The Hoonigan

I consider myself somewhat of a traditionalist when it comes to modifying Land Rovers. I like the ones which surprise you, whilst remaining almost completely OEM on the outside, such as the Twisted Performance & JE Engineering examples, which use either engine management changes to push the TD5 engine to over 260hp, or completely swap …

It’s been a while Ladies and Gentlemen. I know I’ve been away for a while, I’m sorry, It’s been a pretty hectic month. But, I have got a few good shots, even though my extent of skill with a camera is pressing the screen on my iPhone. I can’t even edit them once I’ve taken …

enjoy, first race of the 2012 season is sunday 18th march folks!   Words: Elliot Video: BSkyB

2012 MOTOGP Season Preview Let me start by saying I like, no l mean LOVE technical diversity, the idea of different engine formats V4/Vtwins in line fours, triples racing together, each with their own advantages and disadvantages appeals…A V offering the grunt to get out of corners whilst the in line has higher revs and …

This Saturday (19th November) TheHoonigan.com, staff, members & friends will be attending the Christmas markets in Manchester, in particular the German market in Albert square so come down say hello, we’ll be down there 12noon till late so have some beer and bratwurst! if your interested in meeting the team and some of the other …

I first came across this Scirocco at the Retro-Show down at Santa Pod earlier in the year.   I witnessed the car doing a couple of 10 and 11 second quarter mile runs in the ESC series and that totally blew my mind, I mean this was a car from the 1970′s! I went to …

I’ve been busy recently with my university work so I thought i’d share with you some of what I’ve been working on.The photos of the Jeep are a combination of about 5 images run through photoshop as HDR images. The BMW photo at the bottom was my first realy attempt at light painting, this is …

So the other night I thought I’d make a start on my editorial shots (still to come when I’ve finished the set). I intended to meet my mate Kieran to take some shots of him and his motor, he suggested to make it an open invitation just to see who turned up, 151 comments on …

So the other day snow began to fall at TheHoonigan HQ and we decided to go out for a play in the S3, its AWD so what the hell? Nothing like enjoying a little boost whilst all the other 2WD suckers burn out clutches and diffs trying to get up the epic hills in which …

Came across this video from drifted.com, and it’s just so fantastically well shot and editied I had to share it. Enjoy. Words – Samuel Rowlands

    To “Lanny About” is something that only Land Rover owners, or people very close to Land Rover owners will understand. It’s the cruising of the Land Rover world, and unfortunately expensive. Hell, I wouldn’t have it any other way. To introduce myself, Sam, 18, nearly 19, work at Tesco, mechanical skills are less …

Yesterday i managed to get my hands on a D700, this was the first time i was going to have used a full frame DSLR so i headed down to Trafford Park, Manchester to another enthusiast social meet. Shortly after arriving this lovely Z4 turned up and grabbed everyone’s attention, i decided this was a …

Firstly I’d like to start off by apologizing as it has been a while since I last posted anything. Secondly as the title says… Bikes! Now here at TheHoonigan.com we haven’t regularly mentioned bikes in posts but that’s not to say that we love them any less! This year I’ll be traveling to the Isle …

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When you first see this… no i’m lying you won’t see it at first i PROMISE that you will hear it before you see it and that is no exaggeration. Once you begin to get used to the approaching monstrous 6 cylinder harmony prepare for the biggest double take of your life, this particular Capri …

Here’s my first post for thehoonigan.com its a quick 44 second video to hopefully show you what we’re all about. You’ll mostly get your quality content from Elliot. But most video and editing is done by me behind the scenes. Occasionally some of my stills might make it too, if i’m lucky. A big thank …

So I’ve seen and heard quite a few videos of the Judd BMW’s, as a fan of the 1 series this noise really is the icing on the cake, enjoy! skip to 1:30 on this one Words – Elliot Boyd

Of course things have been a little busy and hectic recently so apologies for the frequency of posts, from all of us here at TheHoonigan.com we wish you a merry christmas and look forward to the new year! heres a few shots of my friend Ben’s S3 which i finally got round to editing ma …

Yesterday i was booked as a driver to take an interview team down to London, decided on taking the one series, before leaving i thought the car deserved a clean and couple of quick photos, if your a fan of bimmers why not click the photo for the full size and save it as your …

Tonight i went to meet a friend i hadn’t seen in a long time! In fact she didn’t even own a license the last time i saw her! So tonight was the first time i got to meet her Retro Jet Black edition Mini = ], only putting the one shot up for now because …

Another extremely well shot and edited video from Stephen Brooks, for me personally the intro was extremely emotional the use of Adagio in D Minor – John Murphy and the Ayrton Senna quote very powerful stuff! Stephen’s use of B-roll/cut-aways always goes nicely with his consistently well exercised action shots, get this watched in HD …

Winter is always grim, no matter how you try to organise anything you cannot control the weather. Unfortunately it’s freezing but recently I’ve found my hope for summer, those legends who defy the crap weather and sub-zero temperatures 2 perhaps 3 nights a week to go for a social meet, discuss what the latest thing …

This post is a tribute to those fallen in motorsport, both those whom were lucky enough to get back up and those not so fortunate. Warning, some readers may find parts of this post distressing/upsetting. This year i watched two truly awe-inspiring documentary films. TT:3D – Closer to the edge & Senna. Both of these …

So this ones doing the rounds on youtube at the moment and Tom linked me this. I’ve seen some pretty mental modded cars from Asia, I’m pretty sure you’ve all seen the famous VIP Lexus, now i think this one even destroys that for stance/lows/camber what do we think? Words – Elliot Boyd

2012 MOTOGP Round 1 Qatar   Racing motorcycles in the desert, at night, under floodlights was on the menu for the 2012 MotoGP season opener in Qatar.  I have been waiting for this event with much anticipation. It seemed a long winter as slowly more information about the new 250cc Moto3 bikes and 1000cc bikes …

these spectator certainly picked their location very well at this Polish rally stage, keep an eye out for the hero in the fiesta who completely soaks the rescuing spectators Words – Elliot Boyd

One of those moments where it’d be nice to have more space. So today as I was derv-ing through Saddleworth I came to a very sudden realisation, caused by about 10 seconds of driving. Here’s the short version: I was driving along a normal, if a little n arrow, 2-lane road. Cars parked near enough …

This video shows a Lamborghini Gallardo completing a stage of the Targa High County Rally in Australia whilst on fire. Despite the fire the driver managed to post a time only 4 seconds slower than the rally leader. Targa High Country is an exciting international event, a tarmac rally with competitive stages on closed roads …

So tonight i went for a catch-up with my good friend Emily, not seen her in a while she’s got a top job and a swanky new motor, I had a few beers and came up with a daft idea… Words & Video – Elliot Boyd

This has to be one of the best things i’ve watched for a while, beautifully shot on a DSLR aswel! Thanks to my mate Gaz from bringing this to my attention! Joy Ride from Sandro on Vimeo.

Came across this on pistonheads earlier, lovely!!!

So this year I will be attending the Isle of man TT’s, I honestly cannot wait it will be the highlight of my year for certain, I’ll be sure to get plenty of footage and photos and have a full write-up when I return from it. Last year British Rally Champion Mark Higgins wanted to …

So it had been a while since I last saw Rob, last thing I heard about him was that the Dynamique Clio that he’d built into a track demon equipped with the famous RenaultSport F4R engine was being broken up and sold in bits. This saddened me as this car really did have character but …

So anyone who knows us here at TheHoonigan.com knows that we spend a little bit of our free time on the xbox360… in particular Forza. Now I recently discovered that there is an in-game photography mode… inspirational perhaps? Here’s a shot of the M5 which i built today. So if any of you readers are …

For a long time i’ve been a fan of diesel 306′s, power and economy and plenty of smoke for people behind you to choke on. Easily tuned as well. Cheers to Jasper for sending this my way Words – Elliot Boyd

This should make you smile Serious Gooning from maraiomaraio on Vimeo.

So by now you could be sick of the sight of our resident 1 series… if not you’re in luck, i took these shots tonight under some cracking lighting, enjoy these desktops perhaps?

So the first real big show of 2012, 24-25th March down at Santa Pod Raceway and I had to be there! As a follow up feature from last year i decided to tag along with Blackburn’s very own Rockets Car Repairs racing team and their Mk1 Volkswagen Scirocco! Upon removing the motor from the garage …

For a while now I’ve seen these stickers on cars around greater Manchester and just assumed that they were from some big scene American firm who had just produced these random increasingly popular stickers. However! This was not the case when i recently investigated further to find out that it was actually a blog ran …

The video of Paul Jordan’s Rocco doing the drag strip in an incredible 9.7 seconds     filmed and edited by Tom Evans & Elliot Boyd

Came across this earlier, an enjoyable watch. Jorian Ponomareff getting sideways on a bike. I’ve heard of supermoto’s getting their tail out but never really thought about motorbikes getting their drift on before now. My personal favorite moment at 1.48. More of Jorian’s videos on his YouTube Words – Elliot Boyd

Not so long ago my friend George sent me a photograph of a really old BMW some 30 feet away from where the photo was taken, i had to go see this car for myself but more on the BMW later. Getting onto the subject of cars which had been taken off the road George …

Well this is usually Sam’s territory but i met a couple of Lanny enthusiasts today (apologies if you miss-read the title btw ;D) and i had my cameras handy . This blue beast above and below some readers may recognize from previous photos/posts Dom’s lanny was having some work done to resolve a fueling problem …