Crazy Toyota Driving; Mercedes Engine Surprise; Lawsuit Update

The Smoking Tire

Zack Klapman, Matt Farah

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Matt Farah talks is being surprised by a non-V8 Mercedes AMG; Zack Klapman walks us through his back-to-back drives in 3 generations of GR Corolla (and how the cars differ) AND describes the shock and joy of driving a 2-mile rally stage; Twitter (now X) loses its lawsuit against Matt's wife; plus we answer Patreon questions including: The moment we decided to leave our normal jobs $20k convertible challenge What ONE mod turns a good car into a bad one? Should I manual-swap an R129 Mercedes? Which watch should be a car? BMW E46 GTR vs Calsonic GT-R Why does my car feel weird? Dream drift car build Car owner stereotypes that are true Are we satisfied? Which car did we miss out on? And more! Recorded October 8, 2025 DeleteMe Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to https://www.joindeleteme.com/TIRE and use promo code TIRE at checkout. Smalls For a limited time get 60%$ off your first order when you head to https://www.smalls.com/tire Rula Rula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance. Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/tire #rulapod TruWerk Get 15% off your first order at https://www.TRUEWERK.com with Code: TIRE New merch! Grab a shirt or hoodie and support us! https://thesmokingtireshop.com/ Use Off The Record! and ALWAYS fight your tickets! For a 10% discount on your first case go to https://www.offtherecord.com/TST Want your question answered? Want to watch the live stream, get ad-free podcasts, or exclusive podcasts? Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesmokingtirepodcast Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/thesmokingtire https://www.Instagram.com/therealzackklapman DeleteMe Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to https://www.joindeleteme.com/TIRE and use promo code TIRE at checkout. Smalls For a limited time get 60%$ off your first order when you head to https://www.smalls.com/tire Rula Rula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance. Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/tire #rulapod TruWerk Get 15% off your first order at https://www.TRUEWERK.com with Code: TIRE New merch! Grab a shirt or hoodie and support us! https://thesmokingtireshop.com/ Use Off The Record! and ALWAYS fight your tickets! For a 10% discount on your first case go to https://www.offtherecord.com/TST Want your question answered? Want to watch the live stream, get ad-free podcasts, or exclusive podcasts? Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesmokingtirepodcast Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/thesmokingtire https://www.Instagram.com/therealzackklapman

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? Welcome to the Smoking Tire podcast. Today's podcast is brought to you by Off the Record. We love Off the Record over here. They're looking out for us all the time wherever I drive. I drive confident that if I get a ticket off the record is going to defend it to the death or to the pain or in court. They would go to court.
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0:55.2	All right, folks, on this episode of the podcast, we talk about the beauty of AMG inline
1:02.4	sixes.
1:03.8	The statistical predictions for what would succeed and fail in our YouTube channel
1:09.9	have actually come perfectly true. My wife beat Elon Musk in
1:15.2	court and Zach got to try a smorgish board of fast Toyota's on both the racetrack and a rally stage.
1:24.2	It's the smoking tire podcast. Let's go. Shout out to Ms. Lala. Hi, everybody. Welcome
1:31.3	to the program. We have a whole bunch of things to talk about. Do you just pour like regular
1:39.8	water into your coffee? It's tea. So I'm cooling it down so I can drink it faster. So I get the
1:44.1	energy during the show, not after the show.
1:46.0	Right, right, right. Got to time this plane. It's just English breakfast. It's good. Yeah. Good. Is there the same amount of caffeine and a cup of tea, cup of coffee? It's less. It's less. And it's different. I just, I'm reading Michael Pollan's book, like plant drugs,
2:02.5	your mind on plants or something.
2:04.1	So the first, first one was about opium poppies. Like, it's four sections. Sure. I'm on the caffeine section now. So there's other things in tea that, like, mellow out how the caffeine feels. It's not just about how many milligrams there are. Got it. But there's also usually fewer milligrams, roughly. Don't come at me, bros, like then in a cup of black coffee. Got it. Got it, got it. I'm on plants. Yeah, you are. You know, sometimes. You're kind of vegetarian. Sometimes I'm on plants. Yeah. I mean, sometimes I'm drinking them. Right. Sometimes I'm...
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