Category Archive: BangShift News, FUNNY STUFF
Friday Excuse To Go Home Early And Drink: Another Prius Is Coming.
Jun 13, 2015Bryan McTaggart5
The Toyota Prius. Is there any other car out there that more BangShifters wish, hope and pray would disappear from car lots everywhere? We doubt it. We first saw the car in 2001, looking like a...
Roadkill! The 1970 Duster That Time (and Freiburger) Forgot Gets The Reworked 440 Out Of The General Mayhem Charger!
Jun 01, 2015Bryan McTaggart22
We’ve known for a while now that General Mayhem, Roadkill’s 1968 Dodge Charger, is more-than-likely going to be the first Hellcat Hemi swap in existence. We couldn’t think of a...
Giving A Buick Century A Viking Funeral It Doesn’t Deserve: A Ton Of Nitrous And A Tire-Frying Finish!
May 29, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
Surely you’ve thought about it at least once: taking a random crapcan that is barely on its last legs and seeing just how far the dog-tired beast would go before it finally bought the farm....
Colin Furze’s Jet Kart: Proof That There Are Still Mad Scientists Out There
May 22, 2015Bryan McTaggart4
The last time we checked in on Master Furze, he had strapped a crotch-rocket engine to a weaponized Tuk-Tuk delivery cart and was driving around, roosting up dirt, blowing shit up and setting things...
The Boys Are Back…Kind Of. Clarkson, Hammond And May Are Doing A Live Tour, Plus Show Rumors
May 14, 2015Bryan McTaggart4
Raise your hand if you’ve been suffering withdrawals ever since Jeremy Clarkson got drunk and smacked a producer around a little. Yeah, me too. I’m not bound so much to TopGear (in fact I...
Classic YouTube: The Dodge Aries K Spoof Ad- Standard Features Make It Feel So…Ordinary.
May 13, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
When the K-cars debuted, they grabbed ahold of a market that up until then Chrysler was avoiding like the plague: cheap, reliable basic transportation. And somehow, the success of the K-car managed...
A Hacked Convertible Grand Marquis, A Random Guy And A Heavy Right Foot…This Will End Well.
May 05, 2015Bryan McTaggart6
Boredom can cause normally rational people to do strange things, all in the name of entertainment. Doing burnouts in random places at three in the morning in a quiet parking lot with a friend filming...
Roadkill! After Off-Roading A Lowrider Monte Carlo, Freiburger and Finnegan’s Chiropractors Become Rich!
May 02, 2015Bryan McTaggart3
Of all of the cars one would have expected Roadkill to feature, a pea-green 1980 Chevrolet Monte Carlo lowrider didn’t make the list. Finnegan doesn’t really bring his mini-truck past...
A Lamborghini Takes On A Snowmobile In The Snow Of Sweden To See Who Will Win A Drag Race
Apr 30, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
Why don’t we get invited to stuff like this? Auto Express recently got to test out the all-wheel-drive Lamborghini Huracan in Sweden to see if the $237,000-plus supercar….well,...
This Stop-Motion Teardown And Rebuild Of An Engine Is Wonderful, Took 11 Months And Covers Every Detail, Including The Extra Parts!
Apr 29, 2015Bryan McTaggart4
According to the Facebook site “Disturb Reality”, it took eleven months, three thousand pictures, and “a lot of coffee” to put together this stop-motion video documenting the...
Toyota Responds To The Hydrogen-Powered Mirai’s Critics By Proving That The Car Does Run On B.S.
Apr 24, 2015Bryan McTaggart7
In the race to find a viable alternative to the internal combustion engine, it would seem that electric power might be the only game in town, but for Toyota, the concept of a hydrogen fuel cell...
This 600hp V8-powered, Four Wheel Drive, Four Wheel Steering Midget Truck Is Insanity Painted Red
Apr 24, 2015Bryan McTaggart4
The video has been around for over eight years now, but it’s the first time I can recall seeing anything like it. It’s like one of those off-roading golf karts on Mötley Crüe levels of...
Watch These Two MotoGP Riders Have The Biggest Grade-School Fight On The Track You’ve Ever Seen
Apr 23, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
Racers aren’t known for excellent temper control. It’s a combination of the determination of every racer to win coupled with the usual alpha personality that is present. It’s not...
Video Carnage: Watch This Subaru Literally Barf An Engine While Trying To Win An Engine Revving Contest
Apr 22, 2015Dave Nutting14
I wouldn’t know this from personal experience, but I’ve heard from a few folks a bit older than me (::cough:: Chad ::cough::) that as you age, things don’t work quite as well as...





