Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos
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...
Got A RZR? RacePak Is Brining Cool New Stuff To Market Just For You!
There was literally no way to predict the explosive development of the side by side/UTV market when these things started popping up 15 years ago. Initially intended for work around the farm or on...
The 2015 Houston Performance Trucks Shootout – Here’s Our Last Blast Of Action From The Race
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Well, we’re finally at the end of our run of great Wickam photos from the 2015 Houston Performance Trucks shootout at Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, Texas....
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...
The 2015 Ford F150: All New, All Aluminum, A Refined Version Of Your Granddad’s Hammer – We Drive It
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – I was pretty excited to get my mitts on a 2015 Ford F150 for obvious reasons. The thing is one of the world’s best selling vehicles and a keystone part of...
This Incredibly Rare 1937 Checker Y8 Was Made Into A Wrecker In The 1940s And Has Been Restored To Its Glory
When we think of the Checker car company, lots of times we default to thoughts of the square, tank-like machines that populated New York City streets and the streets of many other cities for decades...
Someone Mated The Front Of A 1939 Studebaker To A 1961 Chevy Bus And Now They Want You To Buy It
There’s good weird, there’s bad weird, and then there’s just plain old weird. This 1961 Chevy bus with a 1939 Studebaker nose pretty much fits all three categories in one way or...
Truckin’ In The Desert: More Unique, Cool, Well Used, and Interesting Trucks From Viva Las Vegas 2015
As we have been doing all through the weekend, we’re bringing you cool photos from the huge and fun Viva Las Vegas 2015 show. This is another collection of classic, hot rodded, patina ridden,...
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...