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Hooniverse Asks- Have You Ever Gotten an Incredible Deal on a Car?
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You know the myth- a small ad in the local paper lists a Porsche or muscle car of some sort at an unbelievable price. The buyer calls up the seller, who turns out to be a woman going through a divorce. She says that her soon to be ex has run off with his secretary…
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Hooniverse Asks- Dark Meat or White Meat?
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The top car colors have traditionally been black, white and silver, although they alternate in order year to year. While certain cars just look better in a lighter or darker hue, what’s your personal preference? Do you like your car to be tighty-whitie clean, or satan-soul black? Or, somewhere in the middle?
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Hooniverse Asks- What Car Do you Wish Was Made, But Isn't?
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Entry-level Porsche, Mid-engine Corvette, or the mythical phoenix that is the Pontiac Trans Am, is there a car out there that, if they’d just build the damn thing, you’d be camped in front of the dealer to buy one?
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Hooniverse Asks- Stealing From Top Gear Edition
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Last night on Top Gear -in between building the world’s most dangerous electric car and pirouetting a Vette around the track like their were Dancing with the Stars, Clarkson brought up a question that they are asking for an upcoming show- which is What car maker has built the most great cars?
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Hooniverse Asks- What External Modifications Have You Made to your Car?
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Mud flaps, wheel well lights, spinners and portholes. There’s a wallet-emptying array of crap in the automotive aisle of your local Walmart to make sure no one ever mistakes your car for theirs. Hoons generally like their cars light and lean, without any extraneous accoutrements, but sometimes you just can’t resist that Peeing Calvin sticker.
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Hooniverse Asks- What Vehicle Would You Most Like to Drive Cross-Country?
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The road trip, it’s almost a right of passage for hoons. Having made a number of transcontinental trips- in every manner possible, from leisurely tourist, to balls to the wall speed demon, I can attest to the allure of the open road.
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Hooniverse Asks- How Much Control Are You Willing to Give Up?
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Wired has an article about autonomous cars on their site. It claims that traffic accidents cost the U.S. over $230 billion annually. A large part of that being health care costs due to the injuries sustained. Active safety measures, including airbags and ABS brakes are not paying the dividends in lower accident rates that they…
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Hooniverse Asks- Have You Ever Gotten the Boot?
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We all know the drill; you come back to your car an find a narrow strip of paper flapping under one of the wiper arms. It’s a parking ticket, but as it was given to the car, and not to you, there’s an absence of ownership to the fine and you simply shrug it of…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's Your Favorite Road?
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Most hoons like to drive, and many of us never get the chance to set tire to track. But that doesn’t stop us from enjoying a fine-handling car, and even at legal speeds there’s many a road that can be both challenging and entertaining- in the right car.
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Best Turbo Engine?
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With gas prices through the roof, and eco pod-people calling out conspicuous consumers of dead dinosaurs like they are the un-converted, car makers are once again revisiting the idea of smaller, forced induction engines in supersession of large, gas-hungry motors. This isn’t the first time for this sort of renaissance, and there’s a mess of…
