New Head of GM North America Formerly Ran GM Performance, Holden
Mark Reuss is the new head of GM’s North American operations and you’ll be happy to know that he is a hard core car guy. Reuss previously ran the GM Performance Division and oversaw...
Stick to Your Prius: Canadian Reviewer Pans Camaro
The new Camaro has been reviewed by tons of media outlets. Most of the issues encountered by test drivers have been the same. There were some ergonomic complaints about the cabin and some issues with...
Amazing Video: Tiny Turbine Powered R/C Pulling Tractor
This is one of the craziest things we have ever seen. The video we dug up shows a very small remote control pulling tractor powered by an actual, tiny, turbine engine. We’d by lying if we said...
It’s Good to be the Sheik: Al-Anabi Team Owner Sheik Khalid bin Hamad Al-Thani Drives F1 Car
Sheik Khalid bin Hamad Al-Thani, the owner of the massive, international Al-Anabi drag racing team, recently made history, becoming the first ever Qatari to drive a Formula One car. The ride was...
Craigslist Pick of the Week: A Monster 1973 Cadillac Eldorado
Whale-like Cadillacs from the early and mid-’70s are kind of a double-edged sword. On one hand they’re cool for their sheer girth and the fact that they were often packing 500 cubes...
Killer Digger Follow Up: Great Photos of Another SPE Slingshot in action
Yesterday we told you about a neat old front engine dragster that is for sale. The car has some cool history and was built by the west coast shop of Roy Fjastad called Speed Products Engineering. We...
Wild Video: Monster Trucks Running an Eighth Mile Drag Race
You’ve got to give the guys and girls at the ADRL credit, they know how to put on one hell of a show. They pulled out all the stops at their final race of the season by having two monster...
BangShift Approved: Christmas Deals from Goodmark
Everyone is pinching pennies this holiday season, and deep discounts are being advertised at every mall, retail shop, and garage sale in the country. Why should car parts get left out of the...
Former NHRA Racer, Team Owner In Big Trouble With the Government
Longtime Pro Mod standout and NHRA national event winning Funny Car racer and Top Fuel Team Owner Mike Ashley is in some serious trouble with the federal government. Ashley worked as the “chief...
New IHRA Pro Fuel Class Looks Cool, Veale/Brown Motorsports Digger will be there
The IHRA announced some major league format changes for the 2010 season, and they also announced some new classes that will be contested. One of them is being called “Pro Fuel” and is...
Saab sale news: Chinese may buy some assets, others interested in whole company
Saab has been a hot potato for GM as of late. The company started a deal to sell the brand to a Swedish sports car manufacturer but it fell apart in the late innings, then there was discussion with...
Wisconsin College Kids Get Engines to Run on (Mostly) Water
We hope there are no black helicopters circling the east coast BangShift.com HQ or any strange oil company representatives knocking at our door for reporting this story. A group of kids and a...
Quick Gallery: The 2009 PRI Show by MSD’s Todd Ryden
The 2009 Performance Racing Industry trade show is up and running in Orlando, Florida. Due to other commitments we could not attend the very cool gathering of hard core vendors from all genres of the...
Drag Racing in Paradise: St. Lucia Hosts a straight line shindig
Sometimes we take for granted that most of us live within a couple hour drive of the local drag strip. You can be-bop to the strip on a Sunday and see a couple hundred cars reeling off laps all day....
