Benny Kirk
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Aston Martin Returning to Le Mans in 2025 With Valkyrie Hypercar, Expect Big Things
4 Oct 2023, 17:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Aston Martin Valkyrie might just be the ultimate British driving machine in its road-legal configuration. With over 1,100 horsepower of hybrid drivetrain to work with and a sticker price that'd make dozen-room mansions in Beverly Hills blu...
Honda's Passport Is Back for 2024MY, Flexes Enhanced Trailsport Trim Pack for 4x4 Junkies
4 Oct 2023, 16:26 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With Toyota having unveiled the 2024 4Runner this week, it's easy to think the titans from Aichi have won the day yet again. But hot off the heels of their mortal rivals, it's now Honda's turn to take the spotlight with the 2024 Pass...
Chip Foose's Z/28-Swapped Chevy C/10 is a Classic Restomod Truck Done to Perfection
3 Oct 2023, 19:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Chip Foose is a gift to the hot-rodding community that keeps on giving year after year. Any custom build that leaves his shop is bound to have a flair and an heir of quality to it that only a handful of fabricators anywhere in the world could ever ...
Highly-Modified Ford Flathead V8 Sports Ultra-Rare Ardun Heads and Over 700 Horsepower
3 Oct 2023, 16:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Even if you're not all that familiar with pre-war American engines, most modern American gearheads have at least heard of the Ford flathead V8. If you have heard of it, you're probably conditioned to think it wasn't special performan...
Scotland's Only Automaker Launches Crowdfunding for All-Electric SUVs and Pickups
3 Oct 2023, 15:15 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In case you weren't aware, the only volume production-scale automotive manufacturer native to Scottish soil is the Munro Vehicles group. Headquartered in the spirited but scrappy city of Glasgow, is it any wonder their main product so far is t...
Toyota Flexes New 2024 4Runner, Flaunts All-New TRD Sport Package
3 Oct 2023, 13:31 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Through snow, sleet, mud, gravel, and decades of school runs with the kids, it feels like nothing can stop the Toyota 4Runner from being a force on and off the road in North America. For 2024, Toyota knew to stick to a formula they knew would bring...
This Focke-Wulf Fw 190A Terrorized Allied Bomber Pilots, Now It's for Sale
2 Oct 2023, 23:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you were an Allied pilot during the Second World War and saw a German Focke-Wulf Fw 190, one of two things would happen. Either you soil yourself in terror and kiss your rear end goodbye, or you start engaging in some of that pilot stuff and hop...
Ukrainian Soldiers Capture Russian T-72 Tank, Call Customer Support When it Breaks
2 Oct 2023, 16:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In Vladimir Putin's ideal world, a proverbial sea of Russian T-72 main battle tanks (MBTs) would roll through the Ukrainian front lines and march uncontested through the streets of Kyiv like a Russian-spoken reenactment of the Fall of France i...
This Austin Allegro Is a British Icon, Watch Its Rebirth on an Integra Type R Chassis
2 Oct 2023, 15:09 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you're an American and you remember the Austin Allegro at all, it's probably because Jeremy Clarkson once famously decreed that it was marginally better than the Morris Marina. That's despite the fact that both cars were built by ...
Danish Air Force Takes Delivery of Four F-35A Stealth Fighters, Even More on the Way
2 Oct 2023, 14:15 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Call it a slow, ugly, or an overly expensive garbage aircraft as much as you want. But the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II will soon be the backbone of nearly all NATO-member Air Forces going forward, regardless of the public's unnecessarily...
Toyota Doubles Down on 2023 Rebelle Rally, Sending Six Cars Instead of Three
2 Oct 2023, 13:15 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Toyota will be out in full force at this year's 2023 Rebelle Rally, one of North America's rally racing events reserved exclusively for women drivers and their support crews. After sending only three vehicles to the landmark event in 2022...
Forget a New Grand Cherokee, This 392-Swapped Cherokee Is Twice as Awesome
30 Sep 2023, 16:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The fifth-generation WL-series Jeep Grand Cherokee is something of a hit-or-miss vehicle. Sure, it's a little more refined than Grand Cherokees tend to be the last 20 years or so, and the fuel economy isn't exactly god-awful, considering ...
I Hate to Admit It, But It's Time For the A-10 Warthog to Retire
29 Sep 2023, 16:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / I friggin love the A-10 Warthog. I've flown it in Ace Combat, War Thunder, and even the knockoff version in GTA Online. I've marveled at them in museums across multiple American states and even stood on the same grounds where the prototyp...
McLaren's Speedtail Hypercar Inspired This XP2 Custom-Built, One-Off Guitar
28 Sep 2023, 15:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / These weirdly contrived correlation products between high-end sports car makers and non-automotive pieces of equipment seem to not make sense sometimes. Just look at the Bentley Mulliner-branded kid's tricycle if you don't believe us. But...
This Custom 1952 GMC Truck Was Built by Yanks, Powered by Germans, and Modified in Britain
27 Sep 2023, 18:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Despite what you might think, classic American cars are more popular overseas than they've ever been in the past. Whether because of the internet or some other factor, it seems national boundaries aren't the hurdles toward enthusiasm they...
2JZ-Swapped '01 Toyota Tacoma Screams Resale Value and Big Horsepower
27 Sep 2023, 12:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / High resale values and Toyota Tacoma trucks go together like peanut butter and jelly. It's like the virtues of an honest, reliable light pickup truck that doesn't break down every five minutes have even more value in 2023 than when these ...
Frontline Cars’ Rover V8-Swapped MGB is a British Sports Car Done Right
26 Sep 2023, 20:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's easy for American petrolheads to gloss over the true-to-form classic British sports car. There's something about their trademark diminutive form factor and less-than-enormous sized engines that don't mesh well with American car ...
This Harrier GR9A Ate Tarmac in Kandahar 14 Years Ago, Now It’s for Sale
26 Sep 2023, 19:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It may be easy for the average av-geek to look the other way at the Harrier Jump Jet's less-than-stellar safety record. All the sneers and quips about it being three times more likely to crash than an F-18 and five times more likely than an A-...
This 43-Year Old Prototype EV Has a Hair Dryer for a Defroster, It’s for Sale
25 Sep 2023, 20:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A couple of years ago, a delightful YouTube channel by the name of Aging Wheels reviewed a long-forgotten prototype EV called the Electrek Uncar panel van. With a brushed-DC electric motor with regen braking, a totally custom controller unit, and 1...
This 2JZ-Swapped Lada Riva is Japanese Precision Wrapped in a Funny Soviet Suit
25 Sep 2023, 16:28 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We're huge fans of old-school claptrap cars from now-defunct communist countries. If for no other reason than the cars built in these places are a lens through which to view what life was like there before the Iron Curtain fell three decades a...