Benny Kirk
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2024 Chevrolet Blazer SS EV: Tesla Rival, Or Mediocre Crossover?
10 Mar 2022, 20:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The classic Chevy Blazer used to be the kind of truck where nobody questioned its motives. Its purpose was to serve as one of the most dependable and capable 4x4 off-roaders in the American market this side of a classic Range Rover. With all its ot...
2022 Toyota Mirai Just Got Even More Cool Tech, Advanced Driver Assistance Included
10 Mar 2022, 16:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Toyota Mirai is the kind of car most people wouldn't make a fuss about if it didn't exist. Mainly because of how plain-looking and "normal" it looks to the untrained eye. But lord above, we're beyond happy it does. Th...
1933 Chevrolet Master Eagle Comes From a Time When Chevy Wasn't Mediocre
10 Mar 2022, 04:59 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's hard to remember a time when Chevrolet wasn't cripplingly mediocre. Or downright awful, in some cases. Some Americans who were young in the 60s will even tell you most General Motors muscle cars were poorly built piles of junk, too, ...
Northrop Grumman Inks $65 Million Deal to Produce New Datalink System for AH-1Z Chopper
9 Mar 2022, 20:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Bell AH-1Z Viper was a technological marvel in its day, so too is its upgraded counterpart, the AH-1 SuperCobra. But even really, really good military aircraft need some upgrades every now and then, and their datalink systems are no exception. ...
Cadillac Wishes They Could Build Something as Cool as This 1932 370B V12 Again
9 Mar 2022, 20:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Cadillac is a boring company, right? At least that's what we've been told over and over again endlessly, all while brilliant V-series sports coupes and sedans from the brand continued to be ignored in favor of Audis and BMWs. But in the e...
Honda-General Electric's HF120 Jet Engines Pass 200k Flight Hours, Sadly Without VTEC
9 Mar 2022, 17:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Honda has their hands in just about every facet of vehicle design, engineering, and production. The realm of passenger jet aerospace is no different, as their HF120 light turbofan jet engine. A design that just this week logged its 200,000th flight...
Classic 1976 Mitsubishi Jeep is a Japanese Take on an American 4X4 Heavyweight
9 Mar 2022, 02:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You wouldn't believe the amount of money a handful of automakers across the globe made manufacturing what any American would identify as a Jeep. Then again, maybe not. Because they've been doing it for almost as long as Jeep themselves ha...
Cirrus Vision SF50: The Tiny Personal Jet That Inspired a GTA V Icon
8 Mar 2022, 21:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's hard to remember a time when Grand Theft Auto Online wasn't so overly-saturated with bonkers vehicles of all varieties. This is especially true when it comes to aircraft. They have a replica of the Me-163 rocket fighter from World Wa...
Pete Buttigieg, the EV Industry's Man in Washington
8 Mar 2022, 17:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A short while ago, we showed you how the beef between EV mogul Elon Musk and card-carrying petrolhead Jeremy Clarkson may have played a role in electric vehicles gaining international attention for the first time. But let's be honest, to put a...
Coyote V8 Swapped Mustang II Turns an Ugly Duckling to a Beautiful Swan
8 Mar 2022, 17:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Pinto-based Ford Mustang II was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad car. Anyone with a passing knowledge of muscle cars would be able to tell you that. But performance tuners are fickle people. When they want to modify something, it usually...
This 1925 Hispano-Suiza H6 is Emerging From Its French Crypt for Auction
6 Mar 2022, 22:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Unless some of you are here via a time machine, none of us got to see the first golden age of automobiles, the roaring 1920s. But if you will, think of some of the famous names in the luxury car field, especially those that found their beginnings i...
NASCAR V8-Swapped Lamborghini Huracan Has Italian Body, But the Spirit of America
6 Mar 2022, 18:15 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Some Europeans can't stand American cars. That's supposedly a rule to live and die by for some gearheads. They think American cars are slow, heavy, unsophisticated, and driven by barely literate people in cowboy hats while munching on che...
Kia Committing to the EV Truck Market, Can It Slay the Current Goliaths?
6 Mar 2022, 10:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Who'd have ever thought Kia as a company would be anywhere near as well regarded as it's wound up becoming? There was a time when Kias had a reputation so poor that even used car dealerships had a hard time selling them. Not anymore, thou...
Hot Pink Two-Tone 1956 Chevy Bel Air Proves Pink Is a Manly Color
5 Mar 2022, 23:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You would think a classic car dealership like MAXmotive would find itself situated on some elite piece of property in some snooty U.S. city, like Los Angeles or Miami. But no, these hearty folks call Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, their home. And th...
Brand New 2022 WACO Float Plane is an American Icon Reborn, Not Cheap
5 Mar 2022, 20:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For all their importance before and during the Second World War, not many outside of enthusiast circles have ever even heard of the WACO Aircraft Company. In truth, the moniker's been shut down and re-started a couple of times before. Thi...
Classic 1949 Diamond T Dump Truck is no Ford, Chevy, or Dodge, It's a Chi-Town Hero
4 Mar 2022, 21:17 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We bet you thought they didn't allow anyone outside of Ford, GM, and Chrysler to produce heavy-duty trucks back in the classic days of American cars. Maybe you That no other company would be allowed to build a truck in a time where the big Det...
General Motors EV1: The EV That Disappeared as Soon as it Arrived
4 Mar 2022, 20:06 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's pretty easy to get bogged down in hyperbole when talking about all the Hollywood-level drama behind the scenes in the auto industry. But if you believe one bit of it, believe this, the story behind the General Motors EV1 had as many red f...
Ducati's Latest EV Bicycles Give Riders a Much Needed Boost, On or Off-Road
4 Mar 2022, 10:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You may scoff at the idea of an electrically assisted bicycle. You may especially laugh at the idea of a famous Italian brand famous for very loud superbikes for building electric bicycles. But you ought to be less judgemental. Because if the l...
Muscle Car EV Conversions: Sacrilegious or a Necessary Evil?
4 Mar 2022, 06:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We're petrolheads around these parts, we like V8s, we adore forced induction, and we pray not to Abrahamic gods but to the holy spirits of Shelby, Hennessey, and Mopar. So we took things pretty darn hard when it became obvious silent electric ...
Here's Why All-Electric Aircraft Are So Much Trickier Than Cars and Trucks
3 Mar 2022, 18:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Electric cars, be it of the battery or fuel cell variety, are all the rage. Much to the chagrin of petrolheads everywhere, it really looks like this avenue is the way forward, at least as far as four wheels are concerned. The same can't be...