The Best Last Sports Sedan from Car Show! with Eddie Alterman
Past Gas
Donut Media
4.9 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
We’re shaking things up today and sharing a preview from Car Show!, a new podcast from our friends at Pushkin Industries. Longtime Car and Driver editor Eddie Alterman tells the stories of the vital cars — the ones that have changed how we drive and live, whose significance lies outside the scope of horsepower or miles per gallon. In this preview, Eddie and fellow car enthusiast Malcolm Gladwell share an ode to sport-sedan purity, before automation and excessive trim ruined everything. You can listen to the full episode and more from Car Show! at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/carshow?sid=gas.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey car lovers, we're shaking things up a bit, bringing you a preview of a new car podcast |
| 0:04.2 | we can't stop listening to. It's named rather aptly car show. It's hosted by Eddie Altraman, |
| 0:10.9 | a longtime editor at car and driver and the chief brand officer at Herstados. Like past gas, |
| 0:16.6 | it takes a look at how our favorite cars came to be and how they've impacted society. So if you |
| 0:21.5 | love past gas, we're sure you're going to enjoy car show. So Eddie's thing is that he thinks all |
| 0:27.1 | cars are great, even the truly awful ones, but some cars, he says, transcend their car-ness. |
| 0:33.5 | Some cars are a rolling anthropology. On car show, Eddie tells the stories of the vital cars that |
| 0:40.0 | have changed how we drive and live. The ones whose significance lies outside the scope of horsepower |
| 0:45.6 | or miles per gallon. Cars like the Jeep Wrangler and why it's considered the most American car |
| 0:50.3 | ball time and the Bugatti Veyron and its quest to outrun gravity. In this preview, Eddie is joined by |
| 0:56.2 | fellow car-fanatic Malcolm Gladwell to share an ode to the last great sports sedan. They take a ride |
| 1:02.0 | through the winding roads of upstate New York and Malcolm Silver BMW M5, praising its purity before |
| 1:08.0 | automation and excessive trim went enruin to everything. Okay, here's the preview of car show. We |
| 1:13.3 | hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. You can hear the full episode and more of car show wherever |
| 1:18.1 | you get your podcasts. I'm super nervous driving your car. I know, don't be. It's like, you know, |
| 1:25.7 | it's funny. In my old Golf R, I felt invulnerable and then same thing in the Cadillac CTS-V, I feel like, |
| 1:35.3 | I really feel like they're going to cover up any errors you make. Yeah. This car is a little |
| 1:41.6 | hint of danger. I feel like you're a little bit on your own. You know, they send you off and they say, |
| 1:50.3 | you know, be well my son. You're not on your own. Doesn't that a good thing? Doesn't that keep you? |
| 1:58.4 | It does keep your control. Yeah, there are no safety nets and that's I think probably good for the |
| 2:03.7 | human species in general. A little automotive Darwinism always focuses the mind. I'm Eddie |
| 2:16.1 | Alterman and this is car show, my podcast about why we drive what we drive. I'm with my friend |
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