Matt Farah, Zack Klapman, Chris Hayes, and Thad Brown sit down with automotive icons, pro drivers, comedians and other friends to discuss automotive industry news, racing, projects and whatever else comes to mind.For video test drives and reviews, go toTheSmokingTire.comorwww.youtube.com/thesmokingtireRentour movie, where we find out if some bad CraigsList cars can cross an entire US State, off-road!www.thesmokingtire.com/film
Matt Farah and Zack Klapman are on their own on this one, and talk about cars, driving knowledge, answering lots of listener questions, ranting about Fast and Furious movies, and more.
Matt, Alex Roy, and Mike Spinelli take a break from filming an episode of /DRIVE on NBC Sports to record a podcast in their hotel room.
Our guest is driving instructor Austin Cabot. He's led the instruction at Speed Venture and Gridlife track events, owned some awesome cars, and just bought...an ambulance. We talk about cars, how to drive fast, how to mod your car, and that ambulance.
This week our good friends over at Turn 10 are back in LA for E3 to show off Forza Motorsport 7. As is tradition creative director at Turn 10 Dan Greenawalt joins us to talk about the new game. In addition to the new game we touch on the brand new Xbox One X and gaming in HDR + 4k along with Dan's love for his GT350.
Once again Spike Feresten joins us in the studio; this time to promote his new podcast Spike Feresten's Car Radio. As is tradition when Spike is around Porsche gets lots of air time which in this case coincided with our preview earlier in the day of Forza 7 which debuted the new 991 GT2 RS. Additionally Matt and Zack share grid life stories and somehow we end up back on watches.
Jonny Lieberman andNic Cuarta of Bee Line Coffee Co.join us with a selection of various California hillbilly fuel for Matt to sample. We talk essential oils, whiskey and on occassion cars. Nic's family has a storied background in racing and he shares the story of how that turned into a coffee company. As usual we cover Porsches and Jony shares his experience in the 991.2 GT3 along with his undyring love for Mercedes G-Wagons. Despite none of us having even sat in the new Ford GT we all speculate on Ford's new halo car. In addition we drop a little rumor on the new twin turbo Lexus V8.
Watchmaker Cameron Weiss, of Weiss Watch Company, comes by to explain how he built his Mercedes 4x4, why he loves driving his 1959 Beetle, and everything you want to know about watches: how they were made last century, how they make them now, wy some cost as much as a house, and what you should buy if you have $50, or $500,000. It's an incredible kind of engineering that parallels the car world clearly. Sitting in with us again is Nic Cuarta, of Bee Line Coffee.
Once again in studio our friend and frequent guest Mr. Alex Roy joins us. This week we cover amature racing,, Miatas, McLarens dinner clubs and a bevy of other random subject matter that usually occur when Alex joins us.
Creator of ICON 4x4, builder of some of the most beautiful and functional vehicles on Earth, Jonathan Ward.
Our guests today are the hilarious hosts from the new /DRIVE series, "Corbin's Hit Show", Corbin Goodwin and Michael Elterman. They are experts at turning cheap heaps into fast heaps. Their show is about making a cheap, used car as fast as its modern counterpart, using junk yard parts. In their first show they bought a 1984 Mustang SVO and got quite creative with it.Also in this show, Matt talks about travel, and Mustangs. Michael tells the story of bad steering modifications, and Corbin misses his evo.
