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Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, MOPAR, TRUCKS, Videos

Reaction Video! Watch As A Couple Of Gearheads From Isreal Meet Insanity Racing’s Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8!

The side of me with the twisted humor loves these reaction videos: plant some sucker into the passenger seat of a car that has unholy amounts of power and train a camera onto their face. Then take...

Watching An M1 Abrams Tank Extract Itself From A Mud Pit Is Hilarious For Everyone Except The Driver

The bigger they are, the faster they sink to the bottom and the harder it is to free the damn thing from the mud. And they don’t get much bigger than a 68-ton M1A2 Abrams battle tank, which are...

A Top Speed Run In A Yugo? Watch As The Guys From Edmunds.com Take Their Lives Into Their Own Hands!

(Photo: Edmunds.com) The automotive punchline of the 1980s: Yugo. A car that has more in common with a large USPS drop-box than it did with the rest of the automotive world. Two-digit horsepower...

This Is The Most BangShifty Boat Ever: Forget The Oars, These Dudes Use A Dirt Bike For Propulsion!

(By Jason Mazzotta) – Sometimes ideas work better on paper than they do when played out and this is a rare case when the idea this group came up with worked out pretty good. What do you do...

Regular Car Reviews Got Their Hands On A 1988 Corvette – Does The Digital Dash Turn Mr. Regular On?

The first car I owned to myself was a 1983 Corvette. Wanna call BS on that one? Go ahead…it was a silver C4 with a red interior and chrome wheels. It was a Hot Wheels car, and it’s the...

This Is The Quickest Way To Get A Dodge Stuck In The Mud We’ve Ever Seen – Did They Even Check The Depth First?

“Look before you leap.” Did you ever hear that as a kid? Did you think, even for a second, that your parents just meant that in the literal sense and not in some sort of figurative sense?...

Friday Excuse To Go Home Early And Drink: Another Prius Is Coming.

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!

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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...