars and trucks available for over 100 years.
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Pay No Rent! Accepting Neighborhood Close to Campus – Best Flier Ever
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We’re not done with our vannin’ shenanigans, oh no. This is an actual flyer pulled from a (real, physical) bulletin board right around the end of the school year back my UCSD days. No, this didn’t become Chez Mad_Science…but it was briefly under serious consideration, given rent prices in the vicinity of La Jolla. Do…
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Meet the Ghazal-1: a Real-Life Canyonero, with No Sense of Irony
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Ghazal-1! Ghazal-1! Looking like something from the background of a mid-90s cartoon, the Ghazal 1 is Saudi Arabia’s first and most earnest attempt to break into this “automobile manufacturing” fad. Saudi Arabia, as we all know, has far too much oil sitting beneath their windswept sand dunes, and dagnabbit, they just can’t give it away!…
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Any simpler and you'd drive it naked: the strange, charming Norsjo Shopper
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Combining the elegance of a parking lot ticket booth with the speed and sex appeal of a Hoveround, the Norsjö Shopper comes from us via Sweden, a European country known for its high rate of alcohol consumption as well as its periods of darkness where the sun isn’t seen for days at a time, which…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's More American, Ford or Chevy?
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Let’s say that the Great Gazoo arrives from Planet Nine and it’s your responsibility to explain to him about the people of the Earth. Naturally, being a firm believer in American Exceptionalism, you want to pump up our great nation in case he’s seeking world domination, and you want to make sure that we’re seen…
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Hooniverse Posting Guidelines
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Content: In general, we try to lean to the positive side of things. DUIs, people dying, etc, not so much. When it comes to vehicular abominations (that purple thing from the other day), they’re fair game, but you can’t just do a big cranky rant. Get creative…the general goal is to be a nexus of…
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Hooniverse Asks- How Small is Too Small?
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As Americans, we usually like our stuff big. We’re always super-sizing our food, embiggening our big screens, and the boobs, don’t get me started on those. Our cars traditionally reflected this bigger is better mind set, gaining both length and width until our highways resembled an armada of aircraft carriers in the mid-’70s. Fuel price…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's History's Greatest Dodge?
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We’ve previously asked about your candidates for the best from the bread and butter brands from Ford and GM, and today, we want to know your opinion of what’s the greatest car or truck that Chrysler’s blue collar make has ever offered.