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Coming directly from E3 Dan Greenawalt of Turn 10 studios swings by to share the details on Forza Horizon 3.
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This week Matt bids a farewell to his R32 Skyline, we deride picky DeLorean owners as Matt's car goes up on Bring a Trailer, discuss Top Gear and review the base 997.2 Porsche Carrera.
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This week Larry Webster of Hagerty joins us to talk Pebble Beach, racing and 911s. Larry starts off with tails of an E46 procrastination special, shares his story of moving from engineering to journ…
Travis Okulski (@tokulski) of Road and Track joins us as he makes his way through California in a glorious new Aston Martin. Matt prepares for a possible sale of his Skyline and Delorean whilst Zack …
Gracing us with his presence once again, regular guest and Motor Trend ambassador Jonny Lieberman joins us on mic. This week Jonny shares his thoughs on the R8 V10+, the 488 GTB is lavished with prai…
This week we're joined by Joe Walser the man behind the restoration of the Time Machine (DeLorean) from Back to the Future. Matt fully indulges in the most obscure details of Joe's adventure in resto…
We're joined once again by everybody's favorite fabricator, off-road racing, world speed record holder Jessi Combs. Jessi shares her tales of Baja, King of Hammers and some details about I Am The Rea…
Jonathan Ward of Icon joins us once again; this time in the newly built Chevy Thrifmaster Derelict. We of course talk about what is cooking at Icon these days but Jonathan also fills us in on his cu…
Our old friend Aaron Gold joins us once again, this time we almost sort-of get on the topic of the automotive industry. In the mean time, Aaron shares stories from when he worked for Gale Banks, the…
Our old friend Vinny Russo now of Maserati stops by for a rare afternoon podcast. Matt gives us his take on the new 718 Boxster after a trip to Portugal with Porsche, Vinny dishes out info on the ne…
Joining us this week is Jason Fenske (@JasonFenske13) but you guys know him best as the guy on Engineering Explained on YouTube. Jason gives us his background story, we discuss the growth of the chan…
No it's not. However we do have Andrew Collins (@andr3wcollins) and Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez (@APiDAOnline) -both of Jalopnik- in the studio this week after their Easter Jeep Safari adventure. We …
Returning from the forbidden zone; Carlso Lago (@CarlosLago) joins us alongside Joe Carioti (@JoeQCar) of ShoutEngine and Just Cool Enough. Matt and Zack spent some quality time with the new GT350R,…
Taking a break from drop-bears, home built rally cars, and rogue Darbys this week we're joined by Andrew Lamb and Caswal Parker of Camshaft Sofware the company behind Automation. If your memory is u…
What do you do after you've done countless road rallies and ran a successful exotic car rental company? You do crazy things in cheap beater cars. That's what our friend, Rob Ferretti, does. We couldn…
Dan Neil (Wall Street Journal, "The Car Show") and Alex Roy ( Record holder, author, and editor-at-large of The/DRIVE) sit down to have a very frank discussion about how to make a movie about the Ca…
Bill Caswell returns! The man who built turned $500 car into a WRC legend, and lives a life that fits his website (Buildraceparty.com), tells stories of sleeping in a car at the Monaco Grand Prix, ho…
We are once again joined by our good friend Betim Berisha of BBI Autosport, to talk Porsches, Mustangs, and crashing cars. Betim shares his knowledge on building large displacement Porsches, the ridi…
This week Matt Farah, Zack Klapman and Chris Hayes catch up on the news and press cars. Notably we discuss Matt LeBlanc joining the Top Gear cast, Matt and Zack share their experience with the ATS-V…
This week we're joined by former BBC Top Gear Sript Wizard (Supervisor) Richard Porter (@SniffPetrol)! His new book, And On That Bombshell, chronicles his 13 years working on Top Gear. We tell him ab…