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V.I.S.I.T. – Jeep Wagoneer
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Writing for Hooniverse often takes me to strange and dangerous places, like the parking lot of an Applebee’s. But it wasn’t the peppery smell of the 1,420 calorie Applebee’s Quesadilla Burger, or the tangy aroma of the 1,340 calorie Cheeseburger Sliders with Applewood Smoked Bacon that drew me there, delicious though they may be. Rather,…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Plasti-Dipped 1998 Saab 9000 CSE Turbo
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This 1998 Saab 9000 is one of the cars habitually appearing on the parking lot of my office complex. It probably belongs to a Saab enthusiast, and it’s been customized a bit with all the horizontal surfaces having been done over with a black matte material. It’s either vinyl wrap or Plasti-Dip, whatever has come…
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V.I.S.I.T. – 1996 Renault Mégane Coupé
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Chiquita, the banana company, advertise their products as “The Bright Spot in Every Day”. The same can be said of this very yellow Renault Mégane Coupé, that is one of the cars using yellow as a signature colour. When the Mégane lineup was launched in the mid-1990s, a handsome amount of the cars were eye-searingly…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Audi Ur-S4
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Remember these? That’s right, from waaaaaaay back in the 1990s. A decade when the interwebs were slow, revolutions weren’t televised, and pants were baggy. The 1990s were also a time when spy agencies didn’t talk about what they did on national television every day, and when wearing a foam John Deere cap meant you were…
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V.I.S.I.T. – 1976 Toyota Celica
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What have we here? On my daily commute to the office, I sometimes take a bus route that has me walking the last half mile to my office from the bus stop. Last week, while cutting through the parking lot of an office park, I spied this little number sitting by its lonesome near the…
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V.I.S.I.T. – The Wisconsin Glaciation Edition
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During the late Pleistocene era, specifically between 110,000 and about 12,000 years ago, the North American Laurentide ice sheet covered most of present-day Canada and US. This glacial formation extended southward toward the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast, and reached its peak about 21,000 years ago. This period is known (in nerd circles) as the…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Audi 4000 Coupe
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This is a different kind of Audi. Before Audi became the Audi of today, and sometime after it ceased being a DKW, Audi was what you see here. The Giugiaro design is a bit boxy and color sensitive viewed through today’s eyes, but it was quite stylish for the time and has aged well overall,…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Audi 5000
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Before Audi started selling literally dozens of Audi V8s on our shores following that whole 60 Minutes unpleasantness, we had the Audi 5000 as the third fiddle in the German triumvirate of executive sedans. Actually, things weren’t going too bad for Audi during those years. The year before that program aired Audi managed to sell…
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Weekend Edition – V.I.S.I.T. – Renault Alliance Convertible
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If it was 1987 outside and you wanted a flash European convertible, you had some options. At the top of the price range were the Mercedes-Benz SL and the Jaguar XJS, which had been in production for waaay too long but were still selling like hotcakes. Alfa was still selling its ever-popular Spider, which was…
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Weekend Edition – V.I.S.I.T. – Preservation Class Edition
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If there was ever a car that looked like it had been sitting in a garage in some town in upstate New York since the Carter administration, right next to a plaid sofa and a bunch of Atari 2600 consoles, this was it. I spotted this Fiat 128 2-door saloon on the not-particularly-mean streets of…
