The Smoking Tire

We talk Volvo wagons, respiratorily challenged felines, drift school, Focus RS and a myriad of repairs while Thad is mid-flight to Dubai.

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Naoki Kobayashi of Drift 101 join us this week alongside our friend Jason Connor (@TerminatorConn) from Hooniverse + Cammed & Tubbed.  Naoki is an instructor at Drift 101 and shares his insights in t…

Fresh back from Drift 101 Matt Farah and Thaddeus Brown share their experience, Jeff Glucker (@JGlucker) drops by to swap stories, Zack Klapman accidentally does everything wrong while getting pulled…

This week we're closing out 2015 with comedian and proprietor of http://www.racingjunk.com/ Ralph Guerra (@RalphComedy). Ralph arrives in his newly purchased Taurus SHO, we talk a bit about RacingJun…

This week we're joined by Nick from VF Engineering makers of absolutely silly supercharger kits. You should be familiar with their work as we've released videos on a few of their cars over the years.…

Returning to the podcast Jonny Lieberman (@mt_loverman) of Motor Trend joins us.  This week we have the great G-Wagon debate of 2015 over the Mercedes G63 AMG, Jonny attends the Audi A4 launch, Matt …

In what is hands down the biggest episode of the podcast ever we're joined by many of our friends to celebrate 4 years of work and 200 published episodes.

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Mike Spinelli is back in California for the Aston Martin full-line drive and he graces us with his presence on the podcast yet again. Matt returned home to find his Vanquish with a new transmission, …

This week; long time friends of the show Paul and Todd of Everyday Driver join us once again. Matt decied it was a good idea to take a G63 AMG out on the track at Buttonwillow to see if he could some…

This week we bring you an onslaught of automotive industry asshattery, with too many damned people in the room.  We're joined by Mike Spinelli, Travis Okulski, Brendan McAleer and Austin Cabot. Mike …

Fresh back from SEMA Jonathon Klein (@jonathon_klein) and I give the guys our take on the 2015 show, Matt gives us his take on the new Miata, Jeff Glucker leaves us with his impressions of the 2016 C…

This week Matt reviews the Cobb Ecoboost Mustang as well as their 911 Turbo, Zack returns with stories of Mexico city and I brace myself for the horrors of SEMA.

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Recording on Back to the Future Day Matt arrives somewhat annoyed at the prevelance of commentary on his DeLorean. Matt's annoyance is tempered with a recent to the FIRM rally school in Florida where…

The million mile LS400 has its first major failure, Matt covets 2 stroke mopeds and an R33 Skyline, a 740 Horsepower Golf is launched, Zack goes offroading in an E30 w/ Musto and Thad and I dread an …

This week your ears will be assaulted with a cacaphony of grunts, chode jokes and literary references as we welcome back our friends Mr. Regular and The Roman of Regular Car Reviews (@RegularCars).  …

This week Matt and I sit down and attempt to escape our hectic schedules and catch up a bit. Matt got some seat time in a GT350 he also had a Lexus RC F (which we've both become big fans of) I've bee…

This week we're joined by JF Musial (@JFMusial) and we're recording on my backup analog rig. Matt reviews the Rezvani Beast, we talk about the VW diesel scandal, we cover the ATS-V, the impending ris…

This week we're once again joined by Jonathon Klein (@Jonathon_Klein) of Boldride.co as Matt and Thad return with stories from the latest /Drive shoot in Japan.  Matt got to spend some quality time w…

It's Forza 6 launch day and the the guys are back from Texas.  This week Matt and I attended the Hoonigan Donut Shop opening day, we ponder the differences between ginger based beverages, Matt drives…

Thad, Matt and I sit down prior to their departure to film the season finalé for /Drive.  Matt and I give updates on the Mustand and Fiesta projects respectively, we discuss suspenion at length touch…