Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Truck News
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...
More News On Payload Ratings: GM Goes For The Mea Culpa, Ford Doesn’t Budge
The saga of payload capacity in the Class 3 truck market continues to be filled with drama. To bring you up to speed, this all started out with Ford and Ram taking shots at each other over who had...
Nissan’s NISMO Juke/Xterra Is The Stuff Nightmares Are Made Of
(Photos courtesy of Twitter/Nissan) The Nissan Xterra is a cool little SUV that has a strong off-roading pedigree. It doesn’t try to be soft and cuddly, but instead was built from the start to...
New Jersey State Assemblyman Submits Bill To Make “Coal Rolling” Illegal After Someone Blasted His Nissan Leaf
If you misbehave in front of the wrong person, they will see to it that your form of fun is forever banished. In New Jersey, State Assemblyman Tim Eustance was driving his Nissan Leaf on the New...
Ford And Ram In War Of Words Over Towing Rating Of Their Heavy Duty Trucks: This One’s Gonna Get Ugly, Folks
Ford, GM and Ram all want you to believe that their heavy-duty model truck is the baddest mother on the planet. It can go anywhere, do anything, has enough power and structure to tow Rosie...
Watching news outlets try to explain “Rolling Coal” is hilarious
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve read the term “rolling coal” more times than I have in the last ten years, and I read a few diesel magazines. The “media” (or more...
SCORE Is Bringing Off-Road Racing to SEMA 2014, Including Night Racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
SCORE International, the off-road racing association associated with Baja and Dakar will have a major display at SEMA 2014, including an outdoor section that incorporates exhibits from numerous...
The Oldest Known Peterbilt Truck In Existence Has Been Restored To Showroom Perfection – 1939 Model 260 Is Awesome
One of the reasons I love old trucks is because the vast majority of them were worked until their tongues were hanging out or they were so absurdly obsolete that they had no value at all and were...
Pikes Peak News: Mike Ryan Crashes Freightliner During Practice
Mike Ryan, the driver of the #777 Freighliner Cascadia racing truck, had a serious incident while practicing for the 2014 Pikes Peak Hill Climb on Thursday. According to witnesses, the Freightliner...
Baja 1000 Qualifying Is Coming To Vegas! Watch Out World, SCORE Trophy Trucks Are Invading SEMA!
The SEMA Show SCORE Baja 1000 Experience is coming to the 2014 SEMA Show In Vegas, and we couldn’t be more excited! We were sworn to secrecy when we heard about this a couple weeks ago, but man...
Baja 500 Qualifying In Truck 100+ MPH Video From Galindo Motorsports, Plus Full Qualifying Results
This video is 6 minutes of off-road bliss. If this video doesn’t make you want to get behind the wheel of an off-road race truck and tear off across the desert for Baja 500 Qualifying, then you...
This Weekend’s Baja 500 Is Full Of Favorites. Check Out The Full Entry List Here.
The SCORE Baja 500 is going on this weekend, and we can’t go. Which sucks. But hopefully some of you will head that way to see yoru favorite off road stars tear it up in Mexico. We just got the...
eBay Find: This 1957 Thames 800 Freightliner Van Is The Only One We Have Ever Seen And Ripe For BangShifting
We love it when we find out about cars and trucks we never knew existed in this country. Take for example this 1957 Thames (English Ford) 800 Freightliner van. We’ve never heard of these let...