Benny Kirk
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This Imported Brazilian Puma GT Is a Rare Animal in the States
11 Sep 2021, 06:17 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you still think the only cars American enthusiasts like to drive are big muscle and SUVs with gargantuan engines to match, no one is likely to criticize you. In truth though, one thing American gearheads like almost as much as muscle cars are qu...
Builders of the Dream Chaser Space Shuttle Ink Lucrative Deal With U.S Army
10 Sep 2021, 19:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Building spaceships is expensive work. It sounds like the most obvious thing in the world, but it means that sometimes, the companies that build them have to find other ways to generate revenue. For the Sierra Nevada Corporation, makers of Drea...
More Than 1,000 Classic Cars Going on the Auction Block in Las Vegas
10 Sep 2021, 18:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There are not many things that can get a petrolhead's heart pumping quite like a good classic car auction. There are a number of different places and companies you can turn to for such events, and the next big one takes place next month in Las...
Bentley Reveals More Info on Go to Zero Plan That Promises Carbon Neutrality by 2030
10 Sep 2021, 15:42 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It takes a global event of the utmost importance to make a world-renowned luxury brand like Bentley change anything about the way they build their cars, and global climate change definitely fits into that category. On the morning of September 10...
Audi Provides Training for 700 Students, Offers Full Time Job on Completion
10 Sep 2021, 13:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It’d be the lifelong dream of any car enthusiast to be trained in a relevant automotive field by their favorite manufacturer. This is exactly what’s happening to a fortunate group of 694 vocational trainees and 42 co-op education studen...
This Imported Ex-Soviet MIG-29 Is Ready to Take to the Skies of America
10 Sep 2021, 07:42 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / No one’s quite sure just what kind of lunatic needs an ex-Soviet twin-engine jet fighter in their garage right this second. Surely though, these people do exist and from the looks of things, they have pockets as deep as a mine shaft. The M...
General Electric Starts Testing Second Adaptive Cycle Engine
9 Sep 2021, 19:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The paper trail for the budget of the F-35 Lightning II jet fighter is about to get a little bit longer. American defense contractor General Electric announced they’ve built a second prototype of the new XA100 adaptive cycle turbojet engine f...
This Special Edition London Black Cab Spent Its Whole Life in Florida
9 Sep 2021, 19:09 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The London Black cabs are a symbol of English culture that permeates around the world. That said, not every one of them was destined to roam the streets of the British capital. Every once in a while, a handful find their way onto the streets of...
Ford Doubles Down on Home Delivery, Adds Tiers to FordPass Loyalty Program
9 Sep 2021, 15:59 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / At the height of the health crisis last year, American automakers like Ford were hard at work producing ventilators for hospitals in need, while their sales model shifted to an at-home delivery service. With the crisis still a very real danger, For...
Eight of James Bond's Most Famous Cars Parked Together in America for the First Time
9 Sep 2021, 15:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you thought the privilege of seeing your favorite James Bond vehicle was reserved for people in Bond’s native England, the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is ready to prove you wrong. Indeed, the largest gathering of Bond veh...
Here's Your Chance to Race Honda's Best Drivers in Forza Motorsport 7
9 Sep 2021, 14:06 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Honda’s Performance Development team is joining forces with Xbox Game Studio’s Forza Motorsport 7 during the Forza Rivals Challenge throughout the month of September, and you're in for a lot of fun. This month-long event is giv...
New Surround View Camera System From Garmin Will Make Yachting Even More Leisurely
8 Sep 2021, 19:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Garmin is one of the leading names in the vehicle guidance and navigation systems in the industry. It's helped to bring top notch equipment to sailors and pilots, and is the recipient of awards like manufacturer of the year by the National Mar...
Mystery Automaker to Get Millions Worth of German-Made Parts for EVs and Hybrids
8 Sep 2021, 19:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It’s not often news about something as mundane as electric and hybrid drive cooling pumps generated so much mystery. That's what German auto-tech firm Rheinmetall created with its latest announcement, saying it had agreed to a substantia...
This 1993 Geo Metro Convertible May Be the Most Affordable Drop-Top Around
8 Sep 2021, 19:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A few misconceptions about buying a used car have some people feeling a bit down in the dumps these days. The most pervasive of these is the notion that there just aren’t any good, interesting used cars at an affordable price anymore. If...
This Century-Old Cummins Turbo Dually Rat Rod Is A Beautiful Disaster
8 Sep 2021, 15:17 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As far as any of us are aware, the love affair between Dodge vehicles and Cummins diesel engines didn’t begin until at least the late 80s. Don’t tell any of that to the exceptionally talented and mildly bonkers set of folks who fashione...
You Can Have This Vintage Douglas DC3 Instead of a Private Jet
8 Sep 2021, 12:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A fair few aviation enthusiasts claim that the golden age of flight was not in the modern-day, but rather almost 70 years ago. Only after taking a look at a vintage Douglas DC3 airliner in the flesh does this notion start to make sense in earnest. ...
This Classic Datsun 720 King Cab Is In Better Shape Than Trucks 30 Years Younger
8 Sep 2021, 11:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you want the long and short answer as to why Americans never got Japanese light-duty trucks in the 80s and 90s, we have two words for you: chicken tax. Yes, that wonderful little devil of a law designed to tax imported potato starch somehow l...
2022 KTM 450 SMR Could Be the Next Darling of the Supermoto Scene
8 Sep 2021, 06:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Austrians are not the first nation you think of when it comes to quality-built performance vehicles, but KTM is one of those companies bringing the fight to larger manufacturers, many of them operating right across the border in Germany. Th...
This Classic Mercedes-Benz 190SL Has More Class Than Any Modern Merc
7 Sep 2021, 18:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / They say there aren’t many machines in the history of the world that were built at the extreme level of quality as vIntage Mercedes-Benz cars, but the 1963 190SL sure makes the list. So when one U.S spec model was uncovered and put up for...
Honda's New TrailSport Package Is Ready to Make Them a Legit 4x4 Contender
7 Sep 2021, 14:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Honda light trucks consistently rank among the highest customer satisfaction numbers across the board. One place however that they may have been behind the ball somewhat is in their off-roading capability. In this category, brands like Land Rove...