Apex Adjacent

You know it's true love when both of you find the exact same car option to be upsetting. And, Craigslist: can you buy things without being lightly murdered? TeamClearCoat investigates!

It's only the 4th episode, and we've already lost our minds: Bond villains, nipple clamp-wearing Land Rover owners, and hobo-sized butt prints are all covered...in the first 10 minutes. Somehow, we also cover a few rounds of FMK cars and segue into part 2 in our 679-part series, "We Feel Conflicted About Trucks and SUVs."

We all have our automotive happy place we retreat to when our car is broken. Unfortunately, there isn't much of a happy place for Volkswagen right now, but we kinda had to talk about it. A lot. And then there was the discussion about Dave's smashed-up genitals...we covered a lot of ground in this one.

Let's get one thing out of the way: Dave is an evil bastard when he puts together his FMK car challenges. He gives you a little sugar with an appealing car, and then smacks the hope right off your face with a terrible arbitrary twist. Yes, Ian is still upset at him for ruining his hypothetical car. But that's okay - Ian dashed Dave's dream of owning a Ferrari F355. We also talked about Jamie Kitman's brilliant piece in Automobile on why crossovers are all the rage right now (spoiler alert: Team Clear Coat is not a fan of this trend), Dave's gaming habits and Ian's fireproof undies.

Hello. Yes, this is the third version of our first podcast. When you run a show for over 4 years and then decide to change your name, you kind of want to give you folks that are coming in at episode 1 a heads up. So here we are. We're Ian and Dave and we're Apex Adjacent. We were/are TeamClearCoat for four years, but we're Apex Adjacent now. We love you.