Benny Kirk
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LS9 Swapped 1959 Impala Melts Our Hearts and Steals our Spouses.
17 Dec 2021, 20:18 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Southern California is the spiritual home of the American Hot Rod. But in a sea of tuners building sub-par restomods, a few pearls can still be found. Assuming you take the time to pick them out of the crowd, of course. This supercharged LS9 swappe...
Joe Manchin Back at It: Stonewalls EV Tax Credit, Rejects Coastal Oil Drilling Ban
17 Dec 2021, 16:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If there are two things that exist in America that get along like oil and water, it's electric cars and Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin. Senator Manchin first came to our attention after he voiced his disapproval of President Joe ...
Car Prices Are in the Stratosphere, U.S. Senator Warren Says Greed Is to Blame
17 Dec 2021, 16:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Never at any point in motorcar history have average prices skyrocketed to the degree they have in the last 12 months. As a global supply chain nightmare strangleholds, the industry like a frightened animal caught in a bear trap, one Massachusetts s...
Chrysler Slant-Six Powered Air Tug Hauls Old Warplanes, Not Cessnas
16 Dec 2021, 21:59 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The only time most of us care about an aircraft tug is when we're launching one-off a cargo ramp in Grand Theft Auto. But in real life,this NMC-Wollard Model 100's job is to lug around something more special than some Cesnass at the l...
Daimler Claims EV Battery Sustainability Will Be the Next Great Automotive Challenge
16 Dec 2021, 16:52 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The global auto industry's latest obsession is the notion that batteries in electric vehicles need not pollute the environment in the way they have in the past. Different automakers have come up with unique solutions to this issue. But Daimler...
Toyota Joins Efforts to Supports Relief After Devastating U.S. Tornado Outbreak
15 Dec 2021, 21:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There were no mentions of sales data, carbon footprints, or flashy new EV models in Toyota's latest press release. Something far more important and dire than any of that was at hand. Today, the company announced that their American division wi...
Classic Toyota Chinook RV Sells For Same as a Year's Rent in Dingy Studio Apartment
15 Dec 2021, 20:42 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Wherever in the world you may go, the cost of living is growing larger and larger. This makes some people resort to the extreme and take to the roads in vehicles they also call their home. As far as mobile home nomad life goes, we can think of less...
Price Released for Cupra Born, Matches That of the Range-Topping Tesla Model 3
15 Dec 2021, 20:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Cupra isn't the household name, especially if you're not in a country where they sell cars. But the lesser-known performance-oriented sibling company to the VW-owned Spanish SEAT is now dabbling in the all-electric market. With their all-...
GTA Online: Modder Adds Brand New Russian Fighter Jet, Dukes It Out With U.S. Navy Ships
15 Dec 2021, 20:25 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / What's especially funny about seeing the new Sukhoi SU-75 (NATO sign: Checkmate) jet fighter being modded into games like Ace Combat is this. It's a fair bet to say most gamers first heard of this plane's existence not by Russian sta...
Group B Audi Quattro Reborn as Ken Block's New S1 Hoonitron, It's Bloody Fantastic
15 Dec 2021, 17:32 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Don't tell us they don't make rally cars like they used to. Because thanks to world-renowned horsepower junkie Ken Block, the Group B Audi Quattro is back, as the all new S1 Hoonitron concept. Watch out, Pikes Peak, your daddy's bac...
Tesla Tells French Govt There Was No Sign of Technical Problems in Deadly Paris Crash
15 Dec 2021, 16:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The push for Tesla to make their Model 3 the next go-to taxi vehicle took a terrible blow Saturday, December 11th. When one operated by the G7 Cab company of Paris lost control. Injuring 20 and killing one person in the horrific crash. Now, Tesla&#...
Enjoy All You Can of this Supercharged MINI Cooper S Before Its Inevitable Breakdown
14 Dec 2021, 21:56 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Those among us who declare the used car market dead in the water thanks to the chip shortage must not have passed through classics.autotrader.com recently. We say this because we've brought you an affordable, fun, and stylish little car right ...
Vice President Harris Visits EV Charger Manufacturer, Promises Supercharging Network Soon
14 Dec 2021, 06:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In the first year of her four-year vice presidency term, Kamala Harris hasn't had the easiest going of things. But she had a fantastic opportunity to show off some of the infrastructures her and Joe Biden's new spending bill is set to fea...
V12 Swapped BMW 316i is The German Answer to American Hot Rods
14 Dec 2021, 06:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Take every notion you've ever had about Germans being stuffy and un-comedic and throw it out the window. Why? Because this 1994 BMW 316i swapped with the 5.6 liter V12 from an 8-series is hilarious and impressive in every sense of those words....
Lamborghini Wins Seventh GT3 International Title, Sticks it to Ferrari Yet Again
14 Dec 2021, 05:17 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Lamborghini doesn't have quite the same pro racing pedigree as competitors like Mercedes or Ferrari. But that doesn't mean they don't have any at all, quite the opposite, in fact. They've now increased this at the hands of their...
GTA Online: Player RPs as New York City DOT Worker, About as Effective as In Real Life
14 Dec 2021, 01:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There are more occupations to roleplay in Grand Theft Auto Online than you would ever believe if you're not familiar with the game. You could be a multimillionaire businessperson, drug smuggler, police officer, or even a prisoner. But a New Yo...
DCS World: Can a Squadron of A-10s Really Take Out a WW2 Navy Fleet?
13 Dec 2021, 22:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You tend to hear a bunch of claims when you've been into military aviation for as long as some of us have. Many blanket statements proclaiming one aircraft to be demonstrably better than one from another time and another era. These debates o...
Bosch Chairman Says European Car Industry "Too Reliant on Other Regions"
12 Dec 2021, 21:32 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A complex economy has its foundation in a game of giving and taking between different regions of the world. But if you ask the outgoing CEO of the German tech giants at Bosch, he'll tell you the automotive sector is far too globally connected....
Adorable Tricked Out Daihatsu Mini-Truck Is All Show, No Go
12 Dec 2021, 20:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We've touched on far eastern countries being more willing to modify smaller, lighter vehicles than in the west before. But there comes the point where a car is so tiny and underpowered that turbocharging the engine or some other nonsense simpl...
1947 Plymouth Coupe Is Far From Stock, Seethe if You Wish
12 Dec 2021, 14:13 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There are two schools of thought you can choose to take when purchasing a classic car. You could either keep everything as close to numbers matching as possible. Or, if you're really bold, you can modify it to be every bit as capable on modern...