Benny Kirk
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Charger 392 Scat Pack Challenges C43 AMG, Winner May Surprise You
26 Jan 2022, 18:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Dodge Charger 392 Scat Pack and the Mercedes-AMG C 43 are two cars that find very different ways of achieving what is essentially the same end product. That being a sports sedan that's both capable and exhilarating to drive. But what happe...
YouTuber's Lamborghini Countach Rewards One Year Of Ownership With Mysterious Leak
26 Jan 2022, 17:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Tyler Hoover of Hoovies Garage doesn't get to check a lot of projects in the win column. More of then than not, every hooptie that he buys winds up costing him so much money that it'd be downright sad if not for the ad money making up for...
DIY Guru Sorts Through America's Cheapest C5 Corvette, Goes From Bad to Worse
26 Jan 2022, 16:47 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / WatchJRGo on YouTube isn't afraid of an old-fashioned challenge. But when he picked up what he believed was the absolute cheapest runing and driving C5 Chevy Corvette in America, we bet he didn't fathom just how big of a pickle he'd ...
Battlefield 2042's Launch Was an Epic Fail, EA Now Mulling Free-to-Play Game Model
26 Jan 2022, 16:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's not often we get to discuss video game-related news here, but when we do, we'd appreciate it if the game was complete and ready to go when we buy it. That simply wasn't the case for EAs Battlefield 2042. Now riddled with scandal...
Half Car, Half Airplane: The Arrowbile Flying Car Was Master of Neither
25 Jan 2022, 21:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / An entire century and more after the airplane and the automobile had their genesis, mankind has yet to merge the two paradigms into a package that was even remotely practical. But that didn't stop people from trying, especially in the golde...
This Hangar Takes Old Warplanes and Restores Them to Museum Condition, X-Wing Makes Cameo
25 Jan 2022, 19:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, is one of the East Coast's premier aviation museum spaces. With over 150 different aircraft of all sizes and shapes on display, it takes tons of TLC to keep everything looking shiny. ...
Would You Take This Supercharged V8 4Runner Over a New Bronco Raptor
24 Jan 2022, 21:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The unveiling of the all-new 2022 Ford Bronco has us in a real off-roading type of mood. But with a $70,000 price tag, is it a better idea to use the same money to build something custom? If you ask the people who built this supercharged Toyota 4Ru...
22 Year Old Wins First AMA Supercross Race in San Diego, Here's Why It's Historic
24 Jan 2022, 21:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Most 20-something's haven't even moved out of their parent's houses yet. But based on the results of the latest AMA Supercross 450cc race, not everybody matures at the same rate. That's how we feel after the 22-year-old Chase S...
James Webb Telescope Completes Weeks Long Voyage to L2 Orbit
24 Jan 2022, 20:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you haven't been paying attention, the age of the Second Great Space Race is upon us. We understand if paying the bills and tending to your life made it hard to keep up with things. We say this because the $10 billion wonder telescope named...
MQ-8C Fire Scout UAV Ready to Fly with the Navy, No Xbox Controller Required
24 Jan 2022, 19:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Northrop-Grumman's had an absolute banner last few months, seeing the successful launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, a project they played a huge part in constructing. Only a few short weeks later, the team is ready for its next big proj...
Step Aside, Brabus, This Jeep CJ-5 is the Coolest 6x6 Around, The Cheapest Too
24 Jan 2022, 17:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Brabus G-Wagen and Hennessey Velociraptor 6x6s are world-renowned as the ultimate flex for music artists and pro athletes who've made it big. We're looking at you, Post Malone. But we wonder very much if Postie would be just as comfor...
Wayne Taylor Racing Acura Wins Rolex 24 at Daytona Qualifying Race
24 Jan 2022, 17:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's been an absolute banger of a month for Honda/Acura on both the streets and on the race track. After the successful start of production of the NSX Type S supercar, the team from Japan scored another W in the opening qualifying races for th...
Doug DeMuro Gets Up Close and Personal With the New 2022 Bronco Raptor, Lots to Love
24 Jan 2022, 16:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Does it really surprise anybody that Doug DeMuro was one of the very first outside of Ford to get up-close and personal with the all-new 2022 Bronco Raptor? If it does, you must be pretty new to the car enthusiast scene because "Papa Doug,&quo...
The Cheapest C5 Corvette in the U.S., Saved From the Junk Yard, Sports Red Leather
24 Jan 2022, 15:37 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / WatchJRGo on YouTube and beat up old sports cars pair together like bread and butter. It's as if one can't or at least refuses to exist without the other. So when out on a journey to help one of his buddies find a fix-em-up Escalade for c...
Car Wizard Enchanted by Ultra Rare 1975 Mercury Grand Marquis, Fully Loaded Too
23 Jan 2022, 21:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's not all that rare to see a clapped-out old Lincoln Continentals of mid 70s vintage coaxed into service out of desperation or the novelty. What is rare is to find a mint condition, fully loaded Mecury variant of these Ford vehicles. That&#...
Doug DeMuro Mesmerized by $3.5 Million Lamborghini Essenza SCV12, Shame He Can't Drive it
23 Jan 2022, 19:48 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Doug DeMuro isn't above dishing out criticism about Lamborghini any more than any other brand. He's made no bones about seemingly endless special edition hypercars based on the Aventador feeling like kicking the new flagship Lambo questio...
1994 Mitsubishi Jeep Could Be on the Next Boat to New York, More Quirky Than the Real Jeep
23 Jan 2022, 18:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For a moniker so associated with America, freedom, and fuel economy so woeful it may as well sip on crude oil all day, the Jeep name's found itself used in several non-Chrysler and non-AMC companies. Today, let's focus on one made in Japa...
GM Spends Big Money on Western New York EV Parts Facility, Here's Why it's Huge News
23 Jan 2022, 17:37 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The EV revolution is preparing to take the world by storm far sooner than any of us may have anticipated. But if we're actually going to live in the fabled post-internal-combustion utopia, we're going to need a heck of a big factory suppl...
Fisher P-75 Eagle: Designed By General Motors, Destined for Epic Failure
23 Jan 2022, 01:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You wouldn't believe the kind of shady things that "too big to fail" sized American automotive companies have gotten away with. From stealing patents from independent inventors to building Pintos with explode-happy fuel tanks, we...
This Japanese Rocket-Powered Manned Missile Struck Horror into Allied Sailors in WWII
22 Jan 2022, 20:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's important to understand the pilots of the Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka piloted anti-ship missiles were not just trained soldiers who craved death more than we desire life. They were real human beings with wives, families, children, emotions, and a...