Category Archive: Apex Sideways, Apex Video, BangShift APEX

Labor Day Racing Footage: Irish Drifting? Yeah, It’s Real And It’s Good!

When I went to Ireland two years ago, to say that I was disappointed with the automotive culture I saw around would be an understatement. Nothing I was used to, none of the forbidden fruit minus one...

Morning Symphony: An R33 Nissan Skyline Tearing Around A Mountain Pass

Blame Gran Turismo for my fascination with this car. The Nissan Skyline is the ultimate “forbidden fruit” car from Japan for me, and it’s all due to that damn game. It was the car...

Morning Symphony: Listen To These BMW M3s Rip Up A Tight Drift Course!

For this morning’s aural treat, we are going straight to the sharp howl of the E36 series BMW M3’s 3.2L inline-six. If you want to see what true brand loyalty looks like, ask a BMW fan...

Watch Kyle Busch Go Drifting At Kentucky Speedway During A Practice Run!

I make no bones about it: I’m not the biggest NASCAR fan out there. Roundy-round racing bores me if I’m not behind the wheel. But let it be known, I am in constant awe of what every...

Classic YouTube: Vaughn Gittin, Jr.’s WFO Drifting At Road America In 2010

Many writers like to wax poetic about drifting. They liken it to driving art: it’s completely unnecessary, but there is a certain skill to it that not everybody has, and you can’t deny...

Is Dare To Be Different Dead In Pro Touring?

I don’t care how many ways you build a Camaro, Mustang, Corvette, C10, Challenger, or whatever, they are still just what they started out as. No matter how much work you put into them, and how...

Check This Thing Out: The Nocturnal Motorworks Coyote! Nissan Power, 1,001 Pounds, And Tail-Happy!

We could tell you who we could blame for the recent run of tube-frame, engine-seats-rollbar cars that have started popping up like weeds around the country, but the story of the Vette-Kart is on...

Watch as Ken Block and Andreas Bakkerud Try Out Their New Ford Focus RS RX Race Cars

There is nothing like the first time behind the wheel of a new car, and for Hoonigan Racing Division’s Ken Block and Andreas Bakkerud, it had to be extra special, because it represented the...

Morning Symphony: Vaughn Gittin, Jr.’s New Drift-Spec RTR Mustang!

The dark-colored Mustang with the lime-green accents and the V8 screaming to high heaven can be the property of only Vaughn Gittin, Jr. The accomplished drifter has wheeled Ford Mustangs since 2005...

CarThrottle Sends In The Drift Van To Prank Chris Forsberg For April Fools’ Day!

Yeah, we know that April Fools’ Day was yesterday…we saw all of the posts, from Chad’s beard packing up, giving us the finger and bailing out on it’s own in the movie biz...

Morning Symphony: Round One Of Lone Star Drift’s 2016 Season!

You know what drifting is all about…the skills of a driver that is sticking a toe or two over the line of car control while laughing about it all. Slip angles, power application, steering...

HERETIC! This Ford Falcon XY Drifter Is Rough, Ready, And Powered By…You Guessed It…

To some people, there are certain cars you just don’t screw with. Mopar E-bodies need to have a Pistol Grip and either a 340 Six-Pack or a big-block. Mustang guys cling to Ford small-block...

Morning Symphony: This Drifting BMW M3 Is A Concert Of Wailing Six Cylinder Power And Machine-Gun Anti-Lag!

There are only so many Nissan S-chassis cars out there for drifters to get their hands on. Sooner or later, other body styles had to be converted, and one of the more popular “other” cars...

Take A Look Behind The Scenes Of Gymkhana Eight Through The Lens Of Larry Chen!

It is one thing to have a GoPro or a movie-quality camera focusing on the driving antics of Ken Block…it’s hard to miss the action when it’s being recorded. But taking still shots...