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This E-110 Toyota Corolla Race Car is a Mitsubishi Evo X Underneath
16 Oct 2022, 19:42 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In the mid-1990s, Toyota and Mitsubishi made some of JDM's best internal combustion engines. The E-110 Corolla never carried a 2J, but this highly modified E-110 built by Dytko Sport of Poland is happy to carry over a different engine from its...
This 1967 Chevy Chevelle Sleeper is Rocking a Big Block Surprise Under the Hood
16 Oct 2022, 03:28 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Despite the muscle car the Chevy Chevelle would have become later in its life, the Chevelle of the mid-60s was what passed for a family-friendly car back in those days. Of these models, the base 300 with the straight six engines were the closest th...
This Custom Toyota Pickup Ditched Its Modest Past for a Life of Adventure on the Trail
16 Oct 2022, 02:42 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Flemmings Ultimate Garage in Maryland is one of the East Coast's premier hubs for buying classic American iron of all shapes and sizes. In a proverbial sea of Shelbys, Camaros, Chargers, and Mustangs, this highly modified Toyota SR5 pickup tha...
Sweden and Finland Unite in War Thunder's Latest Update, Ready to Fight Russian Bias
16 Oct 2022, 00:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Adding Swedish vehicles to War Thunder a few years ago was one of the most invigorating moves in the game's history. Get ready for things to get even more Scandinavian in the upcoming "Fire and Ice" DLC update coming very soon. A ...
At Long Last, the M1A2 SEP "Tusk" Is Coming to War Thunder
15 Oct 2022, 23:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Players of War Thunder's American tech trees have been spoiled rotten with new content this year. The consensus is that the newly added F-14A Tomcat is one of the most fun planes to fly in the game. Much to the chagrin of all who haven't ...
This Hawker Sea Fury Fighter Plane Traded Autocannons For Racing Decals
15 Oct 2022, 03:22 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Aside from possibly the Grumman F8F Bearcat, the Hawker Sea Fury was the ultimate carrier-based piston engine fighter of the dying days of World War Two and the very early Cold War. With a massive radial engine and a full suite of high-caliber auto...
Forget the Escalade-V, This 1934 Cadillac V-16 Is Even More Outrageous
15 Oct 2022, 01:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With 682 horsepower worth of V8 amazingness to play with, the Cadillac Escalade-V is the most insane Caddy of the 21st century. End of the story, bar none. Nothing Cadillac has built in the last 22 years even comes close. But almost 90 years ago,...
Russian Orbital Service Station: Russia's Defiant Successor to the ISS Launching in 2026
14 Oct 2022, 22:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As of 2022, Russia is a pariah state. We need not delve into why, as the reasons should be self-evident. That said, most pariah states can't maintain a functioning space program. That won't stop the Russians from trying. Roscosmos ann...
Beriev S-13: The Forgotten Top-Secret Soviet Copycat of an American U-2 Spy Plane
14 Oct 2022, 18:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Lockheed U-2, or the Dragon Lady as its crews and pilots dubbed it, is an all-time great military airplane. As an ambassador for American air power during the Cold War, few airplanes do a better job. But what if we told you the Soviets tried th...
ZIS-6: The Original Soviet Truck Platform For the BM-13 Katyusha "Stalin's Organ"
14 Oct 2022, 04:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Just as much as photographs and museum exhibits, the sounds of war are vital to telling their stories. World War II brought humanity many new sounds. The roar of a nuclear explosion, the howl of a Rolls Royce Merlin, and the scream of a Stuka dive ...
This 1929 Buhl Air Sedan Was an Executive Airplane for Packard, Now it's for Sale
14 Oct 2022, 01:42 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A business jet is a prerequisite for any successful company in 2022. But in the days when flying was still somewhat of a novel thing, it took trendsetters taking the leap of faith to make this the case. The Packard Motor Car Company did so...
This Mitsubishi Fuso Box Truck Transformed Into a Badass 4x4 Overland Camper
13 Oct 2022, 21:47 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You'd expect something for sale on YouTube star Doug DeMuro's self-made car auction website to be some form of an exotic sports car. Though carsandbids.com has plenty of those for sale, they cover all the bases regarding four wheels and a...
Ultra Rare 1979 Cadillac Seville Grandeur Opera is a Broadway Star on Four Wheels
13 Oct 2022, 02:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Saratoga Automobile Museum is one of New York State's best-kept automotive secrets. A collection of some of the Empire State's finest classic cars from an eclectic variety of origins. But of all the American cars for sale at auction i...
This Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk Was Pulled From the Jungles of Papua New Guinea, Now Restored
13 Oct 2022, 00:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Call it the Warhawk, the Kittyhawk, or the Tomahawk. The Curtiss P-40 was a pivotal American piston engine fighter that held down the fort until P-47 Thunderbolt and P-51 Mustang arrived and slowly but surely assured air superiority over Europe. Bu...
Orders Open for 2023 GAD Motors Custom Mercedes-Benz V-Class V8, Only Ten Built
12 Oct 2022, 22:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Whether you call it the Viano, the Vito, the V-Class, or the Metris, Mercedes-Benz's flagship passenger van is a global force. One with its fair share of problems, as Doug DeMuro was all too happy to point out a few years ago. But that didn�...
NASA DART Asteroid Impactor Mission Massively Successful, Sped Up Minor Planet's Orbit
12 Oct 2022, 20:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Until the 21st century, humanity's capability to defend itself against asteroids, comets, and other nefarious space junk was to make some cheesy Hollywood disaster movies to pre-instill a healthy sense of panic. There have been hiccups alo...
Here's Why You Should Never Use PayPal to Buy a Used Car, It's All in the Fine Print
12 Oct 2022, 05:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The financial sector intersects with the automotive sector more than we'd like to imagine. But at least two entities respective to these industries should always remain separate. These are used cars and PayPal. Not the least bit because of an ...
Veteran Mechanic Preps His 1963 Impala SS for Trip Across America, Starts With the Wheels
12 Oct 2022, 01:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If there's one thing we love to do, it's showcase smaller YouTube channels doing all kinds of cool DIY car projects for us all to enjoy. There's a lot of fish in the proverbial sea of content. Still, we've found one veteran mech...
Crusty 1980 Saab 900 Failed California Smog Test 20 Years Ago, Do You Dare Reviving It?
12 Oct 2022, 00:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's been over a decade since Saab tragically bit the dust, but that doesn't mean rusty spectators of its past don't roam this mortal plain, cursing the name General Motors over and over again at a frequency as yet undiscovered...
This 1946 Delahaye 135 is a Forgotten Post-War Luxury Gem, a Real Piece of French History
11 Oct 2022, 18:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's not often we find an automobile these days that makes us here at autoevolution go, "what in the world is this?" Well, here's one of those moments, folks. Forgive some of the younger folks among us for not being up to speed ...