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13 Oct 2023, 00:13 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Every once in a while, the U.S. Air Force lets out their inner petrolhead. During the tail end of World War II and the Cold War especially, taking an existing airframe and fitting more powerful engines was more viable than designing a new aircraft ...
10 Oct 2023, 19:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's not often that the automotive and space travel industries intersect in a way that people from both sides of the aisle can appreciate. The old NASA Astrovans immediately pop into mind, but is there anything else out there? Well, as it turn...
10 Oct 2023, 17:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It will take a long time for us to square in our mind that the XW60-series, fifth-generation Toyota Prius, is a "cool car" by any stretch of the definition. Even almost a full year after the new Prius started its production run, it still ...
10 Oct 2023, 15:56 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For years, one company stood above and beyond the others in the drive to fully electrify the world's fleet of long-haul trucks. Of course, this company is Tesla with their quite unoriginally-named Tesla Semi. It's to the point where many ...
9 Oct 2023, 17:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Does anyone else feel like these collaborations between various automakers and companies in other industries get stranger and stranger as each year passes? It might be another one of those petty musings you hear from auto journalists as they'r...
9 Oct 2023, 16:31 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When you focus primarily on their automotive operations, it's easy to forget just how many places Honda's engineers have their sights set on at any given moment. From quality motorcycles to fast, efficient business jets, there's seld...
9 Oct 2023, 15:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / To a certain set of people on a certain continent, the best low-slung, two-seater, rear-wheel-drive sports car from Ford back in the day wasn't the Mustang, but instead the Ford Capri. All the more interesting because the man who designed it, ...
9 Oct 2023, 13:48 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Remember when people couldn't stop raving about the C8 Corvette Stingray? When people shouted from the rooftops that the first mid-engine Corvette was a sign that the American auto industry could finally be taken seriously in the sports car sp...
8 Oct 2023, 18:52 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Some time ago, we took a trip to the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Central New York, where museum staff had managed to piece together the remains of two Curtiss P-40 Warhawks that'd collided mid-air decades ago into something resembling an intact...
8 Oct 2023, 17:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Will people ever stop talking about late 60s and early 70s Dodge Chargers like they were a divine gift from an all-powerful muscle car deity that only Americans worship? Well, people haven't stopped since the day they left the factory floor, s...
8 Oct 2023, 16:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you've checked the pricing for heavy-duty dually trucks lately, you'll know the experience is similar to the sensation of having your elbows smashed in with a ball-peen hammer and being asked to write a check for at least $60,000 for t...
8 Oct 2023, 14:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / South Africa is a country that's in a spot of bother at the moment. But even in the face of generation-shaping problems on their home soil, the spirit of endurance, perseverance, and genuine innovation is still rife within its people. Want pro...
7 Oct 2023, 17:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There are few things on the Lord's Earth that are better than a well-sorted, old-school JDM rear-wheel drive sports car. There's just something about that classic rear-drive sports coupe layout we've come to associate with muscle car...
7 Oct 2023, 14:59 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In its stock form, the 1980 Mercury Zephyr is the official car of going to church every day and twice on Sunday, going slow as molasses in the dead of winter the entire time. It's not the kind of car that inspires most people to drive it quick...
6 Oct 2023, 17:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Ford Crown Victoria is the kind of car that was built to be driven into the ground before being repaired cheaply and easily to get right back to it again. You might delude yourself into thinking there simply aren't any nice Crown Victorias...
6 Oct 2023, 14:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For all the mythos surrounding the old Volkswagen Type 2 Bus, all the flower children and the hippies smoking out their cabins in a haze of "legal tobacco," they weren't exactly the nicest things in the world to drive. Heck, even dri...
6 Oct 2023, 13:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Elon Musk might want you to believe he's a real genius for deciding to build SpaceX's Starship mostly out of stainless steel. He might hope you marvel at an ingenious use of high-quality build materials that, more often than not, aren...
5 Oct 2023, 20:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Nobody needs to drive a 1970s-vintage American landship. They don't need a 400-cubic inch (6.6-L) V8 that treats the average gas station pump with all the hostility and prejudice of a swarm of murder hornets who stumble upon a hive of defensel...
5 Oct 2023, 18:59 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Renault Clio is unobtanium here in the U.S. unless you count any of the video games the car's made appearances in, that is. But over in Europe, old Clios, usually the older 172 models, are downright affordable these days, even on a shoestr...
5 Oct 2023, 16:26 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The long-term existence of the Alfa Romeo brand under their new corporate overlords at Stellantis group has been brought into question at times recently. There's a sense that the awe and occasion native to the Alfa Romeo brand might not be as ...