Category Archive: Apex New Products, Apex Racing News, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, BangShift Road Test
The New Z Car Has Been Shown And It Sure Looks Good On Paper – Here’s Our Take
(By Tom Lohnes) – After 12 long years, a new Z car has arrived, and it doesn’t disappoint. Replacing the 370Z, the Z Proto/400Z/Fairlady Z made a giant splash in the car community at its...
Is Toyota Building A Road Legal Le Mans Style Hypercar? It Sure Looks Like It To Us!
(By Tom Lohnes) – It’s no secret right now that Toyota is a dominating racing team. With three consecutive Le Mans wins they are tearing up the track. Wildly with the new Hypercar they’re...
Million Dollar Hauler: Meet The Rolls Royce Silver Spectre…All $1,250,000 Of 700hp Shooting Brake
(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you ever yearn for a 2-door wagon but don’t want to be a peasant and buy a $280,000 Ferrari GTC4 Lusso? Well, Rolls Royce has the car for you, and there’s only 3 of...
Extra Wasabi Please: The Upcoming Acura NSX-R Is A 600hp Throwback To The Future
(By Tom Lohnes) – Is the “normal” $150,000, 573 horsepower, 2.7-second to 60 Honda/Acura NSX not good enough for you? Well, here’s a throwback. A newer version of the Acura NSX-R, along...
Game On: Here’s Our BangShifty Review Of WRC Championship 9 For Xbox, Play Station, and PC – Worth The Dough?
(By Tom Lohnes) – The kind folks at Kylotonn provided a review copy of WRC Championship 9, their biggest racing title and a game I was excited to try out. My excitement was not wrong, because...
2020 Performance Racing Industry Show Has Been Cancelled – Hard But Not Shocking News
Perhaps this isn’t a headline that shocks anyone in the high performance aftermarket or racing world, but it still stings pretty hard nonetheless. Officials with PRI have announced that the...
Porsche’s Punchy Panamera Packs Prodigious Power, Pretty Prolific Price Tag
(By Tom Lohnes) – The new Porsche Panamera is out, and it packs a punch along with a steep price tag. Starting at just over $100,000, the new Panamera is meant to compete with other high-model...
WideBody With Slim Performance? Dodge Now Offering The Widebody Look On Many Challenger Models
(By Tom Lohnes) – The Dodge Challenger widebody has been Dodge’s kind of low impact competitor against the Chevy Camaro 1LE and For Mustang Performance Pack 1 and 2. Although more...
Audi Makes Changes To Performance Lineup – Goodbye R8 and TT, Hello RS6 Avant!
(By Tom Lohnes) – Audi fans listen up, because there is some good (and bad) news coming at you right now. Starting off on the good news the new 600-horsepower, AWD, RS6 Avant station wagon has...
The Yenko Silverado Is The GM 800hp GM Powered Answer To The Ram TRX and Shelby F-150 Super Snake
(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you ever feel like a 707-horsepower Ram Rebel TRX or 770-horsepower Shelby F-150 Super Snake isn’t enough? Well, your local Chevy dealers have you covered with an...
Diabolical Speed: The Latest Car To Break the Cannonball Record Is An Audi S6 Dressed To Look Like A Ford!
(By Tom Lohnes) – The coast to coast Cannonball record has once again been broken, and this time it’s an even higher level of impressive. Basically, two guys had an Audi S6 and a body...
Got A 2020 C8 Corvette Stingray? Be Careful Of The Junk In Your Frunk – Some Cars Being Recalled
(By Tom Lohnes) – The new-for-2020 C8 Corvette has made a name for itself as a supercar killer, even though only the stingray model is available right now. As good as the launch has been, GM...
In Car Video: Ride In The Coolest Car To Compete At The Bathurst 12 Hours, A 700hp LS3 Powered Daytona Coupe! Eats Ferrari Alive
Internationally speaking, everyone loves Bathurst, right? If you’re not sick of Australia’s Mount Panorama Circuit—though I have no idea how anyone could get sick of that circuit—here’s...
