The Smoking Tire

By Matt Farah & Zack Klapman

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Matt Farah, Zack Klapman, Chris Hayes, and Thad Brown sit down with automotive icons, pro drivers, comedians and other friends to discuss automotive industry news, racing, projects and whatever else comes to mind.For video test drives and reviews, go toTheSmokingTire.comorwww.youtube.com/thesmokingtireRentour movie, where we find out if some bad CraigsList cars can cross an entire US State, off-road!www.thesmokingtire.com/film

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Justin Bell is a racing driver, producer, and host of The Torque Show. He won the 1997 FIA GT2 Championship, the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans' GT2 class, and raced for Saab, Peugeot, Porsche, BMW, Dodge and General Motors. ...

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10.17.2019 Justin Bell! (Racing driver, The Torque Show) Justin Bell is a racing driver, producer, and host of The Torque Show. He won the 1997 FIA GT2 Championship, the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans' GT2 class, and raced for Saab, Peugeot, Porsche, BMW, Dodge and General Motors. ...
10.15.2019 Matt and Zack - Lambo Fest and Spyders What is Lamborghini Fest? What was there? Matt is back from the 2019 Lamborghini Fest, picked has a the new Porsche Boxster Spyder, and we get some interesting Q&A.; This show is also a video: https://youtu.be/iZL1pjGilH4 Follow us! T: @thesmokingtire ...
10.10.2019 TST CREW SHOW - To Exocet or to i8? Matt has been driving the BMW i8 Roadster and it's been "interesting". We talk about performance hybrids, the hamstringer i3, why Miatas should lose 1000lbs, and answer a lot of questions! This show is also a video: https://youtu.be/YhIIMLHwoZo Follow us! ...
10.08.2019 Comedian Chris Porter! Chris Porter is a hilarious stand-up comedian who has appeared all over TV including Last Comic Standing. His special "Ugly And Angry" on Amazon Prime is one of my favorites of all time, and we just caught his newer one, ...
10.03.2019 Automotive Event Planners Aimee Shackleford / Johnny Valencia Aimee Shackleford and Johnny Valencia are the minds behind some of the coolest events and most popular rallies. As automotive event organizers, if there are crwods and supercars there, they probably have a hand in it. They're here to talk ...
10.02.2019 Crew Show: All about PCOTY We're back from 2 weeks of traveling and there's a lot to talk about. Matt went to Germany and then met up with Zack at Road & Track's "Performance Car of the Year" showdown, where they drove over a dozen ...
09.24.2019 Remembering Chef Carl Ruiz Our good friend Chef Carl Ruiz of The Food Network, La Cubana NYC Restaurant, the Opie Radio Podcast and countless other ventures, suddenly passed away over the weekend. While we are all reeling from his death, I want to take ...
09.19.2019 Bozi Taterevic (CREW CHIEF, MECHANIC, WRITER) Bozi Tatarevic has an amazing life, and life story. He is a crew chief, mechanic, dealer, tuner, flipper, fixer, racecraft specialist, and automotive twitter philosopher. He has written for Jalopnik, R&T;, and Hagerty. And how he got there is amazing. ...
09.17.2019 Andrew Collins (JALOPNIK) Andrew Collins is the Reviews Editor for Jalopnik.com, and their resident off-road/truck expert. Read Andrew's articles here: https://kinja.com/andrewpcollins This show is also a video: https://youtu.be/zQtg4YtL4WM Follow us! T: @thesmokingtire @zackklapman IG: @thesmokingtire @fakezackklapman @andrewatlarge NEW SHIRTS! https://www.blipshift.com/tst
09.12.2019 TST CREW SHOW! Matt, Zack, and Vinny Matt has a Ferrari 812 Superfast, Zack is back from driving on an aircraft carrier, and Vinny is selling a car. PLUS, lot's of your questions! This show is also a video: https://youtu.be/13nuG51YGRM Follow us! T: @thesmokingtire @zackklapman IG: @thesmokingtire ...
09.10.2019 Legendary Dir. Jeff Zwart & Jennifer Nicole of PEC Jeff Zwart is an award-winning photographer, cinematographer, and the Second Unit Director (that means the car stuff) for the new film 'The Art of Racing in the Rain." Jennifer Nicole is one of our oldest "car" friends, going way back ...
09.05.2019 Jonny Lieberman of MOTOR TREND Jonny Lieberman is a senior editor at Motor Trend, and the host of Head2Head on Motor Trend TV. He just returned from the Pebble Beach Concours, and certainly has stories. Watch this show! https://youtu.be/GW8LsRSKcx0 Follow us!T: @thesmokingtire @zackklapman @mt_lovermanIG: @thesmokingtire ...
09.03.2019 Bull Run memories - Andy Duncan Andy Duncan is a television producer, bar & nightclub owner, and the founder of the Bullrun Rally, which Matt and TST participated in four times. We haven't seen each other in about 4 years, so there should be stories. Watch ...
08.29.2019 Lotus' Head of Design Russell Carr!! Russell Carr has been the Head of Vehicle Design for Lotus since 2014, but before that, he designed the 2000 model year facelift for the Esprit as well! He designed the Evora, the more recent variants of which are among ...
08.27.2019 DoctaM3 DoctaM3 (Cody) is a real doctor, YouTuber, traveler, broadcaster, and hardcore Lamborghini enthusiast. Today begins Monterey Car Week, so we're talking about all that goodness and the state of LA car culture after this weekend's shows! Check out Cody's channel! ...
08.22.2019 Stanceworks/Proto Machine Mike Burroughs is a fabricator who made his name with his company, Stanceworks, building incredible cars out of rusy shells, often using the rust in the aesthetic. His wide-body BMW went viral after SEMA. Now he has a new company, ...
08.20.2019 Kyle Conner (Cross-country EV record holder) Kyle Conner drove his Tesla Model 3 long range from New York to Redondo Beach in a record-setting 45 hours 10 min. He holds the record for the fastest trans-continental drive in an electric car on the original Cannonball Route. ...
08.20.2019 Kyle Connor (Cross-country EV record holder) Kyle Connor drove his Tesla Model 3 long range from New York to Redondo Beach in a record-setting 48 hours 10 min. He holds the record for the fastest trans-continental drive in an electric car on the original Cannonball Route. ...
08.15.2019 Armored Cars w/ Peter Blaber Peter Blaber is the CEO of Add Armor, a company that can add defense systems to just about any car. Whether it's bulletproof glass and doors, to pepper spray and sound canons, we got into what makes material so strong, ...
08.13.2019 RADWOOD's Art and Layne! RADWOOD is arguably the greatest car show of our time and Art and Lane are two of the founding members of the event. RADWOOD features cars from the 80s and 90s, but it's more than that. It's a costume show, ...
08.08.2019 Artist Tristan Eaton Tiston Eaton is a multi-talented artist. He once designed a crazy wrap for Matt's Mini Cooper. Before that he was a graffiti artist. And since then he has designed toys and graphics for famous companies like Kid Robot, sold paintings ...
08.08.2019 Artist Tiston Eaton Tiston Eaton is a multi-talented artist. He once designed a crazy wrap for Matt's Mini Cooper. Before that he was a graffiti artist. And since then he has designed toys and graphics for famous companies like Kid Robot, sold paintings ...
08.06.2019 Racing Legend Scott Pruett! Scott Pruett is a racing legend who has won in some of the fastest cars ever. He's raced in Indy Car, NASCAR, prototypes, Sports Cars, and IMSA. If anyone is a driver and racer, he is. Read all about Scott: ...
08.01.2019 Off-road Champion Justin Peck Justin Peck is an off-road racer, public speaker, and mental health advocate. He talks to us about racing, crashing, one-armed fist fights, Baja, crosskarts, and how his battle with bipolar disorder had a hand in his career. http://www.justinpeck.com/ WATCH this ...
07.30.2019 Elana Scherr and the C8 Corvette Elana Scherr is one of our favorite people, and a car nut to the core. She's built engines, fixed cars, daily drove a classic Challenger, buys weird trucks, written for Hot Rod, ran Roadkill Magazine, and now writes for Hargerty. ...
07.25.2019 Road and Track Travis Okulski is Editor in Chief of Road and Track, and Kyle Kinard works for him. Travis tells us about driving a McLaren F1 race car, special BMWs, and what we think of the new Corvette C8. Kyle tells us ...
07.23.2019 Crew show It's a TST show! Zack is back from Morocco, where the food is good and the cops are friendly, and Matt tells us what it's like driving a SHERP over EVERYTHING. Plus, we answer TONS of questions! Follow us!T: @thesmokingtire ...
07.18.2019 Betim Berisha (BBI Autosport) Betim Berish is the co-founder of BBI Autosport, which specializes in building high-performance Porsches for the street and track. They just broke the Pikes Peak Hillclimb Record for the Time Attack class, by a massive 14 seconds. Betim is here ...
07.16.2019 Ryan Zumallen Ryan Zumallen is a long-time automotive journalist. He is the author of the book, "Slow car Fast", available for pre-order at https://www.carrarabooks.com/store/slow-car-fast-ebook Follow us!T: @thesmokingtire @zackklapman @zoomy575mIG: @thesmokingtire @fakezackklapman @zoomy575m New Shirts: https://www.blipshift/com/tst Watch this show! https://youtu.be/o_wHYntw2AU
07.11.2019 Chris Cantle and Justin Dawes (BIKES AND CARS AND BIKES) If it's 2-wheeled adventures, these two have probably done it. Chris Cantle is a long-time automotive and motorcycle journalist, friend, and Editor in Chief of Motorcyclist Magazine. More on that in the show. Justin Dawes is a staff writer at ...
07.08.2019 Greg "Opie" Hughes & Chef Carl Ruiz Watch the show! https://youtu.be/7ZFZrIU5wPI
06.27.2019 HAGERTY'S Aaron Robinson & KBB's Lyn Woodward Aaron Robinson is the Editor-at-Large of Hagerty Magazine, the beautiful bi-monthly publication available to Hagerty 'Drive Club' members. Lyn Woodward is a journalist and presenter for Kelley Blue Book. These two went to the 75th Anniversary of the Normandy invasion ...
06.25.2019 KBB's Michael Harley Michael Harley is the executive editor of Kelley Blue Book's car review division. In the past he has written reviews for Autoblog, Autobytel, AutoWeek, and many more. We discuss the new Bentley GTC, Aston Martin, Turbo vs. NA Porsche's on ...
06.20.2019 Lyn Woodward (Kelley Blue Book) Lyn Woodward is an automotive journalist that has written for all the big mags, traveled the world, and has an amazing story about off-roading. She currently reviews cars for Kelley Blue Book's YouTube channel. Check out Lyn's work on the ...
06.18.2019 Dan Neil Returns! (Wall Street Journal's "Rumble Seat") Dan Neil is a well of knowlede and ridiculous stories, and this show isn't one to miss. He pays the bills writing about cars for the Wall Street Journal. He's also the only person to ever win a Pulitzer Prize ...
06.13.2019 FORZA's Justin Osmer Ever wondered how cars get into FORZA? Justin Osmer manages FORZA's partnerships of all kinds, from tires to car companies to media companies to LEGO. He's here to talk about FORZA Horizon 4's new LEGO pack, which lets you drive ...
06.11.2019 JALOPNIK's Kristen Lee Kristen Lee is a staff writer at Jalopnik, an owner of a C36 AMG, and a co-host of /DRIVE on NBC Sports. She's written for a variety of other magazines, and pulls no punches when it comes to criticizing the ...
06.06.2019 Matt and Zack (Italy, Italian rental cars, BMW M8, GT500s, and more) Matt is back from his Italian honeymoon and has stories about cheeses, wine, Alfa rental cars, and cats that killed Caesar. Zack drove a GT500, a supercharged RAV4, and met the police. Then they talk about car news, the BMW ...
05.30.2019 Alex Roy (The/DRIVE, AI, Human Driving Association) Alex Roy is a brilliant, hilarious, exccentric fixture in the automotive world. He is a an expert in autonomous cars, and broke several long-distance driving records including shortest drive time from NY to LA, and shortest drive time from LA ...
05.28.2019 Jonny and Jethro (MOTOR TREND Head2Head) Jonny Lieberman and Jethro Bovingdon are long-standing auto journalists and the hosts of Motor Trend's "Head 2 Head". They travel the world driving the best cars on Earth. This show is also a video! https://youtu.be/rezM7n_yeB0 Follow us!T: @thesmokingtire @zackklapman @mt_loverman ...
05.23.2019 Jon Ward! (CEO of ICON) Jonathan Ward is a visionary, builder, and tinkerer. He helms ICON, legendary builders of bespoke 4x4s and fascinating restorations. He married a Rolls Royce and a CTS-V. He puts airplane visors in trucks. And all of it works flawlessy, and ...
05.21.2019 Carlos Lago! (Edmunds) Carlos Lago is a long-time journalist and very fast driver, who is good at the oversteers. He drove the new Supra, and has a lot of thoughts. He's currently the Manager of Editorial Content at Edmunds. NEW SHIRTS!: https://www.blipshift.com/tst This ...
05.16.2019 Matt and Zack! (Return of the Supra) It's a TST crew show. Matt and Zack debate the merits of the new (and old) Supra, talk about where it fits in the market, and why it isn't an LC500. We also discuss off-roading, lake beds, drifting, Zack driving ...
05.14.2019 Jon Guzik (Borrow, Automobile, Hollywood Reporter) Jon Guzik has written about cars and everything else, for a long time. He talks to us about wearing a suit at a home office, crazy press launches, and his new company, Borrow, which arranges short-term leases of EVs at ...
05.07.2019 MEGA Supra Launch Podcast!! EVERYONE is in this one. Matt is at the Supra launch and sits at the bar with: Savage Geese (Mark), Engineering Explained (Jason Fenske), Paul and Todd of Everyday Driver, Jalopnik EIC Patrick George, and Jim Resnick. Follow them, watch ...
05.03.2019 Alan Macey - (Manual Gearbbox Preservation Society) Alan Macey thinks about cars differently than we do. After graduating from Art Center of Pasadena (arguably the best school for automotive design in the world), he interned at VW, and then worked as a designer at Jeep. He sees ...
04.30.2019 TST Podcast #425 - THE (POST) WEDDING SHOW w/ Matt, Hanna, Zack, Thad, Vinny & Tim We're back from Matt's wedding! We talk about the wedding, Thad is here from Dubai, Matt's wife joins us and tells us hilarious things about him, toilet paper mishaps, and we answer your questions. This show is also a video: ...
04.12.2019 TLG Auto Owner Marco Gerace Marco Gerace is the second-generation owner of TLG Auto in North Hollywood, specializing in air-cooled Porsches. Also, Matt drove a Manual-Transmission Ferrari 430 Scuderia and the Acura RDX Check out TLG Auto: https://tlgauto.com/ Watch this show on YouTube! https://youtu.be/jBBEYvZNhkg Follow ...
04.09.2019 Vaughn Gittin Jr! Vaughn Gittin Jr is a Formula D and D1 champion, and one of the funnest people around. He won his first Formula Drift title in 2010, and has more tandem battle victories than any other driver in 10 years of ...
04.04.2019 Brett Berk (Auto journalist) Brett Berk's fascinating story has landed him pretty high up the automotive journalist food chain. He only has to drive the finest cars, he (admits) he isn't that fast on a track, and when it all began, he was a ...

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The Smoking Tire episodes:

Justin Bell! (Racing driver, The Torque Show)

Matt and Zack - Lambo Fest and Spyders

TST CREW SHOW - To Exocet or to i8?

Comedian Chris Porter!

Automotive Event Planners Aimee Shackleford / Johnny Valencia

Crew Show: All about PCOTY

Remembering Chef Carl Ruiz

Bozi Taterevic (CREW CHIEF, MECHANIC, WRITER)

Andrew Collins (JALOPNIK)

TST CREW SHOW! Matt, Zack, and Vinny

Legendary Dir. Jeff Zwart & Jennifer Nicole of PEC

Jonny Lieberman of MOTOR TREND

Bull Run memories - Andy Duncan

Lotus' Head of Design Russell Carr!!

DoctaM3

Stanceworks/Proto Machine

Kyle Conner (Cross-country EV record holder)

Kyle Connor (Cross-country EV record holder)

Armored Cars w/ Peter Blaber

RADWOOD's Art and Layne!

Artist Tristan Eaton

Artist Tiston Eaton

Racing Legend Scott Pruett!

Off-road Champion Justin Peck

Elana Scherr and the C8 Corvette

Road and Track

Crew show

Betim Berisha (BBI Autosport)

Ryan Zumallen

Chris Cantle and Justin Dawes (BIKES AND CARS AND BIKES)

Greg "Opie" Hughes & Chef Carl Ruiz

HAGERTY'S Aaron Robinson & KBB's Lyn Woodward

KBB's Michael Harley

Lyn Woodward (Kelley Blue Book)

Dan Neil Returns! (Wall Street Journal's "Rumble Seat")

FORZA's Justin Osmer

JALOPNIK's Kristen Lee

Matt and Zack (Italy, Italian rental cars, BMW M8, GT500s, and more)

Alex Roy (The/DRIVE, AI, Human Driving Association)

Jonny and Jethro (MOTOR TREND Head2Head)

Jon Ward! (CEO of ICON)

Carlos Lago! (Edmunds)

Matt and Zack! (Return of the Supra)

Jon Guzik (Borrow, Automobile, Hollywood Reporter)

MEGA Supra Launch Podcast!!

Alan Macey - (Manual Gearbbox Preservation Society)

TST Podcast #425 - THE (POST) WEDDING SHOW w/ Matt, Hanna, Zack, Thad, Vinny & Tim

TLG Auto Owner Marco Gerace

Vaughn Gittin Jr!

Brett Berk (Auto journalist)

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