Category Archive: BangShift News, OTHER
Cadillac CEO Tells Dealers They Need To “Step Up”…Does That Mean A Downsizing Is Immiment?
Johan de Nysschen isn’t messing around with Cadillac, for better or for worse. His latest move was to notify dealers at a meeting in Las Vegas that they had to “step up” to assist...
Michigan Signs Bill Into Law Reinforcing Ban On Direct Vehicle Sales. GM celebrates, Tesla Left In The Cold
Governor Rick Snyder put his signature on H.B. 5606 into law on October 21, 2014, as reported on Jalopnik. What does that mean? In short, the bill restates that it is against Michigan state law for a...
Dodge’s Trademark Woes: “Hellcat” and “Scat Pack” Are Being Challenged In Court
Of all the things FCA really needs right now, two trademark battles over it’s more successful vehicles was certainly not it. Unfortunately, right now that’s exactly what they have on...
Rough Start: Want To Haul A Lot Of Friends With You? How About A 1971 AMC Ambassador?
This one brings back memories. Right about the time I was trying to get a 1979 Cutlass running and driving…which puts me at about 14 years old…a big red sled came into the yard. Up until...
Tesla Customers Go Online To Complain About The Lack Of Warning When It Came To The D
One of the greatest draws to the Tesla Model S is that the car represents the latest and greatest that can come from an auto manufacturer. But what happens when you spend north of $80K on a car and a...
Event Gallery: 2014 Buick GS Nationals At Beech Bend-Turbos And Torque On Display
Buick has had an on-again, off-again deal with building fast cars. In the Sixties they gave us the Gran Sport lineup, which were A-body Skylarks with all of the engine that Buick could stuff into the...
Rough Start: An Eastern Washington Buick Apollo In A Fetching Shade Of Lime
Sometimes all you need to sell a car is a good price and a some fetching photos of the car. In this case, this 1973 Buick Apollo stood out from the typical myriad of rides I’d walk past any day...
In A Rare Admission, Porsche Agrees That The Panamera Sedan’s Look Is “Offputting”
Let’s call it as we see it: when Porsche said they were going to build a four-door sedan there was a collective “what?!” from the automotive community. Porsche could make sports...
Monday Shopper: This 460hp Impala SS Crossed The Block At Mecum Chicago For $5,000
Mecum Auctions’ Chicago auction just wrapped up this Saturday, and prices reflect a crowd that was ready to buy. A 1986 Monte Carlo SS went for $10,500. A stock 1984 Trans Am went for $14,000....
691 Horsepower And Zero Emissions: Tesla Unveils The Twin-Motor, AWD Model S P85D
Last week Tesla CEO Elon Musk informed Twitter users that he was going to “unveil the D”, setting off the Internet on the speculation about Elon’s new “D” and the...
Rough Start: This 1965 Plymouth Fury Would Make For A Clean Driver, And Would You Believe It’s In Fargo?
Blame this one on a late-night viewing of the movie Fargo. Now that I have that accent stuck in my head I have been trying any and every possible trick to get it out of there, but with everybody...
Toledo, Ohio Isn’t Losing Jeep Production Without A Fight
Jeeps have been produced in Toledo, Ohio since the inception of the original Willys-Overland MB series, and you can bet anything you have that Toledo is extremely proud of that heritage. So when the...
Craigslist Find: Think a Viper Weighs Too Much? We Have A Solution!
Do you remember the Corvette that Hot Rod hacked up a couple of years ago for the sake of proving that any weight removed from a vehicle can improve performance? Did you look at the finished result...
Thief Steals Camaro Z/28 From Seattle-Area Dealership In A “Gone In 60 Seconds” Copycat Move
The opening scene of the 2000 remake of Gone in 60 Seconds: Kip Raines has to steal a Porsche. When he finds that the machine is the dealership’s floor eye-candy, he breaks into the...