The ZR1 is INSANE; Wooden Manx; M3 Wrenching; Q&A

The Smoking Tire

Zack Klapman, Matt Farah

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4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Matt put some wood in his Manx buggy; gives us more detail on how crazy the Corvette ZR1 is to drive (on road and track); Zack did some voluntary (for a change) wrenching; they discuss the inherit flaws of FWD-based AWD cars; we have a new way to hurt ourselves, and Patreon questions include: Our scariest moments in a car. What event would we enter? Which new-retro cars would we gift each other? Best 2 cars garage: a daily GM and fun Porsche or daily Porsche and fun GM? Who is the new 2026 Honda Prelude for? Would we buy back a former car? "Normal" cars that we loved Is a convertible more dangerous for a college kid than a sedan or coupe? That new angelesdeathhighway Instagram page. Best cars from the '80s and '90s for under $100k How to own an EV in a REALLY cold climate And more! Recorded October 7, 2025 DeleteMe Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to https://www.joindeleteme.com/TIRE and use promo code TIRE at checkout. Smalls For a limited time get 60%$ 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

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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 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. Uh, if you get a ticket,
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0:55.1	All right, on today's episode of the podcast, I recap the second half of the performance
1:00.9	car of the year test and talk about a little bit of extra special swag that I got to take
1:07.0	home with me, as well as the upcoming weekend at Willow Springs.
1:10.5	It's going to be really
1:11.3	fun i seem to have found a racing shoe that works for proper proper weekend endurance racing
1:18.9	and a whole lot more on the smoking tire podcast let's go we We are alive.
1:28.4	I don't believe you.
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