The Smoking Tire

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 Coupe, and we talk about what dictates a V6 exhaust note. Additionally Matt dynos the Mustang, takes a G500 off road and spends some time in a Porsche 928.

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 about Californian methamphetamime production, and he tells us all about how Top Gear was made, including Richard Hammond's skills at entering strip clubs.Click here to get your copy of And On That Bombshell 

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

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 teaching people to drift and the wide array of students they work with.  

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 over in a circa 1979 Chevy van and we all lament the cesspool that is the Autoblog comment section

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 RacingJunk, cover Netflix binging on Making a Murderer, Matt gets the Mustang back from its latest round of repairs, I give up a little info on what the Mosler Twinstar was actually like and Ralph shares stories about doing bad standup in strip clubs.  

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.  However Matt just got some hands on time with their supercharged Huracan kit and it's more-or-less b@tshit insane. In addition we hit on a bunch of supercharger tech, Nick fills us in on some of their other product offerings and we answer listener questions......

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 reviews the new turbocharged Ferrari California and VF Engineering Supercharged Lamborghini Huracan, Jonny relays his love for the 2016 Camaro SS and we all wax poetically on California canyons and how not to drive an Lexus RC-F in them.

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.

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, we swap stories from the premier of Apex and we give a quick review of "And On That Bombshell".