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Weekend Edition: 1966 Volvo Amazon 122S
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This 1966 Volvo 122S is probably the nicest car I’ve seen this weekend. I shot it in Jyväskylä, central Finland, just casually sitting on a side street not far from the town centre. It’s wearing the right kind of Minilites, aux lights, mirrors, everything, and the paint is the right shade of brick red.
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Japanese Soft-Roader Weekend Edition: Suzuki X-90
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The previous cars posted in the Weekend Edition series have been wagons or hatchbacks, with the bodyshell a multi-purpose one despite the oftentimes jolly plastic dress-up or choice of colour. The Suzuki X-90 is something else, a small two-door SUV with a saloon-like trunk and a T-top. It’s definitely weird, despite being based on Vitara…
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Japanese Soft-Roader Weekend Edition: Toyota Corolla All-Trac Wagon
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One of the coolest Toyota wagons ever is the late-’80s, early-’90s E90 body All-Trac wagon, which differs greatly from the regular shape FWD wagon. The 4WD wagon took the fenders from the coupe-like Corolla Liftback 5-door, and mated them to a more avantgarde body, which was done up in the same style as the earlier,…
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Japanese Soft-Roader Weekend Edition: Honda Civic Shuttle Beagle
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One of the most iconic small Japanese 4WD wagons is the Honda Civic Shuttle, also known as the Wagovan in some markets. It combined the great basic car that was the EF-body Civic with a taller roof and more interior room, and as a bonus it was a go-anywhere four wheel drive car. The “Beagle”…
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Japanese Soft-Roader Weekend Edition: Mazda BU-X Concept & Demio
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Mazda also produced a fairly similar car to the Starlet Remix, called the Demio. Most everyone who spent their teenage years holed up in their bedroom, getting to grips with Gran Turismo, became familiar with the Demio, as it was one of the starter cars on the path to Pikes Peak Escudos. The Demio was…
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Japanese Soft-Roader Weekend Edition: Toyota Starlet Remix
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Japan is home to some very interesting developments of initially uninteresting cars. The Toyota Starlet is one such example, as it’s a honest, humdrum hatchback with no real styling effort seemingly undertaken at any point, except for the unapologetically jazzy seat trim. But give it seriously heavy-looking body cladding and available four-wheel-drive, and the car…
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The time still can't be right for the Renault Avantime – but it's cool
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The Renault Avantime is one of the bravest ideas for a mainstream manufacturer’s production car. In essence, we are talking about a personal luxury coupe three-door minivan, and one from France. It cannot have come as a surprise that it didn’t exactly sell like hot cakes; production lasted from 2001 to 2003, with little more…
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We gather around to watch an E92 M3 chase a Volvo 850 wagon
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[youtube width=”720″ height=”480″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-ouO8Ii74s[/youtube] Watching in-car videos is double-triple the fun when you share them with your car buddies. The Hooniversal HQ is no exception. I cued this clip of a Norwegian-registered, commendably quick Volvo 850 making it difficult for a BMW E92 M3 to keep up. It was a heated discussion… Bradley Brownell: I haven’t…
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Numero Uno: 1990 Giannini Fiat Uno Turbo i.e. Torino!
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This is one of the bulkiest-looking developments of the humble and boxy Fiat Uno hatchback. Small Italian cars are rarely anything but awesome, and when they’re all puffed up with a bodykit, packing a turbo engine, they get just that little bit cooler. The wonderfully historic Auto Giannini, originally founded all the way back in…