The Smoking Tire

This week we're joined in studio by Spike Feresten (@SpikeFeresten) host of Car Matchmaker on Esquire.  We cover Spike's deep love of Porsches, his time working with Jerry Seinfeld and cheating at gokart racing with David Letterman for the Late Show Team.  In addition we talk Pebble Beach, the spite of Ferrari, Barn Finds and Matt cracks the wheels on his Corvette for a 3rd time.

This week we're joined by Brendon McAleer (@brendan_mcaleer) of Canda, Road & Track, TTaC as well as some BBC stuff alongside his compatriot one Mr. Jack Baruth (@JackBaruth) also of Road & Track, TTaC.  This week we discuss the US Nissan Skyline market, Jack tells us about his time in a McLaren racecar and their 650S, we talk Detroit Auto Show, Ford GT, ATS-V, CTS-V, Boss 302 vs GT350, C7 vs C6 ZO6 and why a 996 track car makes very little sense. Also Matt got a moving violation on his bicycle.

This week we're joined by Travis Okulski (@tokulski) Editor at Jalopnik along with Jeff Glucker (@JGlucker) co-founder of Hooniverse.  Travis is in town for the Corvette Z06 launch and Jeff... well he was just killing time after recording a Hooniverse Podcast. With Travis' impending time in the Z06 we of course discuss that and the potential of its new 8 speed automatic...

Recorded just prior to Christmas, Matt is back from a cross country drive with his girlfriend the proud owner of a Lexus LS400 nearing 900,000 miles. Zack in the mean-time has taken up quad-copter camera duty while Thad has resorted to filling his Fiesta with race gas to make obscene power and I didn't do a damned thing other than work and make cookies. This week we had a Mustang Ecoboost in and we discuss that along with our usual mix of barely socially responsible nonsense.

This week Paul and Todd of Everyday Driver (YouTube | Podcast) drop by to talk about their new film Mid-Engines and Mountains. The new film highlights the fun and differences found in driving an Alfa 4C, Porsche Cayman and Lotus Elise through... well mountains. In addition the guys rolled in with a brand new Charger Hellcat and the new holy grail of track-rats the Camaro Z28...

This week we're joined by John Spar founder of Replay XD Cameras as well as our good friend Mike Musto (@MDMusto). We knew that John was responsible for  developing some seriously impressive camera hardware at Replay what we didn't know was that his father was one of the founders of B&M and that he grew up at the height of drag racing in the San Fernando Valley...

This week Jonathan Ward founder of Icon joins us. Most people know Icon for the absolutely insane attention to detail in their signature FJs and Broncos.  We get the story behind Jonathan's move from life as a working actor into the automotive world. The Icon order backlog is deep and for good reason as Jonathan outlines the great lengths he his wife and their crew go to ultimately producing a product with few equals in quality.

This week TST contributor Jonathon Klein (@Jonathon_Klein) is in town for the LA Auto Show and he joins us for our pre-Thanksgiving episode...

Fresh off the floor at the LA Auto Show Mike Spinelli (@Mikespin) and Roger Garbow (@RogerGarbow) join us. With the auto show in town we cover a lot of material including, the Mustang GT 350, Cadillac ATS-V, Mercedes AMG GT, Porsche 911 GTS, Jaguar F-Type, we discuss the basics of flat-plan crank V8s, Kia plies journalists with beer, Mullne makes a sad showing, Matt attempts to by a Skyline GT-R and Mike takes suggestions on what he should buy to replace his MR2.  

Once again we're joined by Mr. Aaron Gold (@AboutCars). This week Matt reviews the Polaris Slingshot, Aaron tells his about his time working on Top Gear, we talk diesel vs gas engines, Zack and Thad drove Local Motors Drift Trikes and we wrap up with some talk about flight simulators and aeronautics.