Category Archive: BangShift News, CRASH & BURN
Best Of BS 2015: We’d Ask For The Dashcam Footage From This Truck Vs. Giant Sawblade Accident, But All We’d Hear Is Screaming
Dec 26, 2015Bryan McTaggart4
It’s not photoshop. That is a big-ass saw blade jammed two feet deep into the nose of a JMC truck in China. Just when you thought Russia had the market cornered on strange automobile accidents,...
This Is What Happens When You Let Idiots Tow Stuff! Scary Entertainment
Dec 18, 2015Chad Reynolds7
After my rant the other day about people towing stuff wrong and not knowing how to back up, I got an email from BangShifter extraordinaire Greg Rourke who said he had something good and entertaining...
Another Day, Another Video Of A Crash Involving Someone Showing Off At A Car Show. DON’T BE THAT GUY!
Dec 02, 2015Bryan McTaggart18
It’s happened again. Some dolt in a car that is probably four times the vehicle they should ever need was filmed making an ass of himself while endangering not only himself, but everyone around...
Sliding Sideways Is Only The Start To This 3000 Horsepower Corvette’s Bad Day – This Thing Really Can Fly!
Nov 24, 2015Bryan McTaggart7
3000 horsepower. That isn’t a number meant for a car, it’s meant more for a healthy-sized vessel. Yet here we have a C6 Corvette packing that insane figure running the airstrip at the...
Caption This: Apparently “Thou Shalt Not Buy A 4WD With No Intention Of Using It Properly” Isn’t Mentioned Anywhere In That Book…
Nov 22, 2015Bryan McTaggart7
If there is anything that will make you question whether or not you have pissed off an entity much higher than yourself, a well-aimed lightning strike ought to do it. On the average, your odds of...
Carnage Video: Watch This Hellcat Challenger Perform A Magic Trick – It Will Turn It’s Driveshaft Into Dust!
Nov 20, 2015Bryan McTaggart5
FCA did well to put over seven hundred horsepower into a production car and to keep everything together well enough that they could offer up a warranty. That being said, once gearheads started to...
Crash And Burn: This 8-Second Honda Pile-Drives The Barrier Before Doing A Barrel Roll And Landing On It’s Roof!
Nov 10, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
At about 150 miles an hour, aerodynamic forces go from being an afterthought to being a concern for any automobile driver. Lift is a genuine concern, and any air that can get underneath a car can...
The Sloppy Mechanics Give A Buick Regal GS A Turbo, A Buttload Of Nitrous And A Viking Funeral In One Shot!
Nov 07, 2015Bryan McTaggart3
In their annual tradition of giving a junkyard-bound beater the ultimate sendoff, the Sloppy Mechanics turned their tools onto a car that coincidentally enough, has a relevant feature for BangShift:...
Watch This Nitroused 5.0 Mustang’s Rear Tire Explode On The Dyno – This Is Why You Don’t Get Too Close!
Oct 21, 2015Bryan McTaggart13
We have preached it over and over again for years now. We have shown countless videos of what can happen, and we’ve even had it happen to us. Putting a car on the dyno can be a good...
Watch As This Nissan GT-R’s Hood Blows Off At Over 180 Miles An Hour!
Oct 18, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Watch As This Nissan GT-R’s Hood Blows Off At Over 180 Miles An Hour!
At about 150 miles an hour, aerodynamics become an integral part of racing rather than an secondary consideration. Downforce becomes very real (and your best friend) and anything that can act like an...
Three Airbags, One Wheel, One Civic, And A Lot Of Unused Brain Cells Resulted In This Video
Sep 30, 2015Bryan McTaggart2
Honestly, we get stupid entertainment. For the long-termers here who remember the CarJunkieTV days, all you have to say is “BrakeKleen” to conjure up images of Freiberger catching Chad on...
Here’s One Of The Few Ways BangShift Will Feature A Kia Van: When It’s Dropped From A Crane!
Sep 26, 2015Bryan McTaggart2
A Kia Sedona on BangShift. “Wow…you guys are reaching a new low today,” you’re probably muttering at your computer. And you’re right for the most part. Called the Grand...
A Polaris On Nitrous And A Bounty Hill Called “Blue Holler”…Any Guesses On What Happens Next?
Sep 26, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on A Polaris On Nitrous And A Bounty Hill Called “Blue Holler”…Any Guesses On What Happens Next?
Have you ever seen the episode of The Simpsons, where Homer finds himself halfway across Springfield Gorge before falling like Wile E. Coyote, bouncing off of every possible rock ledge before hitting...
Crash And Burn: Pedro Piquet’s Barrel-Rolling Brazilian Porsche GT3 Cup Wreck
Sep 22, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
Seventeen-year-old Pedro Piquet is a bit bruised and battered, but isn’t much worse for the wear after this extremely violent airborne crash during the first lap of the second race of the...





