Lightning Lap was Nuts w/ Tony Quiroga

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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What's faster around a track: a NASCAR or an 800HP Gymkhana car? Tony Quiroga knows. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Car and Driver magazine. He's here to talk about the newest Lightning Lap, his favorite LL cars over the years, and more! Recorded February 21, 2024 Read it here: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a46575000/lightning-lap-2024/ Check out the Subaru Air Slayer: https://vtcar.com/cars/vt20g/ Garage 56: https://www.nascar.com/garage56 Use Off The Record! and ALWAYS fight your tickets! Enter code TSTPOD for a 10% discount on your first case on the Off The Record app, or go to https://www.offtherecord.com/TST https://experiences.roadandtrack.com/ 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 Tweet at us! https://www.Twitter.com/thesmokingtire https://www.Twitter.com/zackklapman Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/thesmokingtire https://www.Instagram.com/therealzackklapman

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0:00.0	What's up folks? Welcome to the smoking tire podcast. Today we got a good one for you.
0:04.6	Tony Karoga, the editor-in-chief of Car and Driver magazine, is in studio. They just
0:10.3	did their big lightning lap test and so our main topic is the five fastest
0:15.6	and most interesting lightning lap cars of all time. Plus Tony gives us a
0:21.0	low down on the the redesign of the magazine.
0:24.6	We talk about some cars we'd like to see in Lightning Lapp and a whole lot more.
0:30.2	Tony Corrogas here, welcome to the smoking tire podcast.
0:33.0	Oh, yeah, the Maconte.
0:35.0	Yeah, we're getting a long-term one.
0:38.0	And why did you decide on a Macau?
0:40.0	Did you choose that or did Portia say,
0:42.0	hey, we'd like you to have a long-term
0:43.4	a con T we kind of chose it I mean it's kind of a niche car yeah and for a long time
0:48.0	Porsche didn't put the two-leader turbo into makons in the Oh, we're always curious about it.
0:53.1	We're like, why not?
0:53.8	Why not?
0:54.8	This is the best selling model.
0:55.5	And then they created the Macon T.
0:57.0	We drove it.
0:57.6	We were like, there's nothing wrong with this 2 liter.
0:59.1	Why have they been hiding it all this time?
1:00.4	It's kind of nice actually.
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