The Chat Garage's Podcast

This episode landed with the fun Renault AIR4 drone, but covered plenty of other topics such as the Fisker Ocean in its final shape, the next Kia Niro and Xiaomi planning to enter the automotive industry. Smaller update on the latest Miata and Alpine, but the main stage is taken by Nissan with their 4 brand new concepts to introduce their future EV plans!

While the BMW M4 GT4 has been presented and the GT3 version was introduced to Assetto Corsa Competizione, Tex has bought new cars for Assetto Corsa during the Black Friday, bringing to life some Fia GT vibes from early 2000. We could not avoid paying a tribute somehow to an iconic figure such as Sir Frank Williams. We covered some of the best Williams F1 cars in history. Just to conclude, an electric Lancia Delta will join the next season of RallyCross and for some reason John likes it!

The following is an episode dedicated to the Mercedes SL, a car with a long history. Starting as a race car in the 50’s became one of the most iconic GT cars in the world, and with the presentation of the latest iteration we thought it was worth dedicating a special episode to this special car!

The recently presented Kia EV9 and Hyundai Seven Concept remind us that the 80's vibe is still full steam. We don’t know what to make of the BMW direction anymore but we give a shot to the recently presented Audi RS3. Listen until the end because the cherry on the pie of the episode is the new Ferrari Daytona SP3. What a car!

If WRC came to an end, whith Toyota winning the title with Sébastien Ogier, F1 is more open than ever! only 8 points between Hamilton and Verstappen, but the last race also gave us an amazing podium for Alonso! Between major topics we also touched a mysterious Formula made by BMW only for SimRacing and some Formula E market maneuver.

In this episode John and Tex went through a discussion about the good and bad details on cars nowadays. It’s easy to find fake grills, fake carbon fiber, fake exhaust, screens everywhere… But, every now and then some cars came out with brilliant ideas and solutions!

First we took a look inside the Radford Type 62-2 with its amazing interior, then the brand new one-off made in Maranello, the Ferrari BR20. We take a look as well at the latest Mercedes SL just before getting disappointed by Acura and Lancia name choice. Closing the episode as usual with some restomods, with a deeper dive into the Hyundai Grandeur.

With the race at Valencia for MotoGP, not only the championship comes to an end. Valentino Rossi had his last race, Ducati took the full podium and Honda is in more trouble than ever with both riders injured! F1 gave us a reminder on why Hamilton deserved all his 7th title, with an amazing race in Brazil, where he fought back all the problems! In the end we had a glimpse on what will be next race cars from BMW, with the LMDh, and the ‘vette with the Z06 GT3.

What is the feeling behind the wheel of a Ferrari? Tex will explain his experience driving a 458 Italia on the Adria Racetrack, next time John has to do that but with what car? While Tex has ridden a Husqvarna Svartpilen, John tried to figure out the differences between an ICE powered kart and an EV one!

We started the episode with a scary and not so eye-pleasing “ultracar” from Greece, the Spyros Panopoulos Chaos. We cover as well the new Corvette C8 Z06 presented at SEMA and the official Bugatti-Rimac partnership explained. Not to forget, Aston with the first happy client of the Valkyrie, spy shot of the next Mini and two restomods! The Helm E-Type and Ford Sierra RS Cosworth Gr.A Continuation!