The Smoking Tire

Tony Quiroga is a Senior Editor at Car and Driver magazine, and secret funny person. He and his team at C/D just published their "Lightning Lap" comparison, where they take some of this years best dri...

20 Sep 20171h 42min

This podcast is about bad cars, weird cars, and LS-swapped 911s. Our guest is Tyler Hoover, an automotive journalist who has made a name for himself by acquiring a vast collection of...odd cars, or "h...

13 Sep 20171h 51min

In this episode we are joined by automotive journalist Ryan ZumMallen, staff writer at Trucks.com, as well as a contributor for Road &Track, Car and Driver, and Autobytel. Ryan and Matt talk about the...

6 Sep 20171h 25min

Magnus Walker, everyone's favorite Porsche enthusiast stops by The Smoking Tire studio on the tail end of his world tour to promote his new book, "Dirt Don't Slow you Down," available on Amazon. We ta...

30 Aug 20171h 49min

Legendary tuner John Hennessey has been in the horsepower business for over 25 years. From humble beginnings modifying the Mitsubishi 3000GT to making himself known with the world's fastest street Vip...

23 Aug 20171h 53min

Larry Kosilla is one of Matt's oldest friends; they grew up together in Westchester, NY, and went to middle school and high school together. They began the car industry together, founding the New York...

16 Aug 20171h 44min

In this episode we are joined by Joey Seely, formerly of BBI Autosport and founder of E-Motion Engineering, a boutique Porsche build shop here in SoCal. Joey is a motorsport engineer, builder of the L...

9 Aug 20171h 58min

In this episode of the podcast, Matt and Jonathon Klein discuss Jon's recent adventures driving short-track dirt sprint cars, his broken Volkswagen Golf R, off-roading Model T's, strategies for gettin...

2 Aug 20171h 21min