Category Archive: BangShift News, RACING & ACTION, Videos
265.6 MPH: Watch The Hennessey Venom GT Spyder Go For The Convertible Speed Record!
Apr 12, 2016Bryan McTaggart4
It is funny to think that a company with a history, pedigree, and relevancy like Bugatti is actually competing with a gearhead with a mad scientist kick from Texas, but the truth is that Hennessey...
Fail Video: Watch A Guy Completely Wipe Out The Front End Of His Nissan 240 In A Bad Street Drift Attempt
Apr 09, 2016Brian Lohnes3
As we’ve said many times before here on the electronic pages of BangShift, we’ve got all the respect in the world for drift drivers. It isn’t easy, and they make it look like no...
This Guy Knows His Machine! Watch As He Pulls Off Stunts With His Yamaha MT-07 Like It’s A Bicycle!
Apr 04, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
Do you remember mastering the J-turn on your bicycle by locking up the rear wheel and swinging the tail around? Remember how awesome you thought you were for being able to master the perfect...
Didn’t Expect This: Watch As Takeshi Kimura Takes His Ferrari F40 Camping In The Snow!
Apr 04, 2016Bryan McTaggart2
Ferrari’s F40 is an automotive legend. At the risk of having a couple of men in suits show up at my house, I view the F40 as the Italian take on the formula that the Dodge Charger Daytona...
Easter Egg: This Radical Geo Tracker Is A Mudding Machine! Watch It Shred The Earth In Michigan!
Mar 27, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Easter Egg: This Radical Geo Tracker Is A Mudding Machine! Watch It Shred The Earth In Michigan!
Here’s a fun riddle: what’s tiny and sketchy, roars like a hungry lion, and rips up more turf than a box full of gophers on caffeine? This little Geo Tracker, nicknamed...
Michelle Rodriguez Got To Drive A Jaguar F-Type SVR Flat Out On A Nevada Highway!
Mar 26, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
Without a doubt, comparisons between the character Letty from the Fast and Furious movie franchise and Michelle Rodriguez, who plays Letty, are pretty much inevitable. When the role you are most...
Hellcat On Ice! Watch As Exclusive Cars Takes Mopar’s Mental Patient To 170 Miles An Hour On Ice In Sweden!
Mar 24, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
When Brian Lohnes, a man who tends to keep his comparisons realistic, willfully correlated his time in a Dodge Challenger Hellcat to the perfect drug, that should have said it all. When every car rag...
Looks Perfectly Safe To Us: Check Out This Jet-Powered Smart Car!
Mar 22, 2016Bryan McTaggart3
You know what kind of engine would wake up a Smart car? ANY engine swap. The original inline-3 has just enough power that you won’t get run over in most city driving, the CVT transmission...
Morning Symphony: This Compilation Of The Best Exhaust Notes Ever Should Be Your New Alarm Clock!
Mar 22, 2016Bryan McTaggart2
What moves you in the morning? The sounds of your kids running around the house and the urgent need to make sure that calamity is restored? The sound of a cat meowing into your left eardrum because...
Classic YouTube: The 1986 International Race of Champions At Mid-Ohio
Mar 21, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Classic YouTube: The 1986 International Race of Champions At Mid-Ohio
For the 1986 season of the International Race of Champions (IROC), twelve drivers battled in four races to determine who was the driver’s driver. Running Chevrolet Camaro stock cars that were...
Drag Video: Watch A Wild Aussie 10.5 Nova Pull A Massive Wheelie Through The Traps At 200+ MPH
Mar 13, 2016Brian Lohnes2
It has been like Aussie Week here on BangShift so far! We’ve been running lots of video and content from the land down under and frankly there’s a reason…it is cool stuff! This...
Watch As Victory Motorcycles Earns Their Guiness World Record For Longest Motorcycle Burnout – 2.23 Miles!
Mar 11, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
If you’re going to do a PR stunt to promote your product, this is how you do it: prove that your product is capable and durable. Victory Motorcycles is currently promoting their new Octane, a...
Haulin’ Ass Without Gas: Watch As The Genovation GXE Corvette Z06 Runs 186.8 MPH In A Mile!
Mar 08, 2016Bryan McTaggart4
The beauty of an all-electric powerplant is that all of the torque is available immediately. Hit the button and whatever the number is hits the drive wheels right now. Cars like the “White...
March Meet Video: What It’s Like To Be The Driver Of An Exploding Front Engine Top Fuel Car
Mar 02, 2016Brian LohnesComments Off on March Meet Video: What It’s Like To Be The Driver Of An Exploding Front Engine Top Fuel Car
The boys on the crew of the Mr Boston nostalgia top fuel car had a rough go of it in Bakersfield during the 2013 March Meet. The car never did what they wanted it to do and ultimately they suffered a...