The Smoking Tire

Legendary tuner John Hennessey has been in the horsepower business for over 25 years. From humble beginnings modifying the Mitsubishi 3000GT to making himself known with the world's fastest street Vi…

Larry Kosilla is one of Matt's oldest friends; they grew up together in Westchester, NY, and went to middle school and high school together. They began the car industry together, founding the New Yor…

In this episode we are joined by Joey Seely, formerly of BBI Autosport and founder of E-Motion Engineering, a boutique Porsche build shop here in SoCal. Joey is a motorsport engineer, builder of the …

In this episode of the podcast, Matt and Jonathon Klein discuss Jon's recent adventures driving short-track dirt sprint cars, his broken Volkswagen Golf R, off-roading Model T's, strategies for getti…

In this episode of The Smoking Tire podcast, Matt has his first go at a solo show, channeling his inner Bill Burr and talking about behind the scenes in production, his take on various trends around …

Rob Ferretti is a great character in that he has actual opinions, which he can defend. He has owned no fewer than a dozen exotic sports cars personally, and has been the proprietor of Gotham Dream Ca…

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. 

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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. 

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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 …

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 a…

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 ca…

Jonny Lieberman and Nic 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 fa…

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…

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 occu…

Creator of ICON 4x4, builder of some of the most beautiful and functional vehicles on Earth, Jonathan Ward. 

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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 a…

Learn why Stanceworks isn't what you think it is, why you may not want a racing motor, and why you should go vintage racing. Guests:  Mike Burroughs and Efrain Olivares 

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On this episode our guests are Chris, the host of the hilarious project-oriented YouTube channel that is 'B is for Build", and Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez, of Jalopnik, who now has a channel of his o…

In studio this week Pete Callaway of Callaway Cars joins us. Most people know Callaway for their very potent Corvette packages however they provide solutions for many of GM V8 platforms and Pete shar…

This week we welcome Thad Norman from Hypercar Development joins us to talk about their insane 3 turbo compound McLarens.  Matt drove one of their cars several months back and came away thoroughly im…