Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??
Question Of The Day: When Did You Want To Hang The Engineer Of Your Car?
If you were anywhere on the engineering team that packaged up the Chrysler LX platform, you are not my friend right now. In fact, I’d be seeing blood red if it weren’t for the fact that...
Swapping an S10/S15 T-5 Transmission Into Your Hot Rod? Hurst Has Your Shifter Needs Covered With The Blackjack
These days many people are swapping GM T-5 manual transmissions into their hot rod projects. These are the transmissions commonly found in S10 and S15 trucks from years back and they can be bought...
Here’s Something We All Can Enjoy: A Small-Block Powered Porsche 914 Running Elevens!
The Porsche 914…the half-hearted Porsche. If you’re unfamiliar with these things, here’s the quick and dirty version: Porsche wanted to replace the 912 and Volkswagen wanted to...
Strange Days: Nissan Is Working On Brain-To-Vehicle Technology
(Lead Photo: Nissan USA) Have you ever seen the movie Strange Days? It’s from the early 1990s and it’s one of my favorites for many reasons which I will skip, but there is one connection...
No Dixie Horn? Watch As This Kia SUV Jumps Over Traffic After Hitting The ATM!
Elsewhere today you will read about the Kia Stinger GT, a five-passenger sedan with rather shocking acceleration. Apparently, that entire review was for nothing, because the way this Kia Sportage SUV...
Rough Start: Bending The Budget On A Clean Cadillac Hearse…Just Imagine The Attention You’ll Get!
By the 1990s, station wagons were all but done. Outside of a couple of small holdouts like the Ford Escort and the final B-body wagons from GM, the sport-utility craze had all but killed off long...
Just How Good Can An LS-Swapped Mazda RX-7 Be? Regular Car Reviews Checks Out A Well-Sorted Example
Let’s start 2018 out with some anger, shall we? The fastest way we know how to make that happen is to showcase an LS swap. Nevermind the capability and proven performance of GM’s heir to...
Unhinged: Do You Feel Unsafe Driving Your Car Without Driving Aids Yet?
Recently, Nissan put out a commercial that, on the surface, looked to be a simple tie-in with the movie “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”. It shows what you reasonably assume to be a father and...
No Joke: Leno Checks Out A Hemi Superbird Owned By Jeff Dunham
Which one of the winged wonders that Chrysler cranked out at the height of the Aero Wars do you go for, the Dodge Charger Daytona or the Plymouth Road Runner Superbird? On the surface, they seem to...
The Cold, Hard No: Watch As This Rockbouncer Rolls Back To The Bottom Of The Hill
Being told “no” sucks. It’s one of the first things you learn as a child and it sticks with you as you grow up and grow old. No, you can’t have another piece of candy. No, you...
BangShift Question Of The Day: When Was The Last Time You Laughed At A For Sale Ad?
Anybody who has ever read my work knows that I have a soft spot for cars built between 1973 and 1990 or so…you know, the years most normal people avoid like the plague because a...
Snow Monster: The Dynamics Of A Kamaz Dakar Truck Flying In Frozen Russia
I don’t know how many words in Russian we all know between the three of us, but there is one we all know without question: KAMAZ. That stands for ten tons of Russian race truck that uses about...
Watch At The Hoonigan Team Welcome In The New Year Right: Eighteen Car Tire Fire!
The Hoonigan folks are car geeks to the core. Videos, jokes, and all of that mess are secondary to the machines. Everybody who hangs around the shop on a full-time basis has their car ready to go:...
