Benny Kirk
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Local Auto Industry Was Livid at Canadian Border Protests, Here's Why
22 Feb 2022, 06:06 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The chaos and mild pandemonium that was the scene of the Ambassador bridge blockade between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, may be over for now. But the effects of the stand-off at the Canadien-American border are just starting to heal for the North ...
People are Stealing NFTs, Why Lamborghini and Other Automakers Should Be Careful
22 Feb 2022, 06:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Non-fungible tokens, better known as NFTs, probably sound like a complete load of hogwash if you're not all that familiar with blockchain or cryptocurrency as a whole. But the NFT business is a legitimate multi-billion dollar enterprise. One t...
Is Nvidia the Right Company to Revitalize the Auto Industry?
21 Feb 2022, 04:18 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you're a PC gamer, you know and put respect on the name Nvidia. Furthermore, if you want to buy a graphics card, you buy it with an Nvidia chip. Why? Because who would want to be caught dead sporting an AMD card these days? That said, Nv...
Here's What May Have Happened if Northrop-Grumman Remained Two Separate Companies
21 Feb 2022, 02:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Northrop-Grumman is among the elite military contractors who routinely receive more government funding than some civilian tech companies will ever see from founding until solvency. People often forget that the two companies were once separate e...
Conviair YB60: Colossal, Jet Powered, and Slain By the Stratofortress
21 Feb 2022, 00:47 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When you're the U.S. Military, you go big or go home. But as it happens, even the Air Force has a limit when it comes to this ideology. It's hard to judge where they draw this line. But the massive, gargantuan, and positively super-jum...
Grumman LLV Mail Truck: A Miserable Tin Can Designed by a Fighter Plane Company
19 Feb 2022, 08:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Mail carriers have a pretty darn demanding job. They spend their days waking up at ungodly morning hours in rain, snow, or shine to bring our letters and packages. That said, who on Earth thought it was a good idea to let them drive an un-air-condi...
F7U Cutlass: Named Like a Muscle Car, Dangerous to Match
19 Feb 2022, 07:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Form doesn't always follow function when it comes to fighter jets. Even planes that look like spaceships and feature the latest technology can have too much hope invested in them far too quickly. Such is the case with the Vought F7U Cutlass. ...
Grumman 619 Shuttle: The Killer Looking Concept That Nearly Became the Space Shuttle
19 Feb 2022, 00:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Grumman Aerospace managed to crank out some pretty fantastic airplanes out of its Bethpage, New York production facilities before their merger with Northrop in 1994. Controversies about contaminating the local groundwater with manufacturing waste a...
Could the F-14D Tomcat Have Been Effective on a Modern Battlefield? Let's Discuss
18 Feb 2022, 23:32 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Okay, so the Grumman F-14 Tomcat is one of if not the most recognizable naval fighter aircraft in history. People gush over it as if it was the biggest travesty of the 21st century when it was decommissioned back in 2006. Quite a few theories h...
UK Scientists Make Huge Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Tech, Here's Why it's Historic
18 Feb 2022, 21:06 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / No, folks, you didn't misread this headline. And no, it isn't clickbait. It may have only been able to power a few dozen microwave ovens at present, but the manner in which European scientists generated this power is nothing short of asto...
Regular Car Reviews: The Certified Craziest (and Maybe the Best) Car Show on the Internet
17 Feb 2022, 21:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Are you sick and tired of the prim and proper attitude most car reviewers on YouTube and television tend to exude? Do you also think that Top Gear in its first 20 seasons was the greatest gift our Lord hath given us? Well, we think we know the perf...
Nvidia RTX Swapped Classic Hot Wheels PC is a Restomod With Hard Drives
17 Feb 2022, 20:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Custom gaming PC builders and custom car modders have more overlap in their fanbases than some of us may realize. There's just something about throwing a new graphics card or CPU into your system that gives the same satisfaction as fitting a t...
FB-22 Strike Raptor: The Stealth Bomber Raptor Variant That Never Was
17 Feb 2022, 06:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The American F-22 Stealth fighter can kick the snot out of just about any enemy fighter you could think of. Apart from possibly a few highly classified Chinese and Russian aggressors, there isn't a whole lot out there that can match it. But...
Life of Boris, the Delightful YouTuber Teaching Us to Mod Cars the Ex-Soviet Way
16 Feb 2022, 21:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Life of Boris on YouTube is one of those gem channels that we can't recommend enough. Not only do his comedy videos show us how to live our lives the Eastern European way, but he's also one heck of a petrolhead. This is Boris, owner, ...
F-16XL: The Jumbo-Sized, Delta-Winged Fighting Falcon, Defeated By the Strike Eagle
16 Feb 2022, 20:10 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The last time we showcased a wacky airplane project from the General Dynamics Corporation, we showed you how the F-111B, aka the fatter prototype F-14, failed to live up to just about every imaginable expectation. This time around, we thought i...
Jaguar and Land Rover: Separated from the Hip and Re-Conjoined Thrice
15 Feb 2022, 23:32 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A short while ago, we showed you how the once-mighty British automotive industry slowly and painfully lost nearly all of its most famous brands in a manner that makes Mercury's and Pontiac's deaths overseas seem like a slap on the wrist. ...
Defender V8 vs Bronco Raptor: Will Dealer Markups Make These Two Instant Rivals?
15 Feb 2022, 21:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's as exciting of a time to be a 4x4 enthusiast than perhaps at any point in the last 30 years. No matter what price range and specific market segment you're looking for, someone somewhere has exactly what you're looking for. But w...
Sub $1000 Mercedes CLK Proves Only Depreciation is Stronger Than Gravity
15 Feb 2022, 21:15 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When this 1998 Mercedes-Benz CLK 320 was brand new, it was true to form $40-ish thousand luxury sports coupe that hedge fund investors and .com beneficiaries something pretty gosh darn fantastic to commute to their company-owned Lower Manhattan par...
Here's Why the Old Space Shuttle Landing Facility Makes the Perfect Hyper Car Test Track
15 Feb 2022, 20:13 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / At 15,000 feet (4,572 m) in length, the Shuttle Landing Facility was so long that it'd tower over everything but the most prominent mountain ranges in the world if stacked into the sky. Most normal airplanes could land comfortably on the ...
Tupolev TU-4: The Soviet B-29 Copycat That Made NATO's Blood Boil
15 Feb 2022, 18:34 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, the Soviet Tupolev TU-4 should have made Western Nations tickled pink. But quite the opposite was the case. In fact, the impression on American Air Force leader's faces when they first lai...