Benny Kirk
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LS2 V8 Swapped Land Rover Discovery Conquers the Aussie Outback With Ease
22 Sep 2022, 03:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There are 4x4 and off-road fans that say big American V8s under the hood of SUVs and trucks that wouldn't travel more than 20 mph over trails are a complete waste of time. They claim that a low revving diesel with ample torque at low RPM will ...
The State of the American Rail Network Is a National Shame, We Can and Should Do Better
21 Sep 2022, 23:09 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Completely to the surprise of media pundits everywhere, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the SMART Transportation Division, the two largest rail worker unions in the U.S., struck a deal with freight rail companies this past...
Watching New Sequoias Roll of the Renovated Toyota Texas Production Line Is Mesmerizing
21 Sep 2022, 19:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Toyota celebrated a milestone this week as they watched the production of the 2023 Sequoia Hybrid SUV begin at their newest production facility based in San Antonio, Texas. This momentous day comes after the completion of a $391 million investment ...
MINI Reveals 20 Years Edition Cooper S Hardtop, Celebrates Two Decades of U.S. Dominance
21 Sep 2022, 17:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It feels like yesterday. The time when an all-time British motoring icon was reborn not as a bespoke English brand but under the control of the Germans and BMW. Well, time sure does fly when you're revving the snot out of a turbo four-pot. ...
Crusty 1977 Cadillac Eldorado V8 Clinging to Life, Can You Save It?
21 Sep 2022, 02:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / After the 1970s, Cadillac wouldn't again compete in the international luxury car market again in any meaningful way until the 21st century. Reminders of those glory days are hard to come by, and some may even fade from existence forever if not...
GM Will Be Just Fine Without the LS/LT V8, Better Than Chrysler Without the HEMI
21 Sep 2022, 01:13 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Recently on V8 Month, our 30-day celebration of all the world's great V8s, we talked about how Chrysler/Mopar losing their HEMI V8 to the EV menace is the auto industry equivalent of a tragedy. But the truth is that you could say that about pr...
Ford-Cosworth Indy V8: The Turbocharged Missing Link Between Formula 1, CART, and IndyCar
20 Sep 2022, 20:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Recently, we showcased to you a Ford-Cosworth XF V8 used in the now defunct CART open-wheel racing series for sale that's more likely to be turned into a table than to be put back in a race car. As it happens, the family of engines this partic...
Grand Theft Auto VI Needs to Be Flawless, Rockstar's Future Depends On It
20 Sep 2022, 05:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Well, folks, if you know, you know. For those that don't know, we're referring to the recent leak of over 90 videos worth of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay testing a hacker revealed to the masses. Safe to say, people's reaction to what...
2015 Ferrari 458 Speciale at Auction Nears $1 Million With a Week To Go, Will It Make It?
18 Sep 2022, 15:47 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / According to Jeremy Clarkson, the Ferrari 458 Italia in its original form was "one of the all-time great Ferraris." Meaning that if there were a short list of cars humanity wanted to save from extinction, the 458 would almost assuredly be...
Ryan Newman's Old NASCAR Cup Car Needs Some TLC, Will It Be Yours?
17 Sep 2022, 17:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / NASCAR Hall of Famer Rusty Wallace has driven some iconic stock cars in his long and illustrious career. Many of them are in museums or even in his own personal collection. But not this particular Penske Racing Dodge Charger. It's for sale on ...
Russia's Orel Spacecraft Aims to Challenge NASA's Orion to the Moon, They'll Need Luck
16 Sep 2022, 22:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With the imminent launch of NASA's Artemis I mission carrying a single Lockheed Martin Orion space capsule on a circumnavigation of the Moon, it may feel as though NASA and the ESA are alone in their race to the stars. But that'd be incor...
The Death of the Mopar HEMI V8 Will Be an All-Time Automotive Tragedy, Here’s Why
16 Sep 2022, 17:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A short time ago, we told the story of how the first generation classic Mopar HEMI engines of the 1950s laid the foundation for the icon the moniker would become later on. But if you've been paying attention to the auto industry lately, you�...
Coyote V8 Swapped 1978 Bronco Takes a Classic Icon and Makes It Substantially Angrier
16 Sep 2022, 16:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The second-generation Ford Bronco was an underappreciated watershed vehicle for the entire Ford Brand. Its legacy, along with the subsequent three further generations of classic Bronco, would be instrumental in drumming up enough public interest to...
1970 Pontiac GTO's 400-Cubic Inch V8 Is Fully Rebuilt, the Rest Looks Wicked Too
16 Sep 2022, 15:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If Domenic Toretto were a GM fan instead of a Mopar guy, he'd probably be driving something like this 1970 Pontiac GTO in the movies. But you don't need an iconic film character played by Vin Diesel behind the wheel to make a classic Amer...
NYC Yellow Cabs May See Fare Hike Soon, Uber and Lyft Laugh Manically
15 Sep 2022, 03:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / According to a recent Regular Car Reviews video, only ten NYC Taxi-spec Ford Crown Victorias are operating in the city as of mid-2022. By this time next year, that number will likely be zero. Coincidentally, this same time in the future m...
American Rail Worker Strike Likely Imminent, Amtrak Cancels Most Long Distance Routes
14 Sep 2022, 22:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As reported by the New York Times just after 5 p.m. EST on Wednesday, September 14th, unions representing America's railway workers, authorized a work stoppage related to an ongoing labor dispute by 12:01 a.m. this coming Friday morning. A...
This 1992 Dodge Dakota With a Magnum V8 is Overshadowed By Chevy S-10s, It Shouldn't Be
14 Sep 2022, 20:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Light-duty trucks from the late 80s and early 90s are hot cake items in 2022. But that doesn't mean there aren't deals to be had if you look hard enough. Granted, that inevitably means settling for something with more mileage on the odome...
Here's Why Your First Side-By-Side UTV Should Be All-Electric, It's Not Why You Think
14 Sep 2022, 18:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Until yesterday morning, I'd hardly ever seen a side-by-side vehicle before, let alone sat in or driven one. I simply didn't live in a part of the country conducive to owning a vehicle like that. But I was given the great privilege of bei...
Extra Spicy 1965 Mercury Comet Caliente Restomod Needs as Much Attention as a Hot Mustang
13 Sep 2022, 22:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The classic 60s Ford Mustang gets all the love. Even other models from Lincoln and Mercury that might use components borrowed from the Mustang don't receive nearly as much attention. This 1965 Mercury Comet Caliente may not share much with the...
Chinese Manned Lunar Program Will Challenge NASA's Artemis, Aims to Mine Moon Minerals
12 Sep 2022, 11:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In the acclaimed Apple TV series For All Mankind, the Soviets beat NASA to the Moon in 1969 after a series of engineering mishaps for the Americans that didn't happen in our timeline, giving the Communists the upper hand in the space race. Onl...