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April 21, 2010
The Smoking Tire Pits the 2010 S4 against the 2007 RS4
By John Coyle
Deputy Editor
In the this episode of the Smoking Tire, Matt Farah and his buddy Craig take two hot Audis—the 2010 S4 and the 2007 RS4—up into the canyons of Malibu to find out how the company’s newest sports sedan compares to what they regard as its best sports sedan. Obviously, each car has its own strengths and weaknesses, but the real surprise in this episode has nothing to do with either of these AWD Germans. So what is it? Matt admits he’s actually owned a Hummer. Wow…
April 8, 2010
Behind the Scenes of Tanner Foust’s Street Drift
By John Coyle
Deputy Editor
A couple of weeks back, Rockstar Energy Drink dropped this dope clip of Tanner Foust taking his V8 Scion tC up LA’s legendary Mulholland Drive. As you can imagine, setting up this video was a big production, and Matt Farah and the guys from the Smoking Tire were on hand get some footage about how the shoot went down. Tanner’s people wanted TST to sit on this footage for a couple of weeks before they released it, but now the embargo is up, so we can all check it out. Enjoy.
Behind The Scenes – Street Drift: Mulholland with Tanner Foust
April 7, 2010
The Smoking Tire Smokes Tires of 2011 Mustang GT
By John Coyle
Deputy Editor
Last week, Matt Farah and the guys from the Smoking Tire got a chance to play with Ford’s 2011 V6 Mustang, and Matt said it might just be the most might just be the most significant car built in the States this year. High praise indeed. But in this episode, they get their hands on the Blue Oval’s brand-new 412HP 5.0 GT! They flog it on Mulholland and even get a chance to drag the trick Pony against the new Camaro SS. If you know the specs of these beefy pieces of American muscle, you can probably guess which one comes out on top…
March 22, 2010
The Smoking Tire does Big Sausage Pizza Delivery
By Rob Krider
Racerboy
Earlier this week we showed you how the Car Domain entry (Krider Racing/Big Sausage Pizza Delivery) won the “Good Class” at the 24 Hours of LeMons Sears Pointless. Well, the team’s infamous Big Sausage t-shirt made an appearance on the newest episode of The Smoking Tire. Matt Farah donned one of the infamous red Big Sausage Pizza Delivery shirts as he test drove a red Hyundai Genesis Coupe.
February 9, 2010
Killer Evo X Road Test… Almost
By John Coyle
Deputy Editor
Matt Farah from the Smoking Tire saw this murdered out Evo X at a recent Cars and Coffee—and its owner Russ actually invited him to drive it. In case you were wondering, good things happen when you have a camera crew. Anyway, the Evo was stock for a whole week before Russ took it to Road Race Engineering, who added some trick suspension bits and started tuning the motor. This black beauty is currently putting down almost twice the horsepower it was in factory form, so as you can imagine, it’s damn quick. But before Russ handed it over to Matt, he wanted to demonstrate just how quick by overtaking a a Porsche 996 Cup Car. And everything went exactly as planned. Yup, it was a totally textbook shoot…
December 1, 2009
Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational
By Rob Krider
Racerboy
Sure, we all love to see those badass show cars with the huge tires and the 500 plus horsepower engines. But do any of them actually run worth a damn? The Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational puts the rubber to the road and finds out which cars are for show and which cars are for GO!
Matt Farah and the boys at The Smoking Tire headed out to Spring Mountain Motorsports Park in Pahrump, Nevada, and captured some great, and not so great moments at the Optima Batteries event.
