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Monday Mini Madness: British Purity
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So you’re sitting at home in your large wing-backed chair beside the fire, meticulously packing and lighting your pipe while your tea cools. You’ve had a long day, and your feet are hurting, despite the tweed slippers your dear wife has so kindly provided for you. Try as you might, you just can’t seem to…
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Fifty Ugliest Cars of the Past Fifty Years, according to Business Week
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Here at Hooniverse, we really have no respect for publications that stray from their area of expertise. Take this pictorial from Business Week highlighting Fifty of the ugliest cars of the past fifty years, in we object to some of the entries on this list. (Thanks to Rob in Ocala for the tip!) Make the…
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Look Ma, No Hands! Ford Gets KINECT'ed
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When I was down in Las Vegas earlier this year, stuffing dollar bills into thongs and bathing in Cristal touring the booths at CES, Ford debuted their next generation SYNC entertainment system for their line of vehicles. Several months later, the system is getting a major overhaul … one that could have drastically change not…
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This Makes Ski Lifts Incredibly Boring
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Think you’re a badass? Or at least maybe you’ve accomplished some cool stuff at your job? Nope, you aren’t and you haven’t. Know why? Because you haven’t flown six Astra HD8 8×6 heavy duty trucks over the Swiss Alps via cable tramway to service a hugely ambitious tunneling and power plant project. That is unless…
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Morning Qualifying – Master of the Silver Arrows edition
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Today would have been Alfred Neubauer’s 120th birthday. The impact of ‘the Big Man’ on motor sport history and modern motor sport can not be underestimated.
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Is This Fiat 500 Abarth Awesome Or Awful?
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So I’m minding my own business, cruising down Woodward Avenue in the Detroit ‘burb of Royal Oak when I spot this nutty little machine. The station owner claims it as his own 1969 Fiat 500 Abarth which he’s done up with vinyls and aftermarket bits for street-side advertising purposes. I don’t really know how to…
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Welcome to Murray Country: Population, Awesome
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It’s difficult to believe from 40-odd years on that the most legendary versions of the muscle cars we now worship often languished on salesfloors when new. Turns out a wildly expensive, obscenely powerful American car getting low-single-digits fuel economy and requiring arm-leg-and-kidney-priced car insurance was a tougher sell to the aspirational young market than the…
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Last Call – This Is How We Do It Edition
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This is really what every awd car with a turbo should look like 99% of the year. And as Tenbeers pointed out, “Dirt is the correct color for any Evo or WRX” Agreed.
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YOU CAN'T FIRE ME, I QUIT!
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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE READERS OF THIS SITE, FROM THE DESK OF ALEX “HAN SOLEX’ KIERSTEIN Dear Readers, Before they lock me out of the Hooniverse offices for good, I have to share with the world the hideous perversion of ethical journalism that has sickened me for the last time. I am hereby resigning…
