THE VAULT: Exploring Hot Rod & Racing HISTORY Underneath the Petersen Museum. You Gotta See This!

Our friend Tommy Lee Byrd recently got the chance to visit the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, and the very special section, underneath this HUGE space that is called The Vault. It’s...

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BANGshift.com Would Like To Wish All Of You A Happy And Safe Independence Day! We Hope You Enjoy The Celebration This 4th of July!

On behalf of myself, all our great BANGshift.com contributors, and all our families, BANGshift.com would like to wish you all a happy, healthy, and safe Independence Day. Happy Birthday to the United...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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The State of American Performance: Corvette ZR1X vs. Mustang GTD vs. Lucid Sapphire vs. Czinger 21C on the Road and the Track.

Horsepower has never been easier to make, more readily available, or more usable than it is in 2026. And while car prices have climbed, and I certainly can’t afford any of these machines here,...

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Extended Highlights from the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa | GT World Challenge powered by AWS 2026

We share all kinds of live racing action from the 24 Hours of SPA this weekend, but if you missed any of that we’ve got great highlight video below that shows the best racing action from the...

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IMSA 6-Hours of Watkins Glen Endurance Racing Highlight Video Is Right Here! Only The Best Racing Action!

Here we go again! The 2026 IMSA Racing season is in full swing and this weekend the series was visiting Watkins Glen in New York which is one of the most famous race tracks in the country! There was...

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This CTS-V Coupe Review From Consumer Reports Isn’t The Yawn Fest You Expect – They Just Drift It!

The only way I ever thought I’d put a Consumer Reports video on BangShift is if it involved a late-model vehicle that was prone to random and catastrophic explosions or was recalled to within...

Behind The Scenes Video: Great Footage From The Making Of The Pennzoil Hellcat Tires Shredding Drift Film

We recently got tipped off to some cool behind the scenes, “making of” video that shows just how Pennzoil and the crew that made the film pulled off the awesome drifting scenes that we...

Feature: Here’s How A 2015 Hellcat Charger Gets Broken In The BangShift Way – Photos, Video, Smoke!

(Words and photos by Kaleb Kelley) – Everybody has been talking about the Hellcat since it was first announced last year. Everybody is getting to see the car they’ve been drooling over on...

Big News: Auto Meter Acquires Palmer Performance Engineering – New Technology Brought Into Fold

In the ever evolving world of aftermarket performance, new technologies are emerging almost weekly. It is always cool when two innovative companies can hook up and work together to the benefit of...

TCI® AUTO-X GM LS 4L60E Transmission Package Gives Autocross And Road Racers A New Option

Evolution is a cool thing, especially when it comes to the mechanical end of hot rodding. The new TCI® AUTO-X GM LS 4L60E Transmission Package represents some of that evolution and it does so with...

Awesome Video: This Go Pro Footage Shot During The Making Of Fast And Furious 7 Shows The Insanity Of The Car Stunts

Love them or hate them the Fast and Furious series of movies are based around wild cars and have produced some of the highest grossing films of all time. We would run down the list of the other movie...

Classic YouTube: Carl Edwards Shoving Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. Across The Line At Iowa

Would you rather be lucky, or good? If you were in Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.’s shoes at the U.S. Cellular 250 at Iowa in August 2011, you probably walked out of the track that night thinking...

This Four Door 1965 Buick Wildcat Was Saved – But Do You Agree With How? We’d Rock It!

So here’s one of those questions. Is it better to have an old car on the road with a different combo than its manufacturer ever offered or is it just wrong to swap in some stuff that no one...

Total Control Products Adjustable Panhard Bar Is A Great Handling Solution For First Generation Mustangs And Cougars

Rigidity and control are two things that are essential in any good handling car. The car needs to be stiff and tied together to make sure that the suspension is doing its job and the thing...

Somehow Pennzoil Managed To Make One Of The Coolest Hellcat Videos Yet – What Has Gotten Into Those Guys?

There was a time when Pennzoil was a pretty cool brand. They were in all kinds of motorsports and had a good high performance image. For whatever reason, that promotional direction changed and they...

Creepy Car For Sale: 1955 Chevy Bel Air Wagon With Lee Harvey Oswald Ties – Buy It? Crush It? Run Away?

I am not a big ghosts and goblins guy but that doesn’t mean I am completely free of opinions and feelings on the subject. Every personal alarm bell that I have goes off when I see a car like...

Big Trucks, Hot Hatches, And One Last Pro Touring Blast From The Hotchkis Autocross At NMCA West Fontana

Here’s our last salvo of photos from the Hotchkis Autocross that was held at the NMCA West event last weekend in Fontana, California. In it you will see a kind of automotive schizophrenia that...

Top-Tier Shootout: McLaren P1 Vs. Porsche 918 Spyder, One Track, One Driver, And One Missing Ferrari

The McLaren P1, Porsche 918 Spyder and LaFerrari are currently the ultimate end of street-legal production cars. All three sport a combination of gas and electric power, all are expensive enough to...

Next Generation Indy Car Unveiled: Yesterday’s Technology Today And All For Under $1,000!

After years of fans clamoring for IndyCar racing to return to its creative and everyman roots, the series has dropped the curtain on the car that will do just that and allow pretty much anyone, even...