Benny Kirk
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Doug DeMuro Mesmerized by $3.5 Million Lamborghini Essenza SCV12, Shame He Can't Drive it
23 Jan 2022, 19:48 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Doug DeMuro isn't above dishing out criticism about Lamborghini any more than any other brand. He's made no bones about seemingly endless special edition hypercars based on the Aventador feeling like kicking the new flagship Lambo questio...
1994 Mitsubishi Jeep Could Be on the Next Boat to New York, More Quirky Than the Real Jeep
23 Jan 2022, 18:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For a moniker so associated with America, freedom, and fuel economy so woeful it may as well sip on crude oil all day, the Jeep name's found itself used in several non-Chrysler and non-AMC companies. Today, let's focus on one made in Japa...
GM Spends Big Money on Western New York EV Parts Facility, Here's Why it's Huge News
23 Jan 2022, 17:37 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The EV revolution is preparing to take the world by storm far sooner than any of us may have anticipated. But if we're actually going to live in the fabled post-internal-combustion utopia, we're going to need a heck of a big factory suppl...
Fisher P-75 Eagle: Designed By General Motors, Destined for Epic Failure
23 Jan 2022, 01:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You wouldn't believe the kind of shady things that "too big to fail" sized American automotive companies have gotten away with. From stealing patents from independent inventors to building Pintos with explode-happy fuel tanks, we...
This Japanese Rocket-Powered Manned Missile Struck Horror into Allied Sailors in WWII
22 Jan 2022, 20:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's important to understand the pilots of the Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka piloted anti-ship missiles were not just trained soldiers who craved death more than we desire life. They were real human beings with wives, families, children, emotions, and a...
P-26 Peashooter: Before The Super Hornet, This Was the Last Fighter Built by Boeing
22 Jan 2022, 17:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you're familiar at all with Boeing, it's likely because of their world-famous big airliners, the 707, 747, and so on. But one area the current world's largest aerospace company neglected for over seven decades was the single-engin...
Fat Boy Slim: Fairchild C-123K Provider, The Forgotten Workhorse of the Cold War
22 Jan 2022, 04:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You learn things you never would have guessed possible when you travel the country, looking for places showcasing airplanes for a living. The first and foremost among these lessons is that aviation history isn't as cut and dry as we might ...
Man Comes Close to Firing Up 20 Year Abandoned Cessna, Until Shady Disaster Strikes
21 Jan 2022, 21:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you haven't been keeping up with the saga of the Rebuild Rescue YouTube channel and their quest to revive a long-abandoned Cessna twin-engine private airplane, you owe it to yourself to go and check it out. The unfolding tale of how one...
Tesla Swapped Fifth-Gen Mustang Makes the Mach-E Feel Awkward
21 Jan 2022, 04:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / People are still belly-aching about Ford's latest performance luxury crossover EV being labeled with the iconic Mustang badge. If you're one of these people, answer us this. Would you feel more satisfied if the EV Mustang looked somet...
Bugatti Celebrates 500 Chirons Sold, Looks Back on Five Years of Glory
20 Jan 2022, 22:59 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Suppose you thought the Bugatti Veyron was as poetic and as spectacular an achievement as has ever graced the automotive sector. In that case, the successor Chiron is delivering just as impactful of a final act. With 500 bespoke models sold transla...
SpaceX Inks $102 Million Deal to Demonstrate Tech to the U.S. Air Force
20 Jan 2022, 21:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Elon Musk just wouldn't be enough of a Bond-adjacent trillionaire tortured genius without the U.S. Military snooping around in all projects. Whether it's rumors of him pitching his Tesla Cyber Truck to the Army or confirmed reports of a w...
Peugeot's 9X8 Hypercar Struts Its Stuff With Pro Photographer, Looks Breathtaking
20 Jan 2022, 20:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Peugeot is adamant about categorizing their new 9X8 hybrid hypercar as far more than just a no-rules race car. But an absolute masterclass in design form following engineering function. So when the Peugeot team decides the 9X8 needs a professional ...
1-of-1 1969 Ford Fairlane Packs Beastly Mystery Under the Hood, the Ultimate of Its Kind
20 Jan 2022, 19:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Usually, when someone boasts about their ownership of a "one of a kind automobile," it's a bit like the old folk tales about magical witches giving birth to rabbits in the middle of the forest with no one else around. A great sto...
Look Out Corvette C8 Z06: Honda Starts Production of NSX Type S and It's a Game Changer
20 Jan 2022, 17:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Honda Performance Manufacturing Center in Marysville, Ohio, must have felt like the opening kickoff of the Superbowl on January 20th, 2022. It was the day Honda announced that the limited-edition Acura NSX Type S had officially begun production...
Toyota Gazoo Racing North America Expands into NHRA, Here's Why It's Groundbreaking
19 Jan 2022, 21:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You wouldn't believe the fuss people kicked up back when Toyota joined the almost exclusively American-operated NASCAR Cup series back in 2004. Some people, even today, are still not over it. With that in mind, we can only wonder if the respon...
Porsche Tiger Tank: Ferdinand Porsche's Worst Kept Secret
19 Jan 2022, 21:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Ferdinand Porsche was an eccentric man. A man of many talents, all under the general purview of engineering. But to say that all of his inventions and his machines were built for the betterment of mankind is not entirely accurate. A few of his idea...
1964 Plymouth Valiant Wagon Disguised as Idlewild Airport Taxi, Packs Mystery Under Hood
19 Jan 2022, 16:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Airport transportation vehicles have gotten more than a little shabby in the last 50 years. We won't have to explain this to you if you've even taken one trip by bus to a New York City airport. But it didn't use to be this way. The s...
2022 Cannondale Synapse Endurance Bike: Like a Luxury GT Sports Car on Two Thin Tires
19 Jan 2022, 07:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It takes a bicycle of exceptionally high quality to spark the interest of some people more privy to cheeseburger munching and late-night carb binges than exercise. But if the reward for getting in shape is investing in an endurance bike as spec...
Classic 1997 Chevy Tahoe Turbodiesel is a Very Rare Breed Indeed, Even With 180k Miles
18 Jan 2022, 18:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You may remember back to August of this year when GM announced they'd suspended production of their new three-liter Duramax turbodiesel engine at the hand of a relentless chip shortage crisis that threatened to bring the entire industry to its...
James Webb Space Telescope Passes 90% to L2 Orbit, Calibrates Mirrors
18 Jan 2022, 18:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As of just after 12 PM Eastern Standard Time on January 18th, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has completed a tantalizing 92.5207% of its long journey to its L2 orbital insertion. An astonishing one million miles (1,609,344 km) away from home....