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14 Aug 2022, 16:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Koenigsegg is a supercar brand perpetually on the outside, looking in on the established aristocracy. One can only assume long celebrated German and Italian supercar makers get pretty salty when a scrappy Swedish company builds something that does ...
13 Aug 2022, 14:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you buy into some of the more dubious beliefs regarding German military technology during World War II, you're probably inclined to believe they were capable of building just about anything. From ballistic missiles to atomic weapons and...
13 Aug 2022, 14:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You're bound to see a slew of different seafaring vessels during autoevolution's Sea Month. Cargo ships, pleasure yachts, megayachts, flying boats, and anything else that floats on the world's oceans (or the oceans of another world)....
12 Aug 2022, 19:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Whether intentional or not, military airplanes tend to exude a mystique of badassery about them. There's just something about giant engines and menacing camo paint jobs that can turn even the average cargo plane into a machismo-oozing weapon o...
11 Aug 2022, 19:06 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In our last item about seaplanes here in Sea Month, we looked at a U.S. Navy flying boat that nearly carried nuclear weapons into battle. But the Martin P6M SeaMaster was not the only attempt by the U.S. Navy to make a jet-powered seaplane into a w...
10 Aug 2022, 20:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If the U.S.Military wants something done, it gets done. This is the seemingly eternal paradox of the military-industrial complex. You or I might find a jet-powered strategic bomber with a ship's hull for an underside to be a silly idea. But be...
8 Aug 2022, 21:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It can be hard to believe it in hindsight. But before the 1940s, the relationship between Germany and the United States wasn't all that different from any other influential European country. That's why, 93 years ago to the date, the Germa...
8 Aug 2022, 17:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Brian of Regular Car Reviews on YouTube is the kind of guy more likely to point out the positive points of a bone stock mid-80s Dodge Omni before he'd sing the praises of an unobtanium psycho-supercar. But when it comes to the Tesla Model S Pl...
7 Aug 2022, 02:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Westen Champlin is a man with simple tastes. Big turbos, bigger engines, and lots of long, straight Kansas roads surrounded by cornfields on either side to do burnouts in. But for no other reason other than a lust for something to tow with his belo...
6 Aug 2022, 06:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / During the Second World War, it wasn't just manpower, overwhelming firepower, and cutting-edge tactics that saw the Allies to victory. More than anything else, the nail in the coffin for the Axis forces was raw, relentless production. We s...
6 Aug 2022, 05:57 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Airports are kind of a pain in the you-know-what for most cities. They take up more land than most zip codes, fill the air with CO2 and noise pollution, and in some cases, the property values of the homes near a major international airport are stil...
5 Aug 2022, 07:26 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In many ways, the Russians were the heart and soul of the International Space Station. They launched Zarya, its first human-rated station component, into Low Earth Orbit. They also shouldered the bulk of the launch burden to get to the station afte...
5 Aug 2022, 05:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If there's one thing we love to do around here, it's to direct our readers towards YouTube channels, subreddits, and so forth that can help you learn key tricks of the mechanic's trade. That's why Dave, the "Car Wizard"...
5 Aug 2022, 04:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / USS Midway (CV-41) may have made its final voyage from Yokosuka bound for Pearl Harbor in August 1991. But in the pages of history, The story will read that this mighty post-WWII aircraft carrier had its final battle over two decades later. Not on ...
4 Aug 2022, 04:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Before the Chiron, the Veyron, and the EB-110, Bugatti was forging its path in history with some of the finest designs of the 1920s and 30s. Original, mint condition versions of these old gentleman's racers, like the Type 35, are easily seven ...
4 Aug 2022, 03:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Depending on your perspective, Tyler Hoover of Hoovies Garage on YouTube is either one of auto-vlogging greatest savants or one of its biggest clowns. With his trusty team of mechanic buddy's help, he's come up with some wacky ideas for t...
4 Aug 2022, 01:47 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Westen Champlin is a renaissance man, a jovial Kansas farmboy whose biggest passion is making more horsepower than anyone ever really needs in their life. His Cummins turbodiesel-swapped late model Ford Mustang, the "Smokestang," might be...
3 Aug 2022, 15:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you've watched any of the Summer or Winter Olympic games over the last dozen or so years, chances are good you've spotted remote-powered drones flying over Olympic villages. Generally, they're little more than a nuisance to the pe...
3 Aug 2022, 01:10 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Aging Wheels on YouTube has a collection of electric cars in his garage that, had we not found his channel, we may have never known they even occupied the same universe we do. His bread and butter are regular ICE vehicles that have had their drivet...
2 Aug 2022, 22:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The first-generation Dodge Caravan was a transcendent car in the history of American cars. A car that an entire generation grew up in the back seats of. But in 2022, you wouldn't know it from looking at all the Odysseys and Siennas on American...