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Sam Mitani is a Japanese-American writer and author, best known for his work as International Editor for Road & Track magazine, where he spent 22 years, and as the author of his debut novel, The Prototype.

His responsibilities as an automotive journalist included covering and test driving cars from around the world. He also wrote a monthly column for XaCAR, and regularly contributed to Best Car, two of Japan’s most popular auto magazines. His limited-run car magazine, called SPEED, won him a Maggie Award in 2004. Mitani also appeared as a guest host for the Best Motoring DVD series and has an Emmy Award to his credit for co-hosting for KABC’s Eye on LA television series.

As part of his job, he participated in a number of adventures, including the Dakar Rally in 1996, two stints in the Malaysian jungle in the Trans Peninsula Rally, the Baja 1000 and in 2010, he set a speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in a Suzuki Kizashi, going 203.73 mph. The run qualified him to join the exclusive 200-MPH Club.

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Joe Scarbo is a Mechanical Engineer and founder of Scarbo Performance. Prior to Scarbo Performance Joe had worked as a mechanical designer for a number of racing teams and performance vehicle manufacturers including Volkswagen Motorsports, specializing mostly in complex systems and chassis design. However what you might be more familiar with is the SVF1 which Joe was the mastermind behind which is accurately modeled after a 1967 Ferrari F312 Formula 1 racer.

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Luke Munnell is an L.A.-based automotive and motorsports photographer, writer and content producer, with more than a decade of editorial and advertising experience. Before venturing out on his own he worked as a social media manager and content producer for Mazda USA. Prior to that he served as a technical editor and associate editor for Source Interlink Media (TEN – The Enthusiast Network), working on automotive print titles like Import Tuner, Super Street and Modified magazines.

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James talks to Nico, James, Jacob and Andy from Race Service.

Race Service is a global network of artists, builders, creators, and drivers united by a common passion for the world of motorsports and creating content. Part of the original team at DonutMedia, Race Service's custom content leads them to an artful new wave of car culture for new and existing motorsports fans.

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Q by Aston Martin is a unique service that turns your personal vision into reality, using your ideas to shape the ultimate Aston Martin. Bringing distinctive design touches to your Aston Martin. This selection of exclusive trim and enhancements can be added at the point of specification and installed and hand-finished at the Gaydon headquarters.

Stuart McIntosh is head of VIP Sales in the US and can help you commission a truly bespoke, individual sports car taking you on a journey that involves a personal collaboration with the Aston Martin design team.

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Stephan Papadakis first quenched his thirst for speed on the streets and local tracks of California in a modified unibody Civic hatchback. Papadakis then shifted focus to the management of his motorsport business Papadakis Racing, Inc. and, under his stewardship, the team has shown impressive results — earning three Formula DRIFT championship titles.

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Randall Smock is the project leader for exterior design at Honda R&D Americas, Inc. (HRA), and is responsible for design concept direction and product development. Smock led the exterior design of the 2019 Acura RDX, the inaugural vehicle to mark the new design language direction for the Acura brand.

Smock has made many contributions to Acura design since joining HRA in 2001, such as being the lead designer on the 2008 Acura TSX, 2012 Acura RDX and 2014 Acura RLX.

Smock earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Transportation Design from the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. He currently teaches at the ArtCenter sattelite studio at the Petersen Automotive Museum. 

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Rod Emory takes perfectly good Porsches and makes them even better by making them safer and faster than they were when they rolled out of the factory. His company Emory Motorsports makes two kinds of cars: those that look stock but are not, and those that don’t look stock. The former are called Outlaws and the latter are called Emory Specials.

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Lyn Woodward is a super talented writer and on-camera personality who is currently working for Kelly Blue Book. She's done work for Motor1, Automobile, The Drive and others and she rips around LA in a gorgeous white Datsun roadster. She's pretty much the coolest lady we know and we're thrilled that she decided to sit down and talk about her career, her love of Porsche 356s and the problem with YouTube commenters.

Lucky number 13! Who'd have thought we'd get this far? Just kidding. We can't be stopped.

Anyway, this week James and Kyle trek to Torrance, Calif. to chat with Jackie Birdsall. Jackie is a brilliant senior engineer at Toyota and is one of the evil geniuses behind the development of Toyota's fuel cell vehicle technologies aka the Mirai (but not the design, so calm down). She's a dyed-in-the-wool car weirdo and a generally excellent conversationalist.