Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos

Fabrication Fail Video: What Happens When Your Front Suspension Mounting Isn’t Quite As Strong As It Needs To Be

Good fabrication work is one of those things that shows itself by not failing. It exemplifies how good it is by never making you think about its quality. That may sound weird, but stick with me for a...

This Japanese Maglev Train Broke Its Own Speed Record This Week With An Incredible 374mph Charge

For 11 seconds, this Japanese Maglev train powered through a tunnel at over 370mph with a peak speed of 374 mph. That’s not to say the thing shot up to that speed and was done. Nope. This train...

Watch A 27-Liter Rolls Royce Powered Rover SD-1 Make A Dyno Pull And Make Some Header Flames

Big engine in a little car is pretty much the basic formula for success in the hot rodding world. Huge flipping engine in even smaller freaking car is the kind of math that BangShifters absolutely...

This European Pulling Tractor Rules But What The Heck Kind Of Engine Is Making The Power?

The tractor you are going to see in this video is named “Metal Boy” and it pretty much rules. The video contains a walk around and then it shows the tractor pulling the sled successfully...

These Yamal Vehicles Look Like The Ultimate Tundra Toys Imaginable

Just look at that shot: a heavy-duty semi-tractor based expedition vehicle articulating in the middle on tires that you could probably run somebody over with and not hurt them. Iceland’s Arctic...

The Ripsaw EV-2 Is A Hot Rod Tank From Hell – Watch It Drift, Plow Through Trees, And Jump!

They guys from Howe and Howe Technologies up in Maine have outdone themselves again. The company is in the business if building specialty vehicles for use in all different arenas. They have built...

The Face Of Freight To Come? Freightliner’s Supertruck Is A 5 Year Project That Delivers 12-MPG

Improving the efficiency of over the road trucks has long been a pursuit of not just the truck makers themselves but also of the government, who have shoveled out grants and money for engineering...

A Finnish Tire Company Just Set A Speed Record For A Tractor In The Snow

81 miles an hour might not sound all that impressive for a lot of vehicles, but for a tractor, that’s seriously hauling the mail. Pulling that stunt in the snow sounds exceptionally dangerous,...

Behemoth: Watch This Full Sized Chevy Truck Run 7.70s At 170mph Plus With A Twin Turbo LS Engine – World’s Quickest?

Charles Wickam was at the Houston Performance Trucks Shootout last weekend at Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, Texas. He reported back that there was some crazy stuff there and mentioned a truck that...

Check Out This Footage FCA Released Of The 2015 Easter Jeep Safari Concept Vehicles Playing At Moab!

For years now, Jeep puts together some excellent concept vehicles, hauls them out to Moab, and in the spirit of marketing and having fun, takes them out onto the trail during the Easter Jeep Safari....

This Foreign Towing Operation Doesn’t Know The Meaning Of The Word Quit….Or The Words Impending Doom

(By Greg Rourke) – Towing and recovery is a dangerous job. You have weather, other drivers doing their taxes while driving, and vehicles in all sorts of predicaments that you have to get picked...

This 3,000 Horsepower Hummer Sand Dragger Can Move…Both It’s Two-Ton Weight And A Ton Of Dirt!

Hummers aren’t as great as a lot of people think they are. Yeah, I said it. It’s a heavy brick of a vehicle that in most forms was underpowered, seriously over-geared, with an interior...

Easter Egg Video: A MASSIVE RUSSIAN KIROVEC TRACTOR SAVES ITSELF FROM CERTAIN DEATH!

My tractor dorkness is international, so when I ran across this video that shows a massive yellow tractor sticking half way out of a river like a sub breaching the surface, I knew right away that it...

Drifting Coal! Watch This Cummins Ram Do It’s Best Nissan Silvia Impersonation!

Some automotive worlds don’t seem to be able to go together. Drifting and lifted diesel trucks seem to be as comparable as oil and water, with the ability to spin the rear tires the only common...