The 2025 SCR Car of the Year Is Here!

Spike's Car Radio

Spike Feresten

Automotive, Leisure

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Spike and the crew name their Car of the Year winner, discuss the "Maggot of the Year" nominees, and review impressive new vehicles including the Rivian R1S and Pagani Utopia manual. Plus, they react to a bizarre news story about an eagle dropping a cat through a windshield and debate South Australia's new supercar license requirements. ______________________________________________ 🛠️ RaceDeck - Transform Your Garage Get 15% off plus free shipping with code SPIKE356 https://RaceDeck.com 🎧 Raycon - Pocket-Sized Sound for Active Days Get 20% off the Essential Open Earbuds and MORE https://buyraycon.com/spikeopen 📅 Odoo - Modern Management Made SimpleAll your business on one platform. Try it at https://www.odoo.com 🔵 BlueChew - Get Bricked Up Get your first month free with code SPIKE911 https://BlueChew.com Check out the new SCR Sheffield!https://sheffieldwatches.com ______________________________________________ The Aston Martin Vanquish takes SCR's Car of the Year crown for its stunning design and performance that makes it "the greatest Aston Martin ever." Johnny provides an in-depth review of the Pagani Utopia manual, praising its mature design, seven-speed manual transmission, and luxurious carbon fiber and titanium construction. The Rivian R1S Gen 2 impresses with its Tesla charger compatibility, accurate range tracking, and improved motors and suspension. Meanwhile, the hosts debate who deserves the "Maggot of the Year" title - from Cybertruck drivers to fake handicap placard users. The crew discusses Thanksgiving travel headaches, the first BMW M car heading to auction, and answers listener questions about car collecting criteria and SUV recommendations. _____________________________________________ 📧 To advertise with Spike’s Car Radio, contact Neon Tiger Media: contact@neontiger.media 🌐 or visit: https://scrpod.com/sponsor Produced by Skyview Entertainment & Q6 Media https://q6.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to SCR.
0:07.0	What are we looking at, boys?
0:09.0	Murder photos?
0:10.0	Yes.
0:11.0	You know, vivisected bodies.
0:14.0	What are you looking at, Spike?
0:15.0	Yeah, porn.
0:17.0	I mean, boring.
0:19.0	Goring.
0:20.0	They really were. That's what they were looking at, dead bodies.
0:22.9	I thought you were looking at cheesecake photos of lovely ladies,
0:25.8	and it was a horrible black and white murder scene.
0:29.7	The black dahlia.
0:31.3	But Elizabeth Short.
0:33.5	It's the holidays, fellas.
0:35.4	That's how we celebrate.
0:37.1	That's the problem.
0:57.0	Can't we? Can't we celebrate? Welcome to Spike's Car Radio. It's a good show. It is our one year anniversary. Somehow we made it a year, gentlemen. Look at that. Can we start smoking cigars in here? No, we can. We should. It's really a drag. Well, maybe we'll do an audio show since we wanted to get together over the real Thanksgiving.
0:57.8	On Thanksgiving. This is the week after Thanksgiving, but right now it's before Thanksgiving we're recording because you know who's got to go home for two weeks. Oh, we got to see his family. You got to have jerky have turkey with your family. What are we all thankful about?
1:12.6	Cameron, you say what you're thankful about.
1:14.6	Isn't that horrible when you have to do that?
1:19.6	We're gonna go around the table and I want everyone.
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