Category Archive: Apex Sideways, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
It’s A Match Made In Drifting Heaven: A $350,000 Lexus LFA With A NASCAR TRD V8
The Lexus LFA is a strange beast of a car, because it’s both a technological demonstration and a completely unnecessary supercar that didn’t sell well. Anybody who has ever heard the 4.8L...
This Escort Goes For A Very Violent Crash At The 2014 Urjalan Society Competiton Rally
Jarkko Lankinen and Kari Salminen probably bought their roll cage builder a significant amount of whatever the hell they wanted after this particularly brutal crash at the 2014 Urjalan Rally in...
FY Racing’s Sno*Drift Video Captures A Great Look At Life Behind The Scenes For A Rally Team
Going behind the scenes of a racing team is the only way to get the entire story of what it takes to get man and machine to glory, and there are far more players that anyone would normally realize....
Ford Performance’s Latest Video Puts Vaughn Gitten, Jr. On Ice With His New RTR Competition Mustang
Y’know, something has been missing here on BangShift for the last few months: Ice racing. Yes, we’ve covered tons of snow-based sports, including Red Bull Frozen Rush this year. Yes,...
OK, Now You’re Just Showing Off: BMW’s Self-Drifting Car Versus A Real Drifter
Autonomous technology has been making leaps within the last year or two, and we’ve seen the results when the car is allowed to run to the limits of it’s grip (think the RS7 that Audi sent...
What Do You Do When Your Subaru Impreza Rally Car Slides Back-End-First Into A Pole? Continue On! [VIDEO]
You see that flash of orange and black in the swirling snow in the picture above? That’s Leo Urlichich driving, and Carl Williamson sitting beside him along for the ride during the 2012 Rally...
Thierry Neuville Sets A New Jump Record At Rally Sweden: Over 144 Feet Off Of Colin’s Crest!
This year’s Rally Sweden was filled with a lot of snow-filled failure, but one shining star flew high above the rest, literally: Thierry Neuville launched his Hyundai i20 44 meters (144.3 feet)...
What’s The Best Way To Sell Shoes? How About An 550 HP V8-Swapped Toyota Minivan?
This is one of those “way out of left field” things we tend to find in the odd corners of the Internet that just makes us smile. Famous Footwear has debuted their “Momkhana”...
Mountain Screamer: Watch Yves Faber Blast Up A Hillclimb In One Nasty Fox Mustang!
While I’m not in the same snow-induced landscape that Lohnes is currently stuck in (and I’m very, very grateful for that), the weather around BangShift Mid-West isn’t exactly...
Ken Block Takes On The 2017 Ford Focus RS – THIS Is How You Introduce A New Vehicle!
Say you’re in a position of power within Ford Performance. You’re still riding high after the coup d’etat that you just pulled off at the North American International Auto Show,...
What’s It Like To Be Thrown Into A Strange Racing Series? Roadracer Mike Musto Gets His First Taste Of Drifting
A day after I took our project Chrysler 300C to the NCM Motorsport Park’s road course, I was having a chat with a friend of mine who shares the whole automotive addiction thing, explaining the...
Somebody Built A RWD, Drifting Toyota Prius – Here It Is In Action
It actually happened. An enterprising individual converted a Toyota Prius to rear-wheel-drive and got the thing to go sideways, do donuts, and fry the rear tires. And surprisingly, they did it...
Gold Standard Video: Peugeot’s “Climb Dance”, With Ari Vatanen On Pikes Peak
It is five minutes of driving perfection, pure and simple. Finnish rally racing master Ari Vatanen manhandled a Peugeot 405 Turbo 16 GR rally car up Pikes Peak in in 1988 to set a new record, and...
