Benny Kirk
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Grand Theft Auto VI Needs to Be Flawless, Rockstar's Future Depends On It
20 Sep 2022, 05:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Well, folks, if you know, you know. For those that don't know, we're referring to the recent leak of over 90 videos worth of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay testing a hacker revealed to the masses. Safe to say, people's reaction to what...
2015 Ferrari 458 Speciale at Auction Nears $1 Million With a Week To Go, Will It Make It?
18 Sep 2022, 15:47 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / According to Jeremy Clarkson, the Ferrari 458 Italia in its original form was "one of the all-time great Ferraris." Meaning that if there were a short list of cars humanity wanted to save from extinction, the 458 would almost assuredly be...
Ryan Newman's Old NASCAR Cup Car Needs Some TLC, Will It Be Yours?
17 Sep 2022, 17:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / NASCAR Hall of Famer Rusty Wallace has driven some iconic stock cars in his long and illustrious career. Many of them are in museums or even in his own personal collection. But not this particular Penske Racing Dodge Charger. It's for sale on ...
Russia's Orel Spacecraft Aims to Challenge NASA's Orion to the Moon, They'll Need Luck
16 Sep 2022, 22:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With the imminent launch of NASA's Artemis I mission carrying a single Lockheed Martin Orion space capsule on a circumnavigation of the Moon, it may feel as though NASA and the ESA are alone in their race to the stars. But that'd be incor...
The Death of the Mopar HEMI V8 Will Be an All-Time Automotive Tragedy, Here’s Why
16 Sep 2022, 17:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A short time ago, we told the story of how the first generation classic Mopar HEMI engines of the 1950s laid the foundation for the icon the moniker would become later on. But if you've been paying attention to the auto industry lately, you�...
Coyote V8 Swapped 1978 Bronco Takes a Classic Icon and Makes It Substantially Angrier
16 Sep 2022, 16:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The second-generation Ford Bronco was an underappreciated watershed vehicle for the entire Ford Brand. Its legacy, along with the subsequent three further generations of classic Bronco, would be instrumental in drumming up enough public interest to...
1970 Pontiac GTO's 400-Cubic Inch V8 Is Fully Rebuilt, the Rest Looks Wicked Too
16 Sep 2022, 15:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If Domenic Toretto were a GM fan instead of a Mopar guy, he'd probably be driving something like this 1970 Pontiac GTO in the movies. But you don't need an iconic film character played by Vin Diesel behind the wheel to make a classic Amer...
NYC Yellow Cabs May See Fare Hike Soon, Uber and Lyft Laugh Manically
15 Sep 2022, 03:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / According to a recent Regular Car Reviews video, only ten NYC Taxi-spec Ford Crown Victorias are operating in the city as of mid-2022. By this time next year, that number will likely be zero. Coincidentally, this same time in the future m...
American Rail Worker Strike Likely Imminent, Amtrak Cancels Most Long Distance Routes
14 Sep 2022, 22:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As reported by the New York Times just after 5 p.m. EST on Wednesday, September 14th, unions representing America's railway workers, authorized a work stoppage related to an ongoing labor dispute by 12:01 a.m. this coming Friday morning. A...
This 1992 Dodge Dakota With a Magnum V8 is Overshadowed By Chevy S-10s, It Shouldn't Be
14 Sep 2022, 20:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Light-duty trucks from the late 80s and early 90s are hot cake items in 2022. But that doesn't mean there aren't deals to be had if you look hard enough. Granted, that inevitably means settling for something with more mileage on the odome...
Here's Why Your First Side-By-Side UTV Should Be All-Electric, It's Not Why You Think
14 Sep 2022, 18:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Until yesterday morning, I'd hardly ever seen a side-by-side vehicle before, let alone sat in or driven one. I simply didn't live in a part of the country conducive to owning a vehicle like that. But I was given the great privilege of bei...
Extra Spicy 1965 Mercury Comet Caliente Restomod Needs as Much Attention as a Hot Mustang
13 Sep 2022, 22:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The classic 60s Ford Mustang gets all the love. Even other models from Lincoln and Mercury that might use components borrowed from the Mustang don't receive nearly as much attention. This 1965 Mercury Comet Caliente may not share much with the...
Chinese Manned Lunar Program Will Challenge NASA's Artemis, Aims to Mine Moon Minerals
12 Sep 2022, 11:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In the acclaimed Apple TV series For All Mankind, the Soviets beat NASA to the Moon in 1969 after a series of engineering mishaps for the Americans that didn't happen in our timeline, giving the Communists the upper hand in the space race. Onl...
NASA Repairs Leaky Fuel Seals on Artemis I's SLS Rocket, Next Launch Try Sep 23rd
12 Sep 2022, 10:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Rocket launch scrubs are just a part of the territory. Even so, watching two back-to-back scrubs of the SLS rocket carrying the Artemis I Orion spacecraft to a trip around the Moon was like taking two football punts right in the feels. After a seco...
Garage Princess 1988 Toyota 4Runner Is the Stuff Dreams Are Made Of
12 Sep 2022, 09:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / What good is a late 80s Toyota product that doesn't have its odometer filled up to its eyeballs and a lifetime of memories piled up inside the interior? Doesn't it sort of defeat the purpose of building a vehicle as dependable and bulletp...
Meet Zombug, the Delightful 1972 Beetle Powered By a Radial Engine
12 Sep 2022, 08:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The largest sin the original VW Beetle ever committed was sporting a drivetrain seemingly made of wet paper bags. So to say, it could have been better in the power department. Well, we're not sure swapping the stock air-cooled Beetle engine fo...
Doug DeMuro Hails the Original Ferrari California a "Criminally Underrated" Enthusiast Car
11 Sep 2022, 20:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The words of Doug DeMuro are not the infallible divine words of some supreme automotive being. But that doesn't mean millions of people don't listen when he has something to say. So when he released his updated list of the most underappre...
Stunning 1966 Ford Galaxie Packs 390FE V8 Under the Hood, Pretty Mean for a Family Coupe
11 Sep 2022, 18:59 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When it comes to fast Fords of the 1960s, everybody remembers the Mustang. But people who don't have knowledge of every engine that went into every sporty Ford to memory likely don't know you could have just about any car in the lineup wi...
Chevy V8-Swapped Toyota Pickup Ditches Sensibility for Rock Crawling and Mud Bogging
11 Sep 2022, 18:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The largest sin most people will ever levy against a late 80s Toyota Pickup truck is to only wish the engine were louder and more vivacious. Well, it looks like one anonymous private Autotrader user out of Pearl River, New York, decided to do jus...
BMW M62-Swapped Volvo 740 Is ABBA on the Outside, Rammstein Under the Hood
10 Sep 2022, 19:25 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Volvo 740 sedan is a car so mundane, so unrelentingly sensibly Swedish, that it has about as much curb appeal as the masonry brick we can only assume inspired its design. That is unless you're a lover of quirky less-than-exotic cars like w...