Category Archive: Apex Sideways, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
Flying Bricks! Enjoy A Half-Hour Of All-Volvo Rally Footage – Good, Bad And Ugly!
Jul 29, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Volvos are the cars of safety, and have been for decades. They aren’t performance darlings out of the box, but are instead meant to be stronger and safer than the truck that carried them to the...
The Mallet Performance Widebody Colorado Is A 700hp, Blown, Small Truck From Hell
Jul 28, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on The Mallet Performance Widebody Colorado Is A 700hp, Blown, Small Truck From Hell
(By Tom Lohnes) – The new 800 horsepower Yenko-tuned Chevy Silverado 1500 is awesome with its supercharged V8 and 8-speed automatic, as well as it’s 3.8-second 0-60 time. But what if you...
What Depreciation? This BMW 6-Series Is One Evil-Sounding Rally Monster!
Jul 02, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on What Depreciation? This BMW 6-Series Is One Evil-Sounding Rally Monster!
I actually had to go research when the “new” BMW 6-series coupes were first produced: 2004. That means that at the oldest, this particular mud-flinging example is sixteen years old. Which...
Watching This Dodge Dakota R/T Drifting Around Rockford Speedway Is Having An Absolute Blast
Jul 02, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
The 1998-2003 Dodge Dakota R/T is a riot in disguise. Shoving the 250hp/345tq 360 into the Dakota and backing up the powertrain with a 9.25″ rear packing 3.92 gears, the Dakota surprised those...
Drift Beretta: How Chevy’s Front-Drive Two-Door Got Blended With A Camaro To Create This Monster!
Jun 16, 2020Bryan McTaggart4
YouTube is such a grab-bag of whatever. Some days all you see is a bunch of teenagers in 1990s Mustangs doing donuts behind a grocery store before they get busted by the cops, and sometimes you get...
Historical Footage: Henri Toivonen Running The RAC Rally In A Talbot Sunbeam
May 05, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Henri Toivonen’s fame may lie as the man whose death signaled the death of Group B Rally when his Lancia Delta plunged over the side of a cliff at Corsica in 1986, but it wasn’t due to...
Wrecking Machine: A Guy Named Ben Chen Wrecked A Rare Gemballa GT And A Load Of Other Cars On A NYC Street
Apr 15, 2020Brian Lohnes8
(By Tom Lohnes) – Ben Chen, the co-founder of the famed gold-rush supercar rally, has done it again. After crashing one of the first Mclaren MP4-12Cs in the United states, a one-of-three...
Repaving The Track: Drifting At The Freedom Factory With Pros!
Mar 07, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
Cleetus and crew are making progress on bringing the Freedom Factory track to life. Considering that it’s only been a couple of months since they made the announcement and started work, it...
Snow-Khana: The Wildest Mark III Supra We’ve Ever Seen!
Mar 03, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Snow-Khana: The Wildest Mark III Supra We’ve Ever Seen!
Everbody praises the Mark IV Toyota Supra as the best of the breed. I disagree. I prefer the boxy, angular Mark III version more. It’s a personal preference issue, but the late 1980s sport...
Tennessee Drift Day 2020 Gallery: Wearing That Groove Back Into The Track!
Feb 23, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Tennessee Drift Day 2020 Gallery: Wearing That Groove Back Into The Track!
As I watched the trailers and cars roll into Beech Bend on a quickly warming Saturday morning, a thought occurred to me: this is just like throwing bird seed in the driveway. When I was younger, I...
Drifty Dozen: The Finale Of The 2020 Drift Week At The Hoonigan Burnyard
Feb 12, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Drifty Dozen: The Finale Of The 2020 Drift Week At The Hoonigan Burnyard
To this day, we still see a ton of negativity regarding drifting. I’m not here to change anybody’s mind, but there is no way that I’m going to ignore anything that involves a ton of...
Best of 2019: Beater Heaven! Listen To This Lincoln LS Drift The Day Away At King Of The Heap!
Jan 01, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
It is easy to dismiss a race of $1,000 beaters as nothing more than crapcans toddling around a racetrack sometimes. Sure, it’s something fun to do during the off-season, but just how exciting...
From Weak To Wicked: A Young Gun Building A V8 Mazda Drift Truck From Scratch!
Nov 10, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on From Weak To Wicked: A Young Gun Building A V8 Mazda Drift Truck From Scratch!
If you are worried about young automotive enthusiasts or, more precisely, the abilities and will of the young automotive enthusiast, don’t. Just come to terms with the fact that they might not...
Unhinged: Drifting In Iraq And Why It’s Important
Oct 25, 2019Bryan McTaggart1
I have a question for you: can you identify anything about the country of Iraq that doesn’t involve any tie to a war? Think back twenty, thirty, forty years. It is difficult, isn’t it?...