Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Truck News
Best Of BangShift: The Twisted Tale of the Great American Truck Racing Series
Our quest for answers regarding a long-forgotten race series that featured massive big-rig trucks on asphalt and dirt ovals started with a thread on the Bangshift.com forum section. One of our...
Want A Real Ex-Military HMMWV? Defense Logistics Agency Gearing Up To Auction Off Up To 4,000 Of Them!
In many minds (mine included), the only real Hummer is the original, the large-by-huge and unapologetically American version, the one that was sold to civilians as the Hummer H1 and the military got...
Evel Knievel’s “Scramble Van” trailer resurfaces in Worcester, Massachusetts
For the better part of the last three decades, at the corner of Winter and Water Streets in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, there was a single-axle trailer parked in a fenced-in lot. If you...
Man In Australia Arrested For Driving Wingless Plane To Bar – This Could Be Our Favorite News Story Ever
As we have all learned over the last 6 years (our birthday is tomorrow!) at BangShift, fact is truly stranger than fiction. This news story from Australia certainly keeps that line of thought alive...
Is This Fiat Sport Coupe-Ute Concept Really An Upcoming Jeep In Disguise?
What you are looking at is the rendering for the Fiat FCC4 (Fiat Concept Car 4) that was unveiled at the Sao Paulo Auto Show in Brazil. The official statement on what this chimera is supposed to be...
Man Sized Job: Four Rigs Moving Half Million Pound, 200ft Long Tower Through Oklahoma – 100% BangShift Approved Heavy Hauling (Video)
As you read this, four beefy Kenworth rigs are working in teams of two (two pushing, two pulling) to move a massive 186ft, 535,000lb demethanizing tower through Oklahoma to its final resting spot in...
Stay Out Of The Blue Water: Tanker Truck Spills Portable Toilet Water All Over Interstate After Rolling Over
A tanker truck driver in California is probably reconsidering his career choice after an accident left his truck rolled over in the middle of the highway in a lake of blue portable toilet water....
Just How Light Is The New Aluminum F-150? Let’s Take A Look…
Ford has been all over the idea of lightening up the F-series lineup lately, and we wondered just how much lighter the truck would be compared to it’s rivals. While the idea of constructing the...
Someone’s Gonna Get Fired! Four New Chevrolet Trucks Involved In A Four-Car Wreck On The Way To An Unveiling
I don’t think “my bad” is gonna cover this one. Chevrolet recently invited dealers to come to the Wentzville, Missouri assembly plant so that they could take one of the first 65...
Friday Excuse To Go Home Early And Drink, Part 1: Jeep Guys, You Might Wanna Sit Down…
If there is one vehicle in the 50-and-older club that has stuck to it’s roots the best, it is (arguably) the Jeep. Be it CJ, YJ, TJ, Wrangler, Scrambler, Jeepster, whatever, the basic idea...
Ram Bumping Up Production Of Half-Ton Diesels Due To Demand
The Ram 1500 EcoDiesel has been selling better than expected. How much better? The first batch of trucks, all 8,000 of them, sold out in three days. Not too surprising since the idea of a...
The War Of The Big Trucks Continues: Ford Agrees To Test Using SAE Standard And Their Own, And Will Quit Taking Things Out Of The Trucks
The war of words between Ford and everyone else, especially Ram, over truck towing capabilities and ratings continues. Ford is going to test their Super Duty line to the SAE J2807 rating, the one...
Ram Trucks Will Remain Steel Through 2020. Will This Help Or Hurt Them?
The truck wars are just as nasty as the power wars for the manufacturers right now. Either you can out-tow the other or you can be the most economical, either way you can win. Ford produced their...
Toyota Releases Brand New Land Cruiser 70…Only In Japan. Who Knew Toyota Was Into Trolling Off-Road Enthusiasts?
We never got the Toyota Land Cruiser 70 series in the United States, and it’s a damn shame. Instead we got the Land Cruiser 60 series, which for all intents and purposes, was squarely aimed at...