Category Archive: BangShift News, FORD, TRUCKS
Enough Soda Can Jokes: Ford’s F-150 Just Aced The NHTSA’s New Vehicle Tests
(Images: Ford) When Ford announced that the next-generation F-150 was switching over to an aluminum-intensive structure, there was plenty of doubt about the durability and safety of one of the...
Freiburger Finishes Off The EBC Brakes Mustang And Finnegan Talks Some Smack On This Episode Of Hot Rod Garage!
For the last few episodes of Hot Rod Garage, Freiburger has been taking us through a budget-minded build of a 2005 Ford Mustang GT that was tuned to have a little more power and a lot more handling...
This 1971 Ford LTD Droptop Is Just Begging To Be Driven – If You Like Them Topless And Big, This One’s For You!
Seventeen years of legal driving (plus many more on top of that) and the only convertible I’ve ever driven was a 1987 Chrysler LeBaron that had at least once cylinder calling it a day. The car...
Ebay Find: Could You Resist Cutting Up This 1982 Ford Durango?
Fox-body Fords are easy to come by. But finding a Ford Durango is like finding a diamond in the dirt while pulling weeds in your backyard. Numbers vary, but somewhere between 80 and 350 of the utes...
Historical Footage: Car Craft’s “Project 200” 1993 Ford Mustang Cobra Making The Record Run
The 1993 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra was one of the first indications that Ford was really getting serious with the Mustang again after nearly letting it die in the mid-1980s. It was a one-year...
Unveiled: The Lincoln Continental Concept – There Might Be A Pulse Left At Lincoln After All
(Photos: Ford Motor Company) Ford’s got this “hide the concept until the last freaking minute” thing down pat. First was the Ford GT, and now this, the Lincoln Continental concept...
Ford Of Europe Introduces Intelligent Speed Limiter, The System That Keeps You From Speeding Automatically!
Are you, as an adult with a driver’s license, incapable of reading and obeying simple traffic laws? Are you too occupied with anything other than properly driving your vehicle that you tend to...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Legs” By ZZ Top, Complete With The Eliminator Coupe
Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard and Dusty Hill have been cranking out tunes since 1969 as ZZ Top. Let me put that into perspective for you: the band is only four years younger than my mother. The...
Epic Craigslist Find: Holman-Moody’s 1967 Ford F-100 Shop Truck
Holman-Moody’s 1967 Ford shop truck is for sale for $14,000. Do you really need to know any more than that? Working with Ford products, Holman-Moody were the name in motorsports in the late...
Freiburger Is Back With A Bolt-On Suspension Kit For Hot Rod Garage’s Mustang…And You’ve Got To See This Episode’s Q&A Session!
We’re really digging what Freiburger and crew are doing to the black 2005 Ford Mustang GT on Hot Rod Garage, which is pretty much what we’re doing to our Chrysler 300C. Hmm…maybe...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News: Texas Ranger Ram, Porsche’s Tantrum And Your Shocking New Virgin
What a week for the news…between Clarksongate, rumors for the New York Auto Show rumors and “oh, yeah, did you hear, Clarkson got fired from Top Gear?”, we were still able to find...
What Does Lincoln Have For The New York Auto Show? Strong Indications Predict A New Continental
Lincoln has been drifting for years, relying on rebadged Fords to keep itself afloat. But if the code-crackers at Blue Oval Forums have things right, it looks like Lincoln has been keeping a...
The 2016 Ford Focus RS Debuts At The New York Auto Show: All-Wheel Drive And “Over 315 Horsepower”! Subaru, Be Worried.
(Photos: Ford Motor Company) We knew it was coming, we’ve been waiting for it, and now it’s official: This is the US-market Ford Focus RS. And it’s exactly what we were hoping it...
