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The Smoking Tire

Zack Klapman, Matt Farah

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4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Nikita and Iliya Bridan are car designers behind the incredible and interesting Half-11 hypercar. They both spent years designing for various OEMs and have now struck off on their own. On this show we talk about the incredibly difficult development phase; making two powertrains work in one car; why an EV swap interests them; the hardest part about building cars; expensive windshields; what inspired them; and so much more. Recorded July 17, 2025 https://www.oilstainlab.com/ Houston Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-smoking-tire-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-car-podcast-coming-to-houston-tickets-1439944967159?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl Dallas Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-smoking-tire-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-car-podcast-coming-to-dallas-tickets-1447301911979?aff=oddtdtcreator Liquid IV Squeeze the most out of your Summer with Liquid I.V. Tear. Pour. Live More. Go to https://www.liquidiv.com and get 20% off your first order with code TIRE at checkout. DeleteMe Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to https://www.joindeleteme.com/TIRE and use promo code TIRE at checkout. Car Gurus Buy or sell your next car today with Car Gurus at https://www.cargurus.com Upside Download the FREE Upside App and use promo code TIRE to get an extra 25 cents back for every gallon on your first tank of gas. That’s an extra 25 cents back for every gallon on your first tank of gas, using promo code, TIRE. New merch! Grab a shirt or hoodie and support us! https://thesmokingtireshop.com/ Want your question answered? To listen to the episode the day it's recorded? Want to watch the live stream, get ad-free podcasts, or exclusive podcasts? Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesmokingtirepodcast Use Off The Record! and ALWAYS fight your tickets! For a 10% discount on your first case go to https://www.offtherecord.com/TST #cars #comedy #podcast Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/thesmokingtire https://www.Instagram.com/therealzackklapman Click here for the most honest car reviews out there: https://www.youtube.com/thesmokingtire

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? Welcome to the Smoking Tire podcast. Now we are as always brought to you by off the record,
0:07.9	but I'm not talking about them today because TST is coming to Texas. That's right, this Thursday and Friday.
0:17.2	July 23rd and 24th, we are in Houston in Dallas, respectively, doing live podcasts at the shop
0:26.5	clubs. Come see us in Houston, Thursday, July 24th with our pal Christian James Hand and Friday,
0:34.1	July 25th in Dallas. Tickets are going quick. It will sell out. So buy them now.
0:41.4	The ticket link is in the show notes for this podcast, as well as the Smoking Tire Instagram
0:48.8	description, link in bio. So get tickets. Come see us this Thursday and Friday in Texas. And if it
0:56.5	goes well, it's the kind of thing we'll keep doing in coming to you other places throughout
1:02.6	the country. So let's get to it. On this episode of the Smoking Tire podcast, we've got a real
1:10.6	special guests in town.
1:13.7	The Twins of Oilstain Lab, Nikita and Ilya Burdan.
1:18.6	These guys were here a couple of years ago with their insane half-11 conceptual, historical revisionist project.
1:28.6	And it was such a big hit that they're apparently now going to turn it into a real car.
1:34.0	I went to their studio to see it and they're in studio telling us all about it now.
1:39.6	So let's give a warm smoking tire.
1:41.7	Welcome to Nikita and Ilya Burden of Oil Stain Labs.
1:46.7	Let's go.
1:48.8	We're live.
1:49.7	We exist.
1:50.7	All right.
1:51.9	Hello.
1:52.6	I'm on the other side today.
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