The Smoking Tire

Two of our favorite guests, Jonny Lieberman and Carlos Lago of MOTOR TREND, show up in the most 'Murica vehicles ever and create one of the funniest episodes yet. Topics include super cars, new Ferra…

Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez joins us as he maks a quick trip to visit California from his new home state and Americas answer to the question "just how bad can things get?"; Florida. (Note: I lived th…

Today on the podcast, Road Kill Editor Elana Scherr!  She earned her stripes writing for HOT ROD, and now heads up the new entity that has become famous for totally bonkers car construction. She has …

Aaron Robinson, Senior Editor at Car and Driver, returns! He who battles Lamborghinis, talks to us about getting his pilots license, what to do when your radio fails, how long a vintage Lambo will ru…

This week we're joined by Venice local by way of the UK; Mr. Tony Rackley (aka Ferrari Tony).  Tony has lived one hell of a life and shares stories of emergency panamanian boat repairs, partying on t…

Its been a while but we're once again joined by Doug "The Bane of CarMax" DeMuro.  Doug arrives in the splendor of a Hyundai Tucson and regails is with tails of touring this great nation in his Aston…

Tom Morningstar Co-founded The Smoking Tire, shooter and editor (with others) of APEX: Story of the Hypercar, and producer of TUNED, returns!  Also, Nino Cutraro releases a rap album that he produced…

This week we're once again joined by Carlos Lago. Calos shares his thoughts on the Focus RS, GT350R, Camaro SS 1LE and the McLaren 570s. Matt's Mustang project has incurred yet another setback in the…

Fresh back from Burning Man Zack shares his stories from The Playa. Jonathon Klein joins us once again to share his story of a Tesla Model S atop Mt. Baldy. Finally we cover the tuner car shootout th…

This week we're joined by a man that has proven very popular in the gaming scene on YouTube Jay of JayzTwoCents.  Jay reviews all manner of high-end gaming hardware in the PC world but as many of his…

This week we're joined by old friend and TST alumni George "Motoman" Notaras. George shares his extensive travel log, his lust for a 427 C3 Corvette and his take on the new 718 Porsche Boxter and Cay…

This week Matt, Zack and I catch up on compound turbocharged McLarens, Huracans, wildfires and Jonathan Ward's new Icon Caprice. In the second half of the show Zack sits down with pro driver and /Dri…

AJ Gordon (formerly of The Petersen Automotive Museum) and Chris Fussner of MotorHistory.com join us to talk about how to buy a great cheap Porsche, AJ's future in vans, new BMWs, off-roading badly, …

On this episode we are joined by Paul Schmucker and Todd Deeken of Everyday Driver. These two are the most underrated team in automotive media, putting out excellent video reviews, and even two featu…

Fresh back from /Drive shoots Matt and Zack share what they can about that trip.  Luckily that includes a review of the new Bentley Bentayaga and some quality time in a little car known as the BMW M1…

The masked man, Carlos Lago, is back! He's returned I work at Motor Trend, and we celebrated his newly regained freedom of speech. GT350 or M2? Caymans, 240s, Camaro SSss, and more. 

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Dieter Heinz Kijora of HG Motorsports  joins us along with Patrick Stevenson. We do our usual thing but along the way Dieter shares the impressively deep background his family has in Souther Californ…

This week we're joined by Larry Chen (@driftfotos) of Speedhunters and friend of the show Spike Feresten (@spikeferesten) of Car Matchmaker.  This week we talk about Larry's experience traveling to t…

Once again we're joined by Tony Quiroga of Car And Driver. This week we cover the Fiata, fuel economy tests betwen a Hellcat, Ferrari F12 and a Sequoia, how best to avoid tickets if you happen to be …

This week Andrew Collins (@andr3wcollins) from Jalopnik joins us as Bring A Trailer auctions off Matt's DeLorean while we record the podcast. Additionally we review the new all-turbo non-turbo 911 li…