Why Jay Leno Will NEVER Stop Buying Cars

Spike's Car Radio

Spike Feresten

Automotive, Leisure

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Jay Leno stops by the SCR Garage to talk supercars, Secret Service snipers, and how he accidentally became a registered arms dealer. We review the Lotus Emira Turbo SE, and debate canyon carving ethics, the death of late-night TV, and what it takes to hit 210 mph on an Air Force runway. ______________________________________________ 🛠️ RaceDeck - Transform Your Garage Get 15% off garage flooring! https://RaceDeck.com/SCR 🛞 Vredestein - Car, SUV, Van, and Light Truck Tires Demand a better tire. Demand Vredestein. https://vredestein.com 🫧 Meguiar's - 125 Years of Passion Premium products to clean, restore, and protect your vehicle https://meguiarsdirect.com/collections/new 💧 Pocket Hose - The #1 Expanding Hose in the World Text SPIKE to 64000 to get a FREE Pocket Pivot and 10-Pattern Sprayer with Purchase of the Pocket Hose Ballistic! 🛏️ Brooklyn Bedding - Award Winning Mattresses Go to https://brooklynbedding.com and use my promo code SPIKE for 30% off sitewide! GRAB SOME SCR MERCH: https://spikescarradio.com GET MORE SCR ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/spikescarradio ______________________________________________ Jay Leno is 76 and still out-buying most of us. In this episode, he breaks down his latest haul: the Corvette ZR1, McLaren W1, Mustang GTD, and the wild 3D-printed Czinger 21C. He explains why the best cars today don't need ads, just a YouTube video and word of mouth. Jay also gets into what it was like hosting "Jay Leno's Garage" with President Joe Biden, complete with rooftop snipers, a custom Sheffield watch color-matched to Biden's '67 Corvette, and Hunter Biden showing up for ice cream. Jonny Lieberman brings a proper review of the Lotus Emira Turbo SE: AMG engine, fixed DCT programming, and enough British quirks to fill a whole segment. The group debates Porsche Boxsters, EU speed-limit beepers, and hidden phone chargers engineered for Chinese regulations. Jay also shares why he turned down a dramatic film role, what's in his apocalypse go-bag, and how a visit from the King of Jordan left him legally classified as an arms dealer. _____________________________________________ 📧 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 ______________________________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Jay Leno 01:32 - Joe Biden's Corvette Stingray 06:53 - Jay's new cars 14:43 - Jay's Corvette ZR1X 22:11 - Jay's TANKS 27:35 - Why Jay bought a Czinger 21C 35:33 - Lotus Emira Turbo SE review 45:12 - Things we'll never get rid of 47:32 - Denim 48:08 - The Tonight Show 53:50 - Jay's thoughts on "Don't Cross the Mustard" 56:28 - The death of late night 58:42 - Watches Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Spike's Car Radio. Yeah. Welcome back, Mr. Leto.
0:08.0	Thank you. It's good to see you. Good to be here. Johnny Lieberman. Thanks for showing up.
0:12.0	This is like the Audraign Concor again. Yeah, there we go.
0:16.0	Right here, we're all going back too. Yeah, yeah, we'll see you that.
0:20.0	It was very exciting. I like that event.
0:22.2	It seems it's like what I think Pebble was probably like, yeah, 58, 59, 60, you know, those years. He had Phil Hill and race car drive. Oh, no, the car thing. Oh, come to the car thing. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't like now just so crazy. Do you know, I want to rename it, though.
0:37.4	I want to call it the Newport Concord.
0:39.9	What do you think about that? like now, it's just so crazy. Do you know, I want to rename it, though.
0:37.5	I want to call it the Newport Concord.
0:39.8	What do you think about that?
0:41.6	Rather than this, odd drain.
0:42.7	Well, because Newport car, I think that's already taken.
0:45.4	Oh.
0:45.8	Because there's a Newport Car Museum down the street.
0:48.4	There is, yeah.
0:49.7	It's just the odd drain, I think, throws everyone off.
0:53.2	Like it sounds like odd drain, I think, throws everyone off. Like, it sounds like odd drain.
0:57.0	Odd.
0:58.0	I can't say I thought of that.
0:59.7	I never thought of that.
1:00.4	And when you go there, it's sprawling and massive and impressive and event after event after event.
1:07.9	But you're like a guy who reads vanity plates or not vanity plates.
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