Category Archive: BangShift News, CHEVY
Tofurkey: Chevrolet’s EN-V 2.0 Electric Car To Be Used In Chinese Car-Sharing Experiment
Students of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, meet the vehicle of choice for your new car-sharing ride program. The Chevrolet EN-V 2.0 was selected to be the vehicle of choice for the...
Random Car Review: The 1984 Chevrolet Caprice “Corvette Chaser” Wagon
Developmental mules are a necessary evil in the automotive engineering world. You want to get real-world data on the parts and systems, but either you take out the new car which you are trying to...
Get ‘Em While You Still Can: GM Will Not Produce The SS After 2017, Won’t Make A RHD Camaro For Aussies
GM has a notorious pattern: the second it actually gets a product right (or at least on the right track) the first thing it does is pull the plug on the model. There are plenty of good examples: the...
Would You Rather, The Big 1980’s Coupe Edition!
While there are many who would disagree, the mainstay of hot rods, street machines, muscle cars and projects in the United States are two-doors. The four door body style puts off an air of...
Chevrolet Offers Manchester United Players Free Use Of Corvettes and Camaros, Players Say “No, Thanks” And Hop Into Their Range Rovers
Chevrolet is the current sponsor of Manchester United, Britain’s best known soccer club…er, football club. As the main sponsor, Chevrolet pays Manchester United £47 million per season...
Monday Shopper: This 460hp Impala SS Crossed The Block At Mecum Chicago For $5,000
Mecum Auctions’ Chicago auction just wrapped up this Saturday, and prices reflect a crowd that was ready to buy. A 1986 Monte Carlo SS went for $10,500. A stock 1984 Trans Am went for $14,000....
Thief Steals Camaro Z/28 From Seattle-Area Dealership In A “Gone In 60 Seconds” Copycat Move
The opening scene of the 2000 remake of Gone in 60 Seconds: Kip Raines has to steal a Porsche. When he finds that the machine is the dealership’s floor eye-candy, he breaks into the...
Two New Members To The Under 3-Second 0-60 Club: Charger Hellcat And Corvette Z06
Under three seconds to 0-60mph. That isn’t accelerating, that’s the rough equivalent of a higher being flicking the car you just so happen to be sitting in with his finger. That’s...
We Want It: This Weathered Impala SS Is Sleeper Perfection!
Our buddy Jeff Lee was either trolling us or was just showing off sending us pictures for this particular Impala SS. The first picture showed the big black Chevy sitting in the driveway looking like...
Recall Number…We’ve Lost Count: Impalas and Cadillacs Recalled For Brakes That Can Catch Fire
It’s almost like Groundhog Day: Wake up, check news, report on another GM recall. This time it’s one of the newer GM platforms, the Epsilon-platformed Chevrolet Impala and Cadillac XTS...
Chevrolet Issues “Stop Sales” Orders For C7 Corvette
This wasn’t what Chevrolet needed. GM put out two separate “stop sales” orders on C7 Corvettes to fix two issues that popped up. The first one is for an improperly-installed...
The WTF? Files: Somebody Turned A Chevrolet SSR Into A Reptile
It’s hard to like the Chevy SSR. It’s a cynical mashup of a 1950 Chevy pickup, an El Camino, a Corvette, a TrailBlazer, and a Chrysler Sebring convertible: Individually, they were all...
Car Feature: Bob Johnson’s ’55 Chevy – The 202mph Shoebox!
(Editor’s note: This car feature on one of our favorite cars we have ever seen on the salt, Bob Johnson’s incredible 1955 Chevy. After this story was written Bob ended up running 202 in...
The 1980 Chevy Malibu M-80: Proof That Performance Wasn’t Dead, Just On An Iron Lung
1980 could be considered the low point in the American automotive arena. Horsepower figures were at their lowest, most of the big blocks were dead, with the remaining ones hiding in heavy-duty trucks...