Benny Kirk
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Aston Martin V12-Swapped '71 Range Rover is The British Empire on Four Wheels
3 May 2024, 01:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you had to encompass the very essence of what it means to be British into a single automobile, what would you come up with? Would be the embodiment of Winston Churchill, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, John Lennon, and Jeremy Clarkson all rolled into o...
Once Thought Extinct, These Four Japanese F1M2 Seaplanes Are Now for Sale
2 May 2024, 23:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There's a theme with disused aircraft from the Second World War. No sooner was the war at an end did nations across the globe throw vast bulks of their wartime hardware in the incinerator. So many warplanes from the period that ...
4x4 Bros Rejoice, BFG Drops All-Terrain T/A KO3 Tire Lineup
2 May 2024, 03:34 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / No one's been building purpose-built all-terrain tires for as long as BFGoodrich, albeit with a few different leading figures along the way. But with the 2024 lineup of BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO3 tires, there's all the proof that 30 y...
Confirmed: Red Bull's Adrian Newey Set To Leave Team Next Year, Focus on RB17 Hypercar
1 May 2024, 18:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Remember when everyone scoffed at Red Bull for sponsoring a Formula One team? How folks in the industry said an outsider of their ilk could never challenge the established Grand Prix racing aristocracy, let alone one whose primary funding came from...
Vengeance Racing's LSx-Swapped Gen-IV Trans Am Humbles M3s and Makes Hellcats Sweat
1 May 2024, 17:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In many opinions, the fourth-generation Pontiac Trans Am is a criminally underrated American sports coupe. With more different LS and LT-based V8s available over ten years than perhaps any other GM product, this model of Trans Am gave more thrills ...
Stunningly Preserved '69 Dodge Chinook Motorhome Wins the Van Life Flex Award
1 May 2024, 15:26 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / People in the van life or camper life scene love to one-up each other. Whoever has the biggest, most unique, and most luxurious homes on wheels gets extra brownie points in forums and subreddits across the internet. No one can ever truly win this g...
Low-Cost Aussie Airline Bonza Goes Belly Up Overnight, Leaves Passengers Stranded
30 Apr 2024, 18:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Australia is a tough market for domestic airlines to enter. With a large group of them all vying for passenger space along roughly the same routes, some are bound to rise while others fall. For the low-cost Bonza airline in particular, a company t...
Half Hilux, Half JDM Luxury, This 1 of 100 '96 Toyota Classic Just Landed on US Soil
30 Apr 2024, 04:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Oddball JDM cars are like our lifeblood around here. There's something about Japanese cars that looks like something out of a Shonen anime that speaks to us on a primordial level. You might be familiar with some of the more famous weird retro-...
This Aston Martin DBS Superleggera Was Traded In for a Velocity Restomod, Now for Sale
29 Apr 2024, 18:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Ordinarily, a 2022 Aston Martin DMS Superleggera Coupe would be old news for us. Undoubtedly still a phenomenal twin-turbo V12 super grand tourer with all the charm of a Bond film, just not quite as fresh in the mind of most folks the way newer mo...
Grab Groceries, the Kids, and a Speeding Ticket in This V8-Swapped 1998 Ford Explorer
29 Apr 2024, 15:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Ford sold over 400,000 second generation Explorer SUVs from 1995 to 2001. But by 2024, most of them have been sacrificed to the crusher gods or rusted back into the Earth from whence it came. But a small handful of these SUVs that once helped defin...
M551 Sheridan: An American Light Tank Hated By Everyone (Until It Wasn’t)
26 Apr 2024, 19:10 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / What makes a tank a failure? Does it have to have a drivetrain so unreliable you have to carry a spare transmission in the trunk? Does it need to ignite its ammo box and send the turret into low-Earth orbit when even a marginally competent anti-tan...
Driven: Velocity’s LT1-Swapped K5 Blazer Is the King of Restomod 4x4s
21 Apr 2024, 19:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We love K5 Chevy Blazers around here. There's something about a classic boxy 4x4 that no modern SUV can quite replicate. They're even better when they have their guts ripped out and replaced with as much modern hardware as you can possibl...
Driven: Velocity Restorations Built the Ultimate ’68 Mustang Restomod, We Drove It
20 Apr 2024, 18:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Driven is our signature series here at autoevolution. The place where we showcase our test drives for cars, trucks, bikes, powersports toys, and whatever else comes across our desk. But there's one common thread between everything in the Drive...
Hyundai Were the Kings of New York at This Year's NY Auto Show, Here's What Happens Next
19 Apr 2024, 05:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Well, the 2024 New York International Auto Show's been in the books for almost two weeks now. Though critics claim the show hits nowhere near as well as it used to, it's hard to argue that some manufacturers at the show looked far be...
Polaris Revamps RANGER Lineup for 2025, Touts RANGER CREW XP 1000 Texas Edition
16 Apr 2024, 16:09 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We're no stranger to Polaris' RANGER line of utility side-by-sides around here. From our test drive of the all-electric RANGER XP Kinetic about 18 months ago and the RANGER XD 1500 last year, we have it on good authority that the RANGER i...
Meet the Chicago Cutlass, Chi-Town's Rustiest, Rattiest Beater Turned Local Legend
14 Apr 2024, 18:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Imagine driving your 2023 Honda Civic through one of the nicer neighborhoods on the North Side of Chicago. You know, one of the ones near Wriggly Field where there's more craft beer restaurants per capita than people inhabiting them. You might...
BFGoodrich Let Me Ride Shotgun in a Trophy Truck at the 2024 Mint 400, It Blew My Mind
8 Apr 2024, 02:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The 2024 Mint 400 was by far and away the most exciting event we've covered live this year so far. There's something about a race that lets just about any vehicle blitz through the desert with a bare minimum of rules that speaks to me on ...
Ridden: Rundeer's Attack 10 E-Bike is Inspired by the A-10 Warthog, Let's Test It
6 Apr 2024, 16:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you're so inclined, you can absolutely bankrupt yourself by buying e-bikes. The level of accessibility and vast selection can be overwhelming for some people. That's why it's our job to sift through the e-bikes you should be inter...
Rolls-Royce Flexes Spectre at the 2024 New York Auto Show, Most Expensive EV in the Joint
3 Apr 2024, 03:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The 2024 New York Auto Show was a bit light this year in the "wow" department. At a show which, at least at a glance, looks awfully familiar to the one from the year before, and even the year before that in some cases (we're looking ...
Lamborghini's New Revuelto Hypercar Soaks in the Scenery in New York, Looks Menacing
3 Apr 2024, 02:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you've heard anything about the New York Auto Show over the last few years, it's probably along the lines of the show not hitting anywhere near like it used to. Blame a global health crisis, or blame a unionized event space with rules ...