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18 Nov 2023, 16:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We bet some of you out there totally forgot Jeep still built a true-to-form, two-door Jeep Wrangler. Over 90 percent of all new Wranglers sold these days are four-door models, so it's no great shame on anyone's part if their jaw drops whe...
17 Nov 2023, 22:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The internet at large has been ablaze recently with stories about a radio-controlled scale model of a World War II German King Tiger tank whose job was to drill holes in over-pressurized Space Shuttle tires during ground tests. Now, whether a Secon...
16 Nov 2023, 20:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Remember when the Kia Sorento used to be a mediocre SUV? One that, admittedly, was cheap enough to make people consider it over a Honda CRV or Toyota Rav4 but could also never hold a candle to its rivals. If you didn't already know, spoiler al...
16 Nov 2023, 18:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Fifteen years ago, Jeep was a laughable 4x4 brand clowned for shoddy build quality, poor build materials, and being sold by people who preferred accountants in high-ranking brand positions instead of designers and engineers. A decade and a half can...
15 Nov 2023, 20:22 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As of November 2022, two American aerospace contractors have new spacecraft raring to go up into low-Earth orbit at the first sign of an opportunity in Boeing's Starliner capsule and Sierra Space's Dream Chaser space plane. But until thei...
15 Nov 2023, 14:06 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If it weren't for a handful of smaller international aviation firms, chances are good the world's civil jetliner sector would be a complete two-horse race between the monolithic titans of Airbus and Boeing. There are a couple of different...
13 Nov 2023, 20:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Let us paint the scene for you. The year is 1944, and you're fresh back at home in the U.S. after a tour in the Pacific theater of World War II as an F4F Wildcat pilot during the Battles of the Coral Sea and Guadalcanal. Lucky enough not to co...
13 Nov 2023, 16:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A short while ago, we looked at a highly modified four-door Ford Bronco conversion by Centurion that blurred the line between a Bronco and an F-150 in more ways than one. Well, it turns out that not only did Centurion customize a Bronco to look lik...
12 Nov 2023, 19:31 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Is it an E70 Corolla in a hatchback blob suit? The Yaris' long-lost ancestor, or something in the middle? Whatever it is, the Toyota Starlet was nothing but a blip on the radar in North America. But over in Europe, Asia, and Australia, where t...
10 Nov 2023, 23:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The name Tudor has its origins in a couple of different places. It was the name of a prominent English royal dynasty for a time; it's the name of one of Europe's most fascinating historical styles of architecture and is a realtively commo...
10 Nov 2023, 18:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's easy to get the impression that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was built to outright replace what's perhaps history's most important space telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope. But because JWST operates primarily on the...
10 Nov 2023, 15:32 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If there's one thing we love around here, it's small, independent tuning shops turning out quality restomods with the same quality and craftsmanship as more notable, sponsor-backed shops twice their size. That's why it's with al...
9 Nov 2023, 19:48 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Bentleys and yachts go together like beluga caviar and a bottle of Chateau Lafite. But a bespoke yacht interior designed and signed off on by Bentley themselves? Now, that's bound to have a wider appeal than just trust fund socialites. There...
8 Nov 2023, 04:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Have you ever spotted a funky-looking car parked somewhere and thought to yourself, it has to be a kit car? Well, what if we told you that sometimes, what looks like a kit vehicle is actually the long-forgotten ambitions of a start-up company that ...
8 Nov 2023, 02:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / More than a few questions surrounded Peugeot as it entered the multi-national automotive conglomerate and new corporate masters at Stellantis. In a sea of automotive brands from Dodge to Jeep and Lancia to Vauxhall and Alfa Romeo, was there breathi...
8 Nov 2023, 01:56 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As America's oldest and arguably most revered motorcycle brand, the 2024 lineup has colossal shoes to fill. Thankfully, the future looks pretty bright at your local Indian dealer. With a lineup of V-twins targeting every faction in modern Amer...
7 Nov 2023, 20:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Chandra X-Ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope occupy polar opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum. When blindspots in one telescope's field of vision lead to a lack of definition, it's often a smart idea to use a dif...
7 Nov 2023, 03:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's no big deal to find a derelict husk of some long-dead hunk 60s or 70s of steel lying in a junkyard somewhere. We've almost been conditioned as petrolheads to praise the virtues of pulling vintage clap-traps from the grasp of a crushe...
6 Nov 2023, 19:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In the seven-decade story of America's most iconic sports car, the late 1970s are something of a black hole period. A time when primitive emissions restriction equipment in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis turned what was once a car as quick as...
6 Nov 2023, 18:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / People tend to forget how much R&D went into designing and building the Apollo-era Lunar Roving Vehicle. Several different proposals came across NASA's desk before the iconic Moon buggy we all know and love was chosen. But even by Apollo s...