Benny Kirk
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Ford-Lincoln’s New Digital Experience Gets the Most Out of Apple Car Play and Android Auto
23 Jan 2024, 01:18 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With the coming 2024 Lincoln Nautilus serving as its first host platform, Ford and Lincoln's integrated infotainment system is about to receive a whole new layer of refinement. Through the all-new Ford and Lincoln Digital experience, a whole h...
Sierra Space's New Inflatable Space Habitat Pushed to Destruction in Burst Test
22 Jan 2024, 13:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With their miniature Space Shuttle replacement Dream Chaser due to launch this April, Sierra Space is one of the busiest private spaceflight firms in North America right now. But with Tenacity nearing completion, the space-savvy legal offshoot of S...
Dusold Designs' Twin Turbo Windsor '65 Mustang Humbles Purpose-Built Race Cars
21 Jan 2024, 20:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We bet most of you are bored to tears with restomodded first-generation Ford Mustangs. It's almost like there are more Gen-I Mustangs tuned to their eyeballs with Coyote or Godzilla motors than there are with the original hardware under the ho...
Don’t Call It a Barn Find: This ’69 Oldsmobile Wagon Spent Its Days in the Arizona Desert
21 Jan 2024, 16:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / By most measures, 1969 was perhaps the greatest single year in American history. Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon, a no-name expansion franchise won the World Series and the Super Bowl, and the year saw the arguable apex of the first muscle car re...
Teslas Are Losing the Fight With Chicago's Brutal Winters, Slow Charge Times Galore
19 Jan 2024, 18:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In a report first broken, ironically enough, by the New York Times, residents of Chicago unfortunate enough to drive electric vehicles through the city's harsh winters are getting a crash course in the downsides of EV ownership when the weathe...
NYC Drivers Declare War on MTA, Sue to Stop European-Style Congestion Charging
18 Jan 2024, 20:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The United States is a rebel nation, and what works in Asia or Europe often gets turned on its head as soon as it hits US soil. That's why when New York City announced plans to introduce European-style automotive congestion charges to Manhatta...
Forget a Super Duty, We Want This '88 Citroën Tissier to Haul Our Restomod Collection
18 Jan 2024, 04:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In North America, if you want to haul a car collection around, you buy a pickup truck and a trailer, and you're happy as a clam. Roads and highways in this region of the world are permissive to these oversized behemoths and accommodate them co...
Meet SRT33: Half 1933 Dodge Sedan, Half 6.1 HEMI Restomod, 100 Percent Badass
16 Jan 2024, 20:42 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We understand if you don't care that much for cars of an especially antique vintage. We're talking so old that they're bordering on the cusp of a natural human lifespan. Or cars that are about to fade from living memory of when they ...
Jeremy Hansen Will Be the First Non-American to Orbit the Moon, Hear His Side of the Story
16 Jan 2024, 04:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We bet you never thought Americans would finally return to the Moon, let alone a national of some other country. But if you haven't been paying attention recently, and no shame if you haven't, the future of human-crewed spaceflight will l...
Mourning the Death of the Chrysler 300? Buy This Mint '79 Cordoba 300 For Cheap
14 Jan 2024, 23:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We love the Chrysler 300 around here. It'll never be as refined, comfortable, or quite as pleasant to drive as a 3-Series BMW or a Lexus. But we don't see many 300 owners complaining about this; they were just happy to drive a big, comfor...
Legit Barn Find '78 Oldsmobile Toronado Cleans Up Nicer Than Most People
14 Jan 2024, 19:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The automotive term "barn find" has evolved over the years to mean far more than the face value of the term itself. At one point, a barn find was just that, a classic car found hidden under a roof, often in a rural setting, and unearthed ...
60-Year-Old GMC City Bus Has New Life as a DIY RV Camper, Is Cheaper Than a New One
13 Jan 2024, 21:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Do you hate paying rent? Do you wish you could travel the country in an RV that serves as your mobile office, your sleeping quarters, and the place you squat down on the porcelain throne? Well, there are basically two different ways of doing this. ...
Weaver Customs' LS3-Swapped International Scout Gaps M3s While Looking Retro as Heck
13 Jan 2024, 18:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / International Harvester is a name that can draw a blank with younger people. By the time the brand went belly-up in 1985, most of the youngsters on modern automotive Reddit threads hadn't even been born yet. But the International Scout pickup ...
Sleeper 2JZ-Swapped Lexus SC430 Is a Timeless Engine in a "Meh" Drop-Top Coupe
13 Jan 2024, 07:37 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you remember the Lexus SC430, it's probably for one of two reasons. Either your dear-old Grandma had one and maybe even handed it down to you when she got too old to drive. Or, on the other hand, you remember it for being the only car Jerem...
Big Block V8-Swapped JCB GT Backhoe Has the Nut Job Energy We Need in Our Lives
12 Jan 2024, 19:13 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Back in 2005, the heavy equipment manufacturer JCB set out to build the world's fastest diesel-powered land speed record vehicle and dubbed it the JCB Dieselmax. With a tuned tractor engine jetting 750hp, 350 mph was achievable with an ex-RAF ...
USS United States: The Supercarrier That Started Beef Between the Air Force and Navy
11 Jan 2024, 17:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The United States Air Force is the largest, most powerful aerial fighting force in the history of warfare. What's the second largest? That'd be the U.S. Navy. But like two brothers fighting for their father's attention after he legit...
SRT-10-Swapped '70 Dodge Charger Makes the Most of 10 Cylinders and Steel Wheels
10 Jan 2024, 05:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We're so used to restomods these days that are so pristine, picture-perfect, and comprehensively fully restored that driving them is the equivalent of crashing a 250 GTO through the front glass of a Ferrari museum. It's not often somethin...
Honda Re-Invents Itself With 0 Series Concepts at CES, Debuts New H-Mark Emblem
9 Jan 2024, 20:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Questions abound about Honda's ability to keep up with rivals in the all-electric future roadway of the late 2020s, and automakers will live and die by adapting to this trend pretty soon. But with the new Honda 0 Series family of concept EVs, ...
NYC’s New Toll Hikes and Congestion Charges Are One More Tax on the City’s Working Class
9 Jan 2024, 01:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The George Washington Bridge isn't often a place awash in joy. If anything, you're liable to feel robbed and a little cheated entering New York City from Fort Lee, New Jersey, after the bridge extracts $17.00 of your hard-earned dollars w...
Airbus A350: The Modern Jetliner That Sacrificed Itself To Save Every Soul Aboard
6 Jan 2024, 05:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We're often told that aviation is safer nowadays than any other form of motorized transportation. In no uncertain terms, you're more likely to harm yourself buckled into a passenger car than you are strapped into a passenger airliner. It ...