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San Francisco, Day Two: Exploring more Bay Area wonders
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No set plans: Two days exploring the San Francisco Bay Area in a rented Mustang GT Some things are hard to explain. Take, for example, an intangible like the connection between car and driver. But break it down and you can begin to build a picture of what goes into “the feeling”: things like the…
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San Francisco, Day One: “Slower traffic use turnouts”
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No set plans: Two days exploring the San Francisco Bay Area in a rented Mustang GT The sign stood there, motionless except for the small movements of the wind’s work, as does any sign. A reflection of the suggested all-important driving etiquette, it stands strong in the name of the enthusiast, always there, always a…
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"Coastal Range Rally LiteⓇ": Impressions of my first hooning in the California hills
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A Mazda6, an Abarth 500, and a life-changing experience driving the California canyon roads High in the hills east of Los Angeles is a near-mecca of hidden driving roads that deserve every bit of attention and even higher amounts of appreciation than they garner. To the locals these may be ordinary, but to me they…
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In pictures: A day at the 2018 New York International Auto Show
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[We’re a little late on this, but such is life. -KK] Wednesday March 28th kicked off the 2018 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS), one that would reveal a wide spread of everything from the most mundane people-movers to race-track-ready adrenaline-spikers and a massive variety of everything in-between. We saw debuts the likes of the…
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California road-trip review: 6 days and 656 miles with a 2017.5 Mazda6 Grand Touring
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From Los Angeles to Angeles National Forest, my fiancé and I learn what Mazda’s midsize sedan is like to live with, road trip, and hoon. The weather forecast for New York’s JFK airport was ominous to say the least. Heavy snow, high winds, the usual of what we’d come to expect from a particularly brutal…
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Some madman is building a coupe-ified, AWD, LM4-powered 1st-gen CTS-V
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The world of project cars is comprised of such a wide variety of vehicles and wide range of intensiveness required that the vastness never ceases to amaze me. While my own primary project is sometimes mentally all-consuming, it never crosses into the world of being described as “one-off” or “batshit crazy.” And it certainly requires…
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C5 Corvette Z06 – The holy grail of analog Corvettes
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The used market is a funny thing to watch and an even funnier one to shop. Amidst the “for the price of X, you could have a used version of Y!” articles and endless discussion of where money is better spent, it truly is remarkable to watch depreciation curves and play the much more important…
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Hooniverse Asks: Does Jeep need to keep calling it "Wrangler"?
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Would dropping the “Wrangler” name dilute the reputation of Jeep’s halo vehicle? Despite pushback from enthusiasts clamoring for real, fun, actual names, we’re living in an age of ever-increasing reliance on numbers and letters to stand as a vehicle’s name. And yet, the Wrangler name holds strong. Jeep has always been upfront about its internal…
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Hooniverse Asks: What car would you launch into space?
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Yesterday, Elon Musk and the team at SpaceX made history not only for their rocket launch but also for sending the first road-legal production automobile into Earth’s orbit. A monumental achievement, and one that us car nerds watched in awe. It was one small step for *ahem* another display of both Musk’s and SpaceX’s enthusiasm…
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2014 Challenger R/T: Proof that modern cars still cause headaches
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A comfortable, brutish display of nonstop problems: Looking back on what went wrong with my 2014 Dodge Challenger R/T 5.7/6MT 100th Anniversary Edition In June of 2014 I purchased my dream car: a Dodge Challenger R/T 100th Anniversary Edition. With eight cylinders up front, power sent to the rear and a six-speed manual, it was…
