Category Archive: BangShift Road Test, CHEVY
Quick Review: 2016 Chevrolet Camaro RS 2LT Four-Cylinder – How Does GM’s Pony Car Stack Up With Only Half Of The Deck?
In the fall of 1981, the new-for-1982 Chevrolet Camaro offered up an option that pretty much told you how bad the situation was: the LQ9, better known as Pontiac’s “Iron Duke”...
Motor Trend Tests The Chevrolet SS Sedan Out, Compares It To A Fifteen-Year-Old BMW, Doesn’t Bother Testing New BMWs
Up front: the video is going to be exactly what you are expecting from Motor Trend. Jason Cammisa will drive a car, Randy Pobst will show you how hard the car can be driven, and you’ll hear a...
Morning Symphony: Beating On New Chevrolet Camaro ZL1s around the Nurburgring Was Never Mentioned At Career Day
So far, I haven’t worked one single job that would line up with what my guidance counselor told me I’d wind up becoming. To be fair, most of the jobs I’ve had didn’t line up...
152 Miles An Hour At Indy, Semi-Autonomously – Watch As Sam Schmidt Run Indy Using Only His Eyes And Breath!
152 miles an hour around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2016 should register much of a reaction normally, but in the case of this black Corvette Z06, it’s a milestone. Driving the car is...
This 1954 Dodge C-Series Is Classic In All Of The Right Senses – Fat Fenders, Wood Bed, And A Warmed-Up DeSoto Hemi!
You don’t see a lot of 1950s Dodge trucks, do you? You can find Ford F-1s, you can find Chevrolets and GMCs all day long, but finding a Dodge is difficult…even if all you’re...
Too Much At The Hit? Watch This Pontiac Firehawk Go Straight For The Sky!
Yanking the wheels at launch is one thing. Realizing that you no longer see the horizon…or the time displays at the end of the track…or trees…yeah, that might be just a step too...
Anybody Like An Old Tow Truck? This 1978 Ford C600 Wrecker Is Cab-Over Greatness!
It’s short, stronger than an ox, with classic lines and a shape that is wholly distinctive. With a big V8 (either an “FT” or a 385-series 370ci big block) hooked to a set of deep...
Flyin’ Brick: Watch This Jeep SRT-8 Show Supercars How It’s Done In The Half-Mile!
The only thing I wanted to see more than this Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8 punching through the air at 180 miles an hour was to have a microphone hidden inside of the Porsche 918 that was trailing along...
Bless You, Craigslist: This 1980 Ford Pinto Is Beautiful And Filled With Promise!
You just have to laugh, even a little bit. Nose-high stance, big-and-little slot mags, bronze paint, Ford Pinto. This isn’t a car, it’s a seventh-grade sketch. It’s the Rat Fink...
eBay Find: This 1975 Buick Regal “Free Spirit” Indy Pace Car Isn’t For The Introvert!
Bright colors and gaudy graphics weren’t exactly Buick’s thing in the mid-1970s…or, for that matter, any time. The 1970 Buick GSX came close, but Saturn Yellow and Apollo White were...
Rough Start: This 1987 Chrysler Conquest Is Too Clean To Pass Up! Wide Body, Clean And Ready To Build!
Chrysler and Mitsubishi had a deal going for a long time that saw Mitsubishi-built cars brought into the United States and rebadged as Chrysler, Plymouth and Dodge products. In a move that the...
This 1988 Chevrolet Corvette Is Ready To Go! Save This Fiberglass Pro Street Machine From A Life Of Fairground Cruising!
We were a bit surprised with the kickback we received over whether or not the C4 Corvette has finally made it’s way past the reputation that it’s carried. Quite a few of you were pretty...
With This V8-Swapped Geo Metro, You Can Get To Know Your Self-Preservation Instinct!
“Get To Know Geo.” That was the tagline, wasn’t it? One of two new nameplates added on to General Motors’ long list of brands, Geo was basically a front for GM to bring in...
