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  • Less With The Mouth, More With The Trousers.

    Less With The Mouth, More With The Trousers.

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    Whether it’s a BMW, Audi or Mercedes, the Sport trim level is the one to have. It’s the one with the “look at me” wheels, it’s the one with the visual impact, it’s the one with all the parking lot poseur value. And I wish it would stop. An S-Line Audi A4 diesel gives you…

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  • Unlikely Race Cars #1: Mutant SEAT Marbella

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    We all love an underdog here at Hooniverse, so I thought I’d highlight a few of the less obvious racing machines that entered the excellent Crystal Palace Hillclimb this memorial weekend. To succeed in a hillclimb event you’d typically want your car to be endowed with a nimble chassis, plentiful power and a lightweight body,…

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  • Ethereal Express: Driving The Citroën XM

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    There are countless phenomenons out there which defy description. To know that something exists, having this fact backed up by the reports of others, even seeing it documented on TV still can’t hold a candle to experiencing it first hand. I found this to be true when I visited Iceland in April and was lucky…

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  • "Driving and listening" VS Driving and Listening

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    There’s no accounting for taste. This is true, as anybody who has looked through my CD changer will tell you (it currently contains Lamb, Pink Floyd, Underworld, James McMurtry, Moulettes and Brian Eno). But it’s surely better to express poor taste than to express no taste. At least it demonstrates that you have an interest.…

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  • Diecast, uh, Delights? A Mercedes-Benz SL500 (R230) in 1:18 Scale

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    Imagine a street full of steakhouses. Most of them are advertising a Mixed Grill including a 10oz sirloin, farmhouse sausage, lamb chop, vegetables and fries, for $19.95. One, though; “The Macerated Bullock” proudly offers all the above, plus ham topped with a pineapple slice, three different sausages, two grilled chicken wings and a dessert, all…

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  • The Carchive: '81 Pontiac Acadian

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    I received an exciting telegram from the expedition team last weekend- while charting the cave we have come to know as the Lesser Chamber, a fissure was found in the rock which opened into a hitherto unknown void, and they could scarcely believe what they found in there. Welcome back to The Carchive. We remain…

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  • The Carchive: The '73 Lincoln Continental MKIV

    The Carchive: The '73 Lincoln Continental MKIV

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    We finished last year’s run of visits to The Carchive at the turn of the ’70s with a look at a Simca 1100, the car without which the Hooniverse Podcast graphic would be nothing. Let’s stay in that decade and take a long, admiring glance at the ’73 Lincoln Continental MKIV. I’d also like this…

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  • Abandoned Fiesta: A Family Betrayal

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    The break-up with Paul had been an amicable one. He was a good man, but Jessica knew he wasn’t the right man. He’d been good with the baby, though, and as a new mum, what Jessica really needed was somebody to be there for her, and he never failed in that regard. It was a…

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  • Diecast Delights: A C5 Corvette in 1:18 Scale

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    Around the time of the turn of the millennium, a great change was about to take effect which would significantly improve the lives of grown men who really should know better than to still be playing with toy cars despite their advancing years. Sorry, I mean our advancing years. This was the time that manufacturing…

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  • Bargain Corner #2: ’01 Ford Mondeo

    Bargain Corner #2: ’01 Ford Mondeo

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    Depreciation is a savage phenomenon. The way some cars lose value after first leaving the showroom often takes the form of a really violent looking curve when charted. In a lot of cases it really doesn’t take very long at all before a car has lost almost all of the multiple thousands that were spent…

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