Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, XL Videos

Excited For The New Ford Bronco? This Video Of The Prototype Being Tested Is Short, Sweet, and Cool

The buzz surrounding the return of the Ford Bronco is BIG. There have been rumors of the truck coming back for years, all kinds of wacky renderings have shown up, but no one knows for 100% what this...

Finnegan Sends The OG Ramp Truck In For Bodywork! Here’s What Bonneville Salt Can Do To A Squarebody!

I’m about 90% sure that it was Keith Turk who told me over and over to wash the holy hell out of my 2006 Monte Carlo SS after I took it onto the Bonneville Salt Flats back in 2009. I...

Godzilla or Not: This Video Shows A New 7.3L Gas Super Duty Ford On The Chassis Dyno Along With A 6.2L Truck

When Ford released the information that it would be introducing the modern equivalent of a gas burning big block engine for their Super Duty truck lineup a while back, the world reacted with a kind...

Ya Gotta Be Tough: Spills, Thrills And Carnage From Busted Knuckle Video!

The folks at Busted Knuckle Video get to some of the wildest off-roading there is in the States. Rockbouncers, hillclimbs, mega truck action, Formula Offroad-style time trials, bogging,...

The 2020 Dakar Rally Is On And Man Is It A Beast! Saudi Arabia, And It’s Crazy Variety Of Terrain And Sand, Is Home To This Historic Spectacle

I first started really watching the Dakar Rally back in the late 1990s and couldn’t believe just how cool this race was to watch on TV. For years I looked forward to it and thought it would be...

4 Teams, 4 Junkyard Trucks, $6,000, And 1 Week To Buy A Truck And Build It Into The Ultimate Off-Road Machine In Pursuit Of The $10,000 Prize.

The Horsepower Wars Junkyard Challenge presented by K&N is the ultimate test of 4 man teams in an effort to build the ultimate low buck off-road machine. Each team has been given $2,500 to buy a...

Hitting The Dusty Trail: Take A Tour Of This Converted TopKick Ambulance!

When I was a teenager, I dreamed of a setup like this: a large truck, a big box on the back to sleep in, and no reason to deal with anybody on the planet anymore. It made sense in my head, but...

Legends, Mate: The Best Off-Roading Shots Of 2019 From Sick Puppy 4×4!

I could simply write one sentence about this video and walk away. Seriously, one sentence – The chopped-up Nissan gets rolled before the opening credits roll, how good can this be? – and...

Best of 2019: The Man Who’d Rather Drive A Truck Than A Car – This 1975 Dodge Pickup Truck Commercial Is Fun

A tough looking truck sloshing through puddles, hauling hay, and driving over dirt roads in a vast landscape. That’s pretty much 67% of every truck commercial ever made from the present day all...

Best of 2019: Te Definition Of Tuff Truck: Watch This Jeep Cherokee Get Pounded!

We’re not sure if the driver ever walked in a fully upright position after completing this Tuff Truck run at the 2018 Lebanon Fair in Pennsylvania. We have seen plenty of gutsy tuff truck runs...

Best of 2019: If You Have Ever Wondered How A Roots Blower Works, This Animation Is Just The Ticket

They were a novel pump. The Roots brothers invented the design in Civil War America and Roots pumps were used for moving air into mines, moving water where it needed to go, and even used to feed...

Best of 2019: The Liwa Sand Dune Hillclimb In The UAE

Gearheads can be found in every corner of the planet. Every last one. From Chevrolet Opalas racing in the jungles of South America to the brutal off-roaders of the remote Russian forests, if vehicles...

Best of 2019: Katech Made Nearly 1,500hp With Their Stock Bottom End LT5 Before They Called it Quits

A couple of weeks go we reported on the 1,000+hp LT5 that Katech had created with the stock fuel system and minimal amounts of bolt on parts. That particular engine still had the stock camshaft in...

Best of 2019: Watch This Crusher Bound Detroit Diesel V-16 Two Stroke Go Out With Its Boots On

Many of you are going to hate this video because it involves the destruction of an engine and a cool engine at that. Many of you will be disgusted by seeing a crusher bound Detroit Diesel V-16 two...