Benny Kirk
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Americans Have Trillions in Auto Debt, Could Be at Tipping Point
2 Nov 2021, 13:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There are more reasons to be pessimistic about the state of the auto industry than most people care to admit. With chip shortages and, well, everything shortages across the board, there's another issue lingering in the shadows that might be ev...
Custom Mustang X-1 Was Modeled After a Fighter Jet, LARPS as One Inside Air Force Museum
1 Nov 2021, 22:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We've had an absolute blast detailing our recent trip to the National Museum of the United States Air Force. As one with basic inferencing skills might have already guessed, most of the exhibits on display are unique aircraft from the page...
2022 Dodge Durango Mopar Is a Tribute to the Biggest Name in Muscle Car Performance
1 Nov 2021, 16:17 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Some muscle car fans swear by the phrase "Mopar or no car." If you're one of these people, well, we just found you your new favorite SUV. Sure the Durango Hellcat is a world-contending beast of a family hauler, but the new 2022 Duran...
Here’s All That Remains After You Drop Nukes on a Fighter Jet
1 Nov 2021, 15:37 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We'd like to believe that every prototype military aircraft goes on to have a long and successful career. But especially in the early days of the Cold War, it simply didn't work out this way. But when a fighter jet doesn't cut it for...
Spotlight USA: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Is an Aviation Geek’s Dream Come True
30 Oct 2021, 21:34 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Last time on Spotlight USA, we showed you the crown jewel of petrolhead activities in New York City, the USS Intrepid Air, and Space Museum. That museum had some genuinely fantastic aircraft on display, but some die-hard enthusiasts strive for some...
Arid Riyadh Desert Plays Host to Two Dutch Zenvo TSR-S Psyco-Supercars
28 Oct 2021, 17:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Danish hypercar manufacturer Zenvo first came to most people's attention when Jeremy Clarkson hooned their flagship ST1 around the Top Gear test track. To put it bluntly, it's a miracle the car made it back to Denmark in one piece (th...
All-New Black Badge Rolls-Royce Ghost Is a Super Villain's Wet Dream
28 Oct 2021, 13:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You wouldn’t expect Rolls-Royce of all brands to have any need for a high-end trim package. Knowing what kind of machines they tend to roll out of the factory on a regular basis, that seems unnecessary. Well, you’d be wrong on that fron...
This Romanian Automaker Could Do Great in America, If Not for One Massive Problem
28 Oct 2021, 13:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Sometimes, it feels like U.S. automakers would rather go bankrupt than admit they either have no idea what their consumers want in a car, or just don’t care. Their near blanket refusal to build a small, affordable, and reliable family car tha...
This Weapon Was Too Bonkers for the U.S. Air Force, Gets Second Life in War Thunder
28 Oct 2021, 11:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The U.S. military has a knack for building terrifying superweapons. For instance, they once tested a nuclear bomb so powerful, it just about blasted the island it was tested on back into the sea which spawned it. But not every death machine drawn u...
The Second-Gen Acura MDX is an Unappreciated Classic, Here’s Why
28 Oct 2021, 08:28 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / By raw sales figures alone, the late 2000’s Lexus RX Crossover will likely be looked upon more favorably than its rival from Acura and their MDX. Believe us when we tell you, raw sales data doesn’t even tell half the story between these...
Acura’s Dimly Lit Type S Lineup Teaser Has Us Begging for More
28 Oct 2021, 05:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's standard practice for automakers to reveal their cars in small increments these days. The latest showcasing of Acura's newest additions to their Type S performance brand shows just enough to entice us but not enough to satisfy. Dimly...
Do You Have the Stones To Launch This COPO Camaro Drag Car? Well, It’s for Sale
27 Oct 2021, 19:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It’d be a bit of a misnomer to call the 2019 Chevrolet COPO Camaro a “car” in the traditional sense. A normal car could, for example, doesn’t have an enormous roll cage fitted where the back seat should be, nor does it have ...
City Delivery Vans Are a Nuisance, Mercedes-Benz Now Has a Solution
27 Oct 2021, 17:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you live in a big city, it doesn’t matter which, be it London, New York, Tokyo, or Bucharest, delivery vans are essentially accepted as necessary evils. Great beasts of burden on society that at best make your Amazon packages appear before...
The 2022 Toyota Sequoia Is Here With Options and New Trims Galore
27 Oct 2021, 14:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The full-size SUV market is so overly saturated with options that it’d even make car enthusiasts scratch their heads in confusion. With so many choices to pick from, one comfort we can all take solace in is that you could always default to To...
The New Bronco Launch Was an Epic Fail, This '03 Discovery Could Hold You Over for Now
27 Oct 2021, 05:15 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Well, wouldn’t you know, the launch of the new Ford Bronco was an unmitigated disaster. As thousands of models sat unsold waiting for quality inspections for their dodgy roof arrangements and thousands more angrily wait for their delivery, th...
Genius Youtuber Turns '86 Box Chevy Into Badass Hot Rod That Could Steal Your Girlfriend
27 Oct 2021, 05:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If there’s one thing we love more than anything about custom cars, it’s when someone has the passion and the skills to turn a car most people write off as ugly or un-cool and turn it into something oozing with machismo. To some, the 198...
Bentley Hires Largest Group of New Apprentices in Company History, Fancy Giving a Resume?
27 Oct 2021, 05:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Landing a job with a world-renowned luxury vehicle manufacturer sounds like a pipe dream to most people. One would think anyone lucky enough to land a gig of that caliber would hold onto it until they physically couldn’t walk through the offi...
1973 Oldsmobile 88 Royal Makes Less Than Zero Sense in the Modern World, Still for Sale
26 Oct 2021, 19:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The standards by which Americans define what constitutes a luxury car have changed quite a bit over the last half-century. Want living proof of that notion? Look no further than this 1973 Oldsmobile 88 Royale. A design so outdated even when it was ...
Lockheed-Martin Inks $14 Billion Deal to Produce F-16 Fighter Jets for Foreign Markets
26 Oct 2021, 19:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The F-16 Fighting Falcon is one of the greatest American military success stories. Almost 50 years after its first flight back in 1974, the F-16 still attracts the attention of domestic and foreign militaries across the globe. On October 25th,2021,...
92 Dodge Ram Cummins Avoided Rusting into Oblivion, for Sale Via Doug DeMuro's Website
26 Oct 2021, 19:09 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A short while ago, we showcased to you a Cummins Diesel swapped 1941 Dodge Powerwagon restomod that sold for a whopping quarter-million dollars. The mint condition 1992 Dodge Ram 5.8 Cummins we have for you today probably won’t fetch quite th...