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Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos

Ford Performance Celebrates 50 Years Of Mustang By (What Else?) Celebrating Tire Smoke!

Did you possibly think Ford was done celebrating the Mustang’s 50th anniversary now that the S550 car has been released? Nope! With the new Ford Performance banner, it looks like the...

Just In Time For The Arctic Blast: Here’s How Manufacturers Tests Their Cars For Cold

Over the next couple of days, temperatures around BangShift Mid-West will be sitting at a high 0f maybe 15 degrees F with night time temps dropping to 2. And that’s before wind chill is even...

Historic Video: Holden Precision Driving Team In HQ Monaros

The Holden Precision Driving Team operated from 1968 to 1999, and after a a couple of years driving Hyundais, as the Holden Stormriders from 2003-2008 and were known for taking performance Holdens...

Watch A Hot Rodded Nissan GTR Spin At El Mirage While Making Nearly 200 MPH! Land Speed Racing Ain’t Easy!

Land speed racing is one of the more imposing forms of motorsports in the known universe because you are literally fighting an invisible enemy…air. That pesky stuff that you can’t see...

This ’32 Ford Makes So Much Smoke At Brashernats That The Driver Has To Stop And Let The Air Clear!

We have seen tons of Aussie burnout footage…literally, tons. Plenty of Holdens, Falcons, and microcars that have ten times the power they left the factory with have laid waste to tires on the...

Aussie Tire Frying Videos, To Keep Us Warm Throughout The Winter

If you’re in North America, t’s rainy, it’s cold, and that’s if you’re lucky enough to not be set in with snow and ice. Lohnes might be able to tolerate this freezing...

It’s…Beautiful: There Is A Winter Driving School Hosted By Lamborghini

While we wait for a snowed-in parking lot to appear so that we can go have fun in our rides, the well-heeled can go test their winter-driving mettle (or simply learn how to drive in the stuff)  in...

Take Count Of How Many Stunts This Polaris RZR Does During This Video (Hint: Two Are World Records)

This modified Polaris RZR UTV was built to rip around a special course set up on Mount Baker in Washington State for R.J. Anderson, who is the driver for the XP1K2 video for UTVUnderground.com. Pro...

Check Out The Trailer For The New Fast And The Furious Movie, “Furious 7”

The Fast and The Furious has often been more of a punchline than an accepted car movie franchise. And the first couple of movies certainly didn’t help that stereotype, focusing on hedonistic...

Watch Amazing Footage of 1940s SoCal Hot Rodders Dirt Track Racing – A Young Jim Rathmann Among Them

We were tipped off to this incredible seven minute film by a BangShift reader. It looks like B-roll footage from a production company or movie studio that was working on one of the myriad of hot rod...

Check Out This Video Of The Jeep Renegade Playing In The Sandbox And Splashing In The Puddles

I can’t even mask the contempt I have for the Jeep Renegade anymore. It’s obnoxiously focused on being a cute Jeep-y looking little thing and every time someone tries to make me think...

This Remote-Controlled Concorde Is Just Awesome, Jet Engines And All

No matter how many times I come across videos of the large-scale remote-controlled aircraft that appear at such events as Panoramaflugtag in Germany, I’m always stunned and impressed by the...

Travis Pastrana May Not Be Human – Watch Him Win This Dirt Bike Race And Then Pull A Backflip At The End Just Because

He’s leapt from airplanes with no parachute, jumped cars onto barges, crashed and survived harder than few others on Earth, raced NASCAR, and made millions along the way. All that said and...

Gratuitous Burnout: This 1963 Ford Galaxie Cooks Them Off Properly

All of us at BangShift love our cars useable, durable, and powerful, and when I found this footage of a 1963 Ford Galaxie screaming it’s lungs out on a burnout pad in either Australia or New...