The Smoking Tire

Jeff Segal has been a professional racing driver since his early 20s, racing Ferraris, BMWs, Maseratis, and now the new Acura NSXGT. He joined us while in town to race at the Long Beach Grand Prix, t…

In a rare Saturday morning podcast Bill Caswell drops by to catch up. Its been about a year since Bill had been on the show and we caught up on the life of North America's favorite rally nomad. Matt …

A rare ealry morning podcast brings Dax Shepard to the show to promoto CHiPs (out March 24).  Dax rolled up in an E63 wagon which of course instantly ingratiated him in the house that smoke, tires an…

Joined once again by Betim Berisha of BBI Autosport we talk all things Porsche, Matt's ailing Mustang, the eery calm of pro drivers, why 996 projects are a headache and deep suspension geekery.  Plus…

This week Thad and Tom are in town for some undisclosed business and we're joined by Aaron Gold (@AutoNerd).  Aaron and Matt are fresh off the Lexus LC 500 launch in Hawaii, the Tesla Model X is rife…

Today's guest: Marcus Vandenberg, from the YouTube car show Roads Untraveled. He gets to drive lots of awesome JDM cars we don't see here, including maniacally powerful swapped vehicles. We talk abou…

This week we're joined by Alex Bernstein (@Bernooo_1m) fomerly of 0-60 Magazine, Rides Magazine, European car Magazine and now man of general automtoive media indepdence (i.e. hustling various gigs).…

Guest this week: Armin Balg, a man who loves M3s, as long as they've been questionably maintained. Friend and exceptional /DRIVE camera operator, he has owned 3 E36 M3s, and recently bought an E46 th…

Joined this week by a Byron Bowers (@byronbowers) a Comedy Store regular by way of Atlanta along with a voice you should all be familiar with at this point Jon Klein (@jonathon_klein) of Automobile M…

As Matt prepares for his ski trip to reenact the tropes of every shoddily made 1980s teen ski dramas my co-host on Hooniverse and long time friend Jeff Glucker joins us for a little catch up session …

This week we are joined by enterneur and vintage Porsche icon, Magnus Walker. He send a trend for modifying  (and driving the crap out of) vintage 911s, and many have followed suit. Joining him is lo…

Long time friends of ours and frequent contributors Patrick Stevenson and Jason Connor join us to plug their new podcast The Motor Affair.  Given all of our familiarity we veer off track rather quick…

Rounding out the craptacular spectacle that was 2016 we're eased into the new year by Mike Tornabene (@Mike_Tornabene) of Bro Science and GNARPM. Many of you know Mike as Dom Mazzetti but as of late …

TST's own Thaddeus Brown has taken a vacation from his job filming in Dubai to return to the home base. After filming nearly half the content on /DRIVE and The Smoking Tire, he left to seek fame and …

On this episode we sit down with the director of "The Bug: Life and Times of the People's Car", Damon Ristau, to talk about the importance of the VW Beetle, why he made this movie, and why a terrible…

This week we're joined by Mischa Pollock of Drunk Tech Review.  Mischa has a new show on National Geographic; Machine Impossible where he travels the world sampling all manner of strange machinery in…

A significant chunk of the Jalopnik staff joins us while in town for the LA auto show while Matt delivers stories from South Africa.

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This time we're joined in studio by the Everday Driver crew along with a rotating cast of Jalopnik writers in town for the LA Auto Show. In addition we cover Paul and Todd's new film covering the evo…

This week's guest is David Patterson,  host of the YouTube channel thatdudeinblue! He started his channel and grew it organically, testing cars, attending events, and throwing wrenches. Now he's buil…

We're joined by Sam (@SeenThruGlass) the man behind the Seen Through Glass YouTube channel. Sam shares a bit about his extended stay here in the states, what it's like producing a YouTube channel fro…