Editorial Podcasts

The U.S. presidential election has been decided in favor of Donald Trump.

We discuss the state of auto financing with Edmund's director of insights, Ivan Drury, and then Matthew Guy and I discuss angle grinders and the latest from the NASCAR playoffs.

On this week’s episode, we chat with Karl Brauer of iSeeCars.com to discuss the return of sub $20,000 cars in the used car marketplace.

Hurricanes have socked the Southeast lately, and with that in mind, we speak with Patrick Olsen from Carfax about how you can avoid buying one of these vehicles that's been flood damaged.

Hey hey! It's TTAC podcast time!

We're starting your week off with the TTAC podcast!

Today's podcast was all about the longest-lasting cars and trucks you can buy.

Hey all, it's the end of the week, and you know what that means. It's podcast time!

Hello all, it's podcast time again!

We had spy photographer Brian Williams on our podcast today, and his appearance got me thinking.

Do you enjoy seeing spy shots online and in car magazines?

Hello and happy podcast day!

Today's podcast was all about car care.

Hello there, it's time for another episode of the TTAC podcast!

Yup, it's podcast day! Spend some time during the long weekend with us!

Hello there! It's podcast time!

This week we talk with Colum Wood, VP of content at VerticalScope, our parent company, about a study run by sibling site AutoGuide. This study shows about 10 percent of EV owners have been left stranded -- but not for the reasons you probably think.

Today's podcast leads to an obvious question of the day: What new-car features do you want in your next ride?

It's Friday, so it must be podcast time!

This week on the TTAC podcast we talk with Jessica Caldwell, head of insights at Edmunds.com, about why Teslas are being traded in for gas cars -- and hybrids.

Hey! It's podcast day again!

Hey all! It's podcast time again!

Hey all, it's podcast time again!

This week we chat with Robby DeGraff from AutoPacific about why younger buyers are more open to buying Chinese cars, despite potential privacy concerns.

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meager income. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories.

Anyone who has the space to work on their own rig knows that, at some point or another in the maintenance of a car (which, in our case, are generally terrible but tremendous hoopties), electricity will be required for something. Whether that’s to illuminate a corded worklight, a power tool which doesn’t have a battery, or another item entirely, the presence of a household electrical outlet will eventually be extremely handy.

Except, of course, it’s waaayyy over there. And the last extension cord you had got mangled by the whipper snipper and was overloaded anyway. What to do?

It wasn't a prediction, exactly, but journalist Peter Ramsay from EVInFocus.com did some reporting last year that suggested executives were calling for Volkswagen to invest in Rivian.

What does it mean for a car to be American made?

Gavin Newsom, the governor of the state of California, recently vetoed a bill that would have the state help fund folks who wanted to turn their used internal-combustion engine car into an EV.

Hey there, it's time for another episode of the TTAC podcast!

Welcome back for another edition of the TTAC podcast!

Welcome back to another episode of the TTAC podcast!

For this week's TTAC podcast, we chatted about the cars that U.S. News & World Report dubbed the best cars for teens for 2024.

With graduation season in mind, these are the best cars for teens.

NASCAR will be returning to Chicago this summer.

Welcome back. This week we have another episode of the TTAC podcast!

Hey hey, whaddaya say? Today is podcast day!

It's podcast time again. This week, we talk with Alex Roy, principal at Johnson and Roy Advisors, a company that provides strategy for companies in the AI, robotics, and transportation space, about why autonomous cars aren't so scary.

It's time for another podcast!

Today is Friday, so it must be podcast day!

This week we sit down with Cody Stolle, research assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln and the assistant director at the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility, to discuss a lesser-known problem with EVs and road safety.

This week we sit down with John Vincent, senior editor of vehicle testing at U.S. News & World Report, to discuss their best cars for families for 2024.

Last week in New York, I sat down with Brian Moody, the executive editor at AutoTrader, to discuss what was going in Manhattan at the 2024 New York Auto Show.

As regular readers know, the regulatory side of the automotive industry is hugely important. It's not as fun to read about as a well-written car review of some sexy sports car being tested in Spain, but it matters a lot. Not just to those employed in the industry (or in industry-adjacent jobs, like mine) but also to the car-buying public.

For today's podcast, we sat down with Tyson Jominy, Vice President, data and analytics for J.D. Power, to discuss what the most reliable car brands are.

Last week we were discussing electric vehicles with BJ Birtwell, who likely would consider himself and EV evangelist, and Alex Knizek from Consumer Reports, who noted that seven of this year's top 10 vehicles were electrified.

This week we dig deeper into what is happening with the EV market.

Electric vehicles are dominating the industry conversation, so we had a chat with someone who is a bit of an EV evangelist...as well as with a journalist who noted that his outlet elected seven electrified vehicles to its latest Top 10 list.

On today's podcast, we ponder if plug-in hybrids are the future, talk Tesla and Ram, and ruminate on our first races attended as fans.

This week we speak with Mike Spagnola, president and CEO of the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), about a proposed ban on internal-combustion engine (ICE) vehicles in Connecticut.

The question I posed in the headline is an interesting one. There's been a lot of consternation that auto shows are dying, set to be killed by a changing world.

Welcome back to the TTAC podcast! Today we have Karl Brauer, executive analyst for iSeeCars.com, on to talk about best and worst used cars for the money. TTAC car reviewer Chris Tonn also sits in.

We're doubling up this week after the tech issues we faced last week.

We promised you a podcast last week, and we're back!

Hey there! Remember the podcast we did until early last year? It was put on hiatus for a variety of reasons we'll keep in house -- and now, it's back!

Just a quick note of self-promotion here. You've heard our podcasts. Now you can check out my guest spot on Consumer Guide's podcast.

As February ends, we look back a couple of weeks to the 2023 Chicago Auto Show on our latest podcast.

Time for yet more shameless self-promotion! The latest episode of our podcast is now live. On it, we discuss the Mazda CX-90, EV pricing, and Honda's fuel-cell strategy.

The TTAC podcast is back, and we were aggressively Midwest this time around.

The next episode of the TTAC podcast is here!

Hi there! Remember that podcast we did a few weeks back? Well, we’re back with more.

There’s also more to come.

One of my hopes as editor of this august site has been to get a podcast off the ground. It was a back-burner idea for years, then Matt and Steph and I recorded a trial run in 2020.