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The Smoking Tire

Aaron Robinson & Tony Quiroga (Car & Driver)

The Smoking Tire

Zack Klapman, Matt Farah

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4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2014

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

This week our good friends from Car and Driver Aaron Robinson and Tony Quiroga stop by to regale us with tales of unfettered access and actual production budgets. The topics are many and varied this week; we cover Aaron's time in Belfast along with his new F-Type farm, Tony arrives with his recently acquired 993 Porsche, Matt buys an IRS for his Fox Body project, and of course we cover all the interesting stuff coming out of Geneva Motor Show this year.

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0:00.0

And we're live. Yeah, we are. We're live. This is live. This is live. We're listening to now, sir. It's the smoking tire podcast. That's right.

0:08.4

That and I have had a long day of driving mini vans all over California. And so we have some

0:14.8

9 and a half percent beer and we are now good to go. Yes. I

0:19.8

Can smell the excitement. Yeah. Oh joining us tonight are two men with glasses.

0:26.1

Yes. And an eerily similar pair. I don't have another beer, man. This is the

0:34.0

number two. Oh, from car and driver, Mr. Aaron Robinson and Tony Carroga. Welcome back,

0:40.2

gentlemen. Thank you. Thank you. We need to get some fucking energy and new people.

0:44.0

I'm crazy. I'm not supposed to be the tired one here. Holy shit.

0:47.2

Let's go. It's never going to open. Our driveways is crazy right now because we've got

0:51.6

Aaron is in the F type, which apparently is one of two. He has sitting his driver.

0:55.7

Is the other one the same color exactly the same color. Two identical F type.

1:00.3

You're like, why can't we get an F types review? Because Aaron has both of the car and driver

1:04.6

has them all. What are they loaning them to? You like roller skate style at this point?

1:08.2

I'm basically testing every car that comes into the country. So it's part of the

1:12.7

personal. First of all, I'm part of QC for Jaguar's Valentino Balboni. Exactly.

1:19.2

Can we get an Instagram picture of you roller skating with two F types?

1:26.2

And then Tony rolls up in this unbelievably gorgeous 993 Porsche.

1:31.1

And then Blake's got this NSX outside. It's ridiculous. What's going on?

1:34.8

Oh, you brought the new Porsche. Oh, yeah. It's amazing.

1:39.4

Let's just tell it. Tell me about it before.

1:40.6

To fill in it because he describes it as the car he waited 19 years for.

1:44.0

So yeah, I've waited since 90 years old. Yeah, it turns 20, I think in July.

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