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Hoonicast #5: Epic Road Trip Tales from Beyond! (With Bonus CAS Coverage)
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Remember the road trip sequence in Dumb & Dumber, that Jim Carey flick chocked so full of cheese and poor taste that it might as well have been a Domino’s pizza? How one minute they’re driving across the country in a van done up like a shaggy dog, the next Lloyd Christmas is dreaming about…
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Hooniverse German Lesson: Say "MARE-KOOHR!"
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Expensive. Poorly positioned in the market. Cursed by currency exchange rates. Saddled with a difficult to pronounce name. Sold out of indifferent Lincoln-Mercury dealers. Slow by today’s standards. Lima engine derived from a Pinto unit. Not especially durable. Also, one of the greatest vehicles ever to grace our undeserving shores; a brief glimpse into the…
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Bad Ideas Made Worse™ with Renault!
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Beautiful Mexico! Land of beaches, tiny shivering dogs in teacups, and horrific drug-related violence. It’s also where the VW Type 1 went to die, and where the full-size two door SUV lives an Elvis-in-Vegas afterlife among the agave and smog. You’ll be happy to know that it’s also the home of this particular fiberglass enchilada…
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Bad Ideas Made Worse with DIESEL!
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I know what you’re thinking: you’ve got stuff and it needs to move. Whether it be a mosquito fleet of mopeds, a Renault-powered Devin, or a small regional brewery’s worth of MGD cases, it’s gotta go. You need transport, son. Have I got a deal for you!
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Everyone Needs a Nixie-Tacho!
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHiYCZkAq5o[/youtube] Sure, the video is ten minutes long, or approximately 15 times your average attention span for anything (… SQUIRREL!!!). But let me be clear – you need to watch it. Here’s why: a) It’s a Holden/Isuzu Gemini wagon with a nixie-tube based tachometer. b) See above. Write-up is here. I love the internet sometimes.
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Hoonicast #3: Detroit Electronics Edition
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It’s that time again. Time for you to don some headphones and slide down in your cubicle, and tune in for about an hour of the most Hoontastic bull-shooting session on the doggone planet. In this episode, we discuss the goings-on in Detroit at the North American International Auto Show and some more of what…
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CES 2011: eCoupled Induction Charging for EVs
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While stumbling, bleary-eyed, dead on my feet, across a hall so large the curvature of the earth would have been visually apparent were it not for a vast sea of similarly stumbling event attendees, I spotted a Tesla Roadster at the Fulton Innovations stand. The Tesla was charging … without wires! “What unnatural divination be…
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CES 2011: the Ford Focus Electric Reveal
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Hey folks, I was down in Las Vegas at the Hilton Convention Center at Alan Mulally’s keynote address for the reveal of the Ford Focus Electric, an open secret for the last few months. Glancing over the specs, it looks promising – particularly when you get to the recharge times of the 23kW battery …
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Speed Reads: The Battle for the Beetle by Karl Ludvigsen
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It’s difficult to not be fascinated by the once-ubiquitous Volkswagen Beetle, from its conception as a pet project of arguably the worst person in history to its unprecedented success. It has also been a veritable primordial ooze from which thousands upon thousands of Hoon-worthy project cars, kit cars, and race cars crawled to meet their…
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Das 929 Koupe Begs for Kraftwerk Mix Tape
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I submit to you this – the most 1980s vehicle to grace this crazy globe we call Earth. It’s managed to survive these past 28 years without turning into a roughly rectangular oxide sculpture, and is currently enjoying an extended run of salad days in Deutschland, of all places. Grab some louvered glasses and a…
