Articles
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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.
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The Mecum Auction – Kissimmee, FL 2010
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I am sitting on a plane heading back to Orange County, California after attending the Mecum Auto Auction in Orange County, Florida. I am typing this from over 30,000 feet in the sky and even though I am exhausted I am still excited. This was my first time attending a major auction and I got…
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Spot the Pony
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Do you remember that picture of a pinto pony against a snowy backdrop, where the horse seems to blend in with its surroundings? Well, Ford does, and if you’re a Facebook friend of the Company, you can see their take on that picture in one of the teaser shots for the upcoming uni-body Explorer. Typically,…
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Showdown: Vannin'
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If there’s one trend that Hoons the world over mourn, it’s the penchant for extraordinarily hairy men to gut a shorty van and fill it full of shag carpet, teardrop windows, and sci-fi murals. Unlike that terrible swing dancing trend that nauseated the country for several years in the ‘90s, we think that shag vans…
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Hooniversal Calendar of Events is now online
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Just a quick post to let everyone know the event calendar is up now. Find it under the Hooniverse logo next to the Hoonimerch link. Thanks to everyone for all the submissions! Keep the tips coming and we will do our best to keep the calendar up-to-date. We also plan to run a regular feature on…
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What to do With a Ferrari 250GTE Roller?
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Typically when we see a ride this rough, it’s an $800 Falcon and we scheme about swaps of revvy 289s or stealing a new 5.0L and showing the Nova guys what’s what. But what to do with a classy GT like this? The GTE (that’s a 2+2, by the way) is sort of the red…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Excised Car Feature Do You Miss Most?
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The earliest cars came with cranks to get them started. That being more of a burden than a feature, when electric starters became reliable enough, the crank start (for the most part) was abandoned for the ease of electricity. But other features have become either equally redundant due to more modern technologies, or have become…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Spawn of Scottish Militant Left-wing Shipbuilders Edition
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I’ve written about the troubled but awesome Imp before, but I’ve never seen one off the track (where they’re less troubled and more awesome, generally speaking). And then this little bastard comes into view, parked in my new mecca for automotive randomness, Ballard.
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Two … Er, Make that Three-Wheel Tuesday Review: 2010 Ural Patrol T
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Last week, Hooniverse reviewed the 2010 Ural Solo sT, Ural’s newest product, and this week we’re looking at an updated version of the Ural that started it all – the Patrol. While the Solo broke new ground for Ural, the bread-and-caviar of their product lineup is the iconic Patrol. No one is going to claim…
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Hooniverse Asks- Now That Hummer is Dead, is it a Good Time to Buy a Hummer?
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General Motors pulled the plug on Hummer yesterday, after failing to come to terms with Chinese investors who finally realized that the “hummers” they were buying didn’t involve women in fishnets and hotpants. Now that they aren’t buying Hummer, do you think you should buy one? Originally built by AM General, and intended as a…
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Last Call- The General Wee Edition
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Royalty ain’t what it used to be, down in Hazzard County. Image source: [Reddit.com]