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2019 Acura NSX: Updated & revisited
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It’s kind of crazy to think that the current Acura NSX has been on sale for three years now. In that time it has proven itself to be quite a great sports car, if somewhat understated and possibly overshadowed by the world’s current lineup of so-called hyper-cars. And that is really unfair as this is…
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About that new turbocharged Wrangler engine…
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I used to own a TJ Wrangler with the 2.5-liter AMC four cylinder engine. It was a rather crappy engine, with all of 120hp on tap. On a good day, going downhill with tail wind, my soft-toped, 5-speed (3-speed automatic was optional!) Jeep could almost hit a speedo-indicated 75mph. The 4.0-liter in-line six was the…
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Hooniverse Asks: What car did you love but then hate once you drove it?
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Jeff and I were chatting sometime ago about his Montero. I was supposed to be in the LA area a few weeks back and offered to loan it to me for my time there. I never drove one but I always kind of, sort of, liked them. My father had a big poster of the…
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Last Call: Instant Infrastructure Improvement
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From the Massachusetts State Police: Ramp from Rte 128 northbound to Rte 95 northbound closed for extended period due to liquid asphalt truck rollover. No other vehicles involved. Non life-threatening injuries to the operator. This, folks is an easy and fast way of immediately upgrading all our roads. Spill so liquid asphalt, enough to cover…
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Last Call: BMW Land Cruiser Edition
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Having successfully completed the joint venture of Z4 and Supra development, BMW and Toyota are now supposedly in talks to develop an off-road capable utility vehicle. The ugly renders of the vehicles above aside, this isn’t a horrible idea. Toyota has been making some of the world toughest and best 4x4s for decades. Perhaps BMW…
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Hot Take: Let’s make race cars street legal
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Driving to the RedBull Ring to parse F1 Race pic.twitter.com/nHMUwFwC8V — Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (@Glickenhaus) June 24, 2019 I don’t mean let’s allow Formula 1 cars to be driven from one’s organic coffee shop to the pedicurist. No, I mean let’s build more race cars that can be driven on the streets, sort like rally…
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The not-so-sophisticated air conditioning system of Eastern Bloc’s Ikarus buses
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Located in a rather northerly part of the world, Poland isn’t exactly a tropical country. It’s so far north that winter days can see less than eight hours of daylight. The daylight makes up for it in the summer, however with the longest day being almost 17 hours long. There are four distinctive seasons but…
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Last Call: Parking it like it’s a Bimmer
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Ya think this pilot drives a bimmer? He sure parks like he does. Boeing 737 MAXs have been grounded for some time. Typically airports are not designed to store planes, so this is an issue because planes are kind of big. TUI Airways had to use the employee parking lot to store their MAXs until…
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Separated at birth – Lancia Stratos and Lamborghini Urraco
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I found this picture somewhere in teh internet‘s darker corner and instantly became puzzled. This is a Lancia Stratos production line, obviously. But to the right of it a production line for the Lamborghini Urraco. What the two vehicles have in common is that they were designed by Bertone and they were made at about the…
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Hooniverse Asks: Should we overland when outbacking isn’t enough?
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Following the transformation of the Subaru Legacy wagon into the Subaru Outback, the world has lost its mind. Suddenly everyone wanted, no they needed, a vehicle that was capable enough to effortlessly power through anything that the suburban jungle could throw at them. And in recent times it’s getting worse, with the whole ridiculous overlanding…
