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12 Sep 2022, 10:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Rocket launch scrubs are just a part of the territory. Even so, watching two back-to-back scrubs of the SLS rocket carrying the Artemis I Orion spacecraft to a trip around the Moon was like taking two football punts right in the feels. After a seco...
12 Sep 2022, 09:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / What good is a late 80s Toyota product that doesn't have its odometer filled up to its eyeballs and a lifetime of memories piled up inside the interior? Doesn't it sort of defeat the purpose of building a vehicle as dependable and bulletp...
12 Sep 2022, 08:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The largest sin the original VW Beetle ever committed was sporting a drivetrain seemingly made of wet paper bags. So to say, it could have been better in the power department. Well, we're not sure swapping the stock air-cooled Beetle engine fo...
11 Sep 2022, 20:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The words of Doug DeMuro are not the infallible divine words of some supreme automotive being. But that doesn't mean millions of people don't listen when he has something to say. So when he released his updated list of the most underappre...
11 Sep 2022, 18:59 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When it comes to fast Fords of the 1960s, everybody remembers the Mustang. But people who don't have knowledge of every engine that went into every sporty Ford to memory likely don't know you could have just about any car in the lineup wi...
11 Sep 2022, 18:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The largest sin most people will ever levy against a late 80s Toyota Pickup truck is to only wish the engine were louder and more vivacious. Well, it looks like one anonymous private Autotrader user out of Pearl River, New York, decided to do jus...
10 Sep 2022, 19:25 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Volvo 740 sedan is a car so mundane, so unrelentingly sensibly Swedish, that it has about as much curb appeal as the masonry brick we can only assume inspired its design. That is unless you're a lover of quirky less-than-exotic cars like w...
10 Sep 2022, 16:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / New York City is not all that car-friendly, even at the best of times. But with a freshly installed new mayor full of vim and vigor forging his legacy in the Big Apple, it might be about to get even more unfriendly to the motor car than ever before...
9 Sep 2022, 20:22 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If there's one thing Americans love more than a strong military and an even stronger economy, it's classic V8 pickup trucks. There is a seemingly endless hoard of people ready to disembowel their own bank accounts to get within a few feet...
9 Sep 2022, 18:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The best big surprises come in small packages. Now, if you'll take a moment to stop giggling, we're talking about a car this time. But no, seriously, take a look at this tiny Triumph TR7 British sports car stuffed to the gills with a 472-...
9 Sep 2022, 03:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Times are changing fast in the automotive industry. That shouldn't come as a shock for anyone who pays attention to what global car builders are up to. But if nothing else, a worldwide forced transition from internal combustion to all-electric...
8 Sep 2022, 19:22 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Even by the standards of the late 1960s, nobody really needed a V8 engine with 500 cubic inches (8.2-liters) of displacement, 600 lbs (272.1 kg) of dry weight (without the accesories), and 400-plus gross horsepower as their daily driver. But back i...
8 Sep 2022, 12:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's V8 Month here at autoevolution. A month-long celebration of all the engines with eight cylinders arranged in a V-formation and all the wacky designs therein. That isn't just limited to things with four wheels and tires. It includes a...
7 Sep 2022, 16:32 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / More so than in any other car-producing nation, there is and has been a disconnect between what the American auto industry believes its customers want to buy and what they actually want to buy. Whether or not it works out in the end when a finished...
6 Sep 2022, 20:13 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The word sleeper in an automotive context gets thrown around quite a bit these days. With that in mind, a broad spectrum of custom cars and trucks fit under the sleeper umbrella. But what if you're looking for something on the more "extre...
2 Sep 2022, 20:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A space mission on a grand scale, the likes of the Artemis Program is one far too large for one space agency, one nation, or one company. That's why perhaps the most functionally vital portion of the spacecraft doesn't come from NASA but ...
2 Sep 2022, 17:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / All eyes at the Kennedy Space Center were focused on the Kennedy Space Center news auditorium the day before Artemis I's second launch attempt in five days. After a disappointing launch scrub the first time around on August 29th, the media and...
2 Sep 2022, 00:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Private companies have been aiding NASA's manned spaceflight initiatives since the very beginnings of the agency. In that regard, the only difference between the Apollo era and the era of SpaceX, Sierra Space, and Blue Origin is this time, the...
1 Sep 2022, 18:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Everybody sings the praises of the Saturn V booster rocket that helped bring American boots onto the surface of the Moon, and rightfully so. But so often lost in translation in telling the story of the Apollo program is there were other rockets in ...
1 Sep 2022, 02:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As the crow flies, there are roughly three miles (4.8 km) between the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and any of the three launch pads at LC-39. NASA could make its astronauts make the trip in a series of golf carts if...