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Toyota’s new GA-B platform seems exclusively designed for hybrid vehicles
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The whole world right now is losing its mind over Electric Vehicles – EVs, as the abbreviators call them. Keyboard experts go on and on about range and recharge time at various voltages, battery capacity, system efficiency, and a whole of other stuff that no one was really teaching in Electrical Engineering classes two decades ago.…
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Hooniverse Asks: Do you see your car on Google Maps?
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Google Maps is one of the greatest things to happen to internet since pr0n. And with Street View™ one can sort of go traveling to faraway places without ever leaving their bedroom. Street view also allows us to see the various cars that are in the given section of the world, which is always entertaining.…
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/DRIVE on NBCSN returns for its sixth season
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In addition to Proving Grounds, NBC Sports Network is bringing back /DRIVE on NBCSN, or as I call it SlashDrive, for its sixth season. The usual host suspects, Chris Harris, Mike Spinelli, Alex Roy, Kristen Lee, and Zack Klapman are coming back for six hour-long episodes. To keep things simple, all episodes will air after Proving Grounds on NBC…
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Hooniverse Asks: What’s a better Taycan model name?
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https://twitter.com/jglucker/status/1169284464125472768 Porsche is known for having ridiculous model names for the 31 flavors of each vehicle they make. The new electric Porsche, the Taycan was just revealed. It currently has two model names – Turbo and Turbo S. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that these EVs do not actually have any turbos…
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Wagon Wednesday: A reminder that a 415hp Volvo wagon exists
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The Volvo S60 is a great little sedan, as we have recently learned. In my review I mentioned that the best part is that it is also available in a longroof version as the V60. The all-wheel-drive turbocharged and supercharged V60 T6 would sure make a sweet grocery-getter. In other parts of the world, where people…
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About those unsold 2018 Jeep Wranglers
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There have been a number of articles popping around regarding the fact that there are huge amounts of unsold 2018 Jeep Wranglers on dealer lots. iSeeCars has conducted a study of which 2018 model year vehicles there are the most of on dealer lots in August of 2019, and the Wrangler tops this list. But none…
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Watch me race in the Pro-Am Gran Turismo Championship
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The FIA-Certified Gran Turismo Championships is a professional eSports world championship tournament. It is played on the latest rendition of the Gran Turismo (GT) video game, Gran Turismo Sport. The championship was somewhat quietly launched in 2018 but has gathered quite the following from the GT faithful. Last weekend the 2019 world tour came to New York City. This…
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We chat with the creator of Gran Turismo, Kazunori Yamuchi and Scott Clark from Michelin
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The FIA-Certified Gran Turismo Championships took place this weekend in New York City. We will discuss this in more detail later on. This coincided with the Gran Turismo and Michelin announcement we mentioned earlier. The event also provided me with an opportunity to chat with Kazunori Yamauchi, the CEO of Polyphony Digital and producer of the now-iconic…
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Hooniverse Asks: Do you really want a small, base pickup truck?
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Pictured is something that is no longer available – a base model, regular cab, short-bed, mid-size pickup truck. This one was equipped with a bench seat, manual transmission, and 4×4. It probably had crank windows and manual locks, too. It was also shockingly clean and because of where it was parked I wonder if it…
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Michelin and Gran Turismo partner up and it’s kind of a big deal
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The Gran Turismo videogame needs no introduction. It’s been around for over twenty years in various different formats. It went from being a car-modding game to driver educating simulator. It created the GT Academy which turned gamers into real world racers. In 2018 the FIA Gran Turismo Championship was created – an eSport racing series…
