S3 Magazine Podcast

Here’s our 2-cents on the whole Chelsea Denofa vs Stuke drama from Formula D New Jersey. Personally – I LOVE the fact that Chelsea went off. And I DON’T think he owes anyone an apology… if he doesn’t mean it. Now let me be clear: I don’t have a dog in this fight, I wasn’t in the driver’s seat, and I’m not taking sides. But if you’re not up on the situation, it basically went down like this. https:...

Rivian announced the switch to Tesla's NACS charging connectors. So now Rivian, along with Ford & GM, are about to start using Tesla superchargers. I think we can pretty much call the game for Tesla's NACS at this point, as they are truly becoming 'the standard'. Toyota is continuing to push hard for their GR line in 2024. They're bringing a TRUENO Edition GR86, the GR Corolla is coming out in vib...

We discuss the week's automotive news. •Akio Toyoda stays on board •Land Cruiser returns to USA •GM will switch to Tesla's NACS charging connectors •If the future is in fact EV, we need to start thinking SMALL All of these articles are on our site (s3mag.com), as well as some killer cars features this week. Please check that out! And you can also get the S3 Magazine APP for free, available for App...

Influential ultra-progressive investors of Toyota are now calling to remove Akio Toyoda from the board entirely at Toyota’s June 14 shareholder meeting. Akio stepped down as CEO on April 1st of this year (replaced by Koji Sato from Lexus), but Akio still remained on the board. AKIO TOYODA IS VIRTUALLY THE ONLY AUTOMOTIVE LEADER… With the courage to express his concerns about diving head-first into...

Wooley drives a Genesis EV press car for a week & it changes his opinions/perspectives a little bit?!! Also - we share some data on 'EV battery failures' now that early EVs like the Nissan Leaf & Tesla Model S pass their 10th birthday. We also briefly hit on the righteous new 2024 Toyota Tacoma.... and talk about another questionable engine failure in a new Toyota GR86.... as well as its denied wa...

The Rimac Nevera (an EV hypercar) breaks 23 dang speed/performance records in a single day. Very impressive... but also uninspiring. As my old-school buddy put it "If you're breaking records, it need to be dangerous." Meanwhile Rimac's damn test driver was eating an ice cream cone. ALSO - Toyota drops more knowledge & foresight to the automotive industry. Please check out s3mag.com for automotive...

Pricing for the new Acura Integra Type S ('DE5' ITS) came out at $51,995. And though we're not surprised... that does hurt our feelings a little bit. Plus - the dealership markups are already in full effect... •Download the free S3 MAGAZINE app• ...and stay up-to-date on car culture news.

Yeah yeah - Riverside is 'just another car show', so what's all the fuss about??? Well... we talk about that. The guest is Ben Battles, and you'll be able to see his photos/coverage on s3mag.com tonight (we'll link you here when it drops).

The WRC (World Rally Championship) is set to make a potential return to the US as soon as 2024. This would mark the 1st time the WRC has been involved in the US in 35 years. And Rally USA’s recent demonstration event in Chattanooga was aimed squarely at the WRC to show them – WE WANT THIS! See the full article on S3 Magazine here: https://s3mag.com/rally-usa-brings-ra... •And please check out S3 M...

Mike was ranting to me that "the daily COVID excuses" are wearing real thin on him. And as he said this, I was literally having a similar thought that: All these dealer markups & 'shortages' have just absolutely WRECKED the automotive industry for buyers. Especially enthusiast buyers. Me personally - I'd much rather go buy a used car that's fair & convenient to purchase..... than get bent-over on...

We've begun to see a trend in the data: Where our car enthusiast friends who bought Teslas out of curiosity for ownership experience a few years ago... are getting left a little unfulfilled in the long run, once the honeymoon phase is over. •check out our feee app• for Apple & Android. Called: S3 MAGAZINE

Man do I need a C5 Corvette ! ? That's both a question AND a declaration lol. Problem is, I've already got way too many cars (a normal person would say)... I don't need it. But when it comes to cars, I'm kinda like Sarah McLachlan is with dogs/cats, and I wanna give them ALL homes... in & around my yard lol. Logic has no place here... yet... there are actually some pretty compelling arguments for...

We did a throwback on S3 (•check out our free app• S3 MAGAZINE), to a feature we ran on cover 12 years ago. It stirred-up a bunch of nostalgia for the car scene circa 2011, so we decided to talk about how we picked those feature/cover cars back in the day... and 'what it takes' to get your car featured in general.

Motor Trend Group/Discovery shut down the iconic 'Four Wheeler' mag... and Jeepin Bubba wanted to talk/vent about that 'cause it punched him right in the gut. The roles were reversed a lil bit for this podcast... meaning that Mike & I didn't know exactly what we were gonna be talking about. So hell, it quickly flowed into a conversation about 'media in general' these days.... and whether or not 't...

2 Views Jan 25 2023 Tesla has aggressively dropped prices since the first of the year. We talk about the ripple effects it will have on the auto industry. •CHECK OUT OUR FREE APP• (S3 MAGAZINE)

THE CORVETTE WAS ALREADY A SPORTS CAR FOR OLD FARTS.. (that doesn't stop me from wanting one) So Chevy went & made a Corvette for even older farts with the E-Ray? Reading between the lines, GM gets a lot of old guys who want to spend as much money as possible on a new Corvette. And up until this point, that’s led them straight into a badass, uncomfortable, RWD Z06 or ZR1 that wants to vaporize you...

AS A WHOLE, the auto industry has gotten really generic, numb, dumb, autonomous, disengaging, sanitized, boring, forgettable, gimmicky, etc, etc. If you love to drive, & you love connecting to the moment... it's irritating to say the least. BUT.... glass-half-full... I'll be darn if there's not some really good driver's cars WITH MANUAL TRANSMISSIONS that have been slipping into the lineups... one...

Mike knows a little bit about financial matters, so I kinda wanted to get his opinion on what the stock market is saying about Carvana & Tesla these days. How did Carvana get in this situation? Has Elon Musk's attention shifted away from Tesla to Twitter? And/or... is Tesla losing their sweet-spot now that the EV market has exploded & every other car manufacturer is competing for battery resources...

In mid-September, Ford announced that all Ford dealerships had until Halloween to decide if they wanted to become ‘EV Certified’. The giant stipulation was – it would cost each Ford dealer roughly $500,000 or $1,200,000… depending on if they wanted to be Tier-1 or Tier-2 certified. And a huge part of that cost is to build-out a public charging infrastructure at the dealership. In other words, if a...

GM came up in the news a couple times this week. First - for backtracking on EVs a lil bit. GM has been very ambitious (aka virtue signal-ish) over the past year or so that they're 'all-in' on EVs... even stating that they would be fully EV by 2035. But at an investor day just before Thanksgiving, GM President Mark Reuss said that they have no intention of rushing to kill-off internal combustion i...

Sometime low-key earlier this year, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) stopped Ebay Motors from selling any automotive products that could be deemed as ’emissions defeating’. That includes aftermarket hardware & software: Tuners, race exhausts, standalone ECUs, air/fuel management devices, etc. Ebay had virtually no choice in the matter, it was an ultimatum: Stop selling these products…. or...

IF YOU SLICED-UP THE BATTERY PACK OF JUST ONE HUMMER EV… You’d probably have enough juice to power 5 little blast-to-drive commuter EVs. That would be a lot less strain on the earth… and isn’t that what this is all about? The answer is no. See if the EV movement was still really about being green, we’d be approaching it a lot differently. A lot less materialistically. Green has become a status sym...

This podcast didn't have one specific topic. But rather, everyday it seems we hear about more absolutely dumb & ridiculous news coming from the automotive industry... and it's just hard to watch lol. Here are a couple abbreviated stories from this past week. If you want the full articles, just check out our site (s3mag.com) or download our free app (S3 Magazine). 1) A brand new Hummer EV broke dow...

Mike posted a video of him & his son listening to the race cars at Petit Lemans during night practice (they live close enough to the track to hear the cars). And some commenter said - they won't stop until they take ALL our internal combustion cars & close ALL the racetracks. Something along the lines of, "He will violate all our cars"?? I dunno that got weird. But it's a glaring example that some...

We brought our good buddy, Ben Battles, to come on the podcast & describe the vibe of Slammedenuff in Gatlinburg TN. Ben has shot (& written) NUMEROUS features for S3 MAG over the years. He's got a really good/informative TikTok channel @thegamblercivic ...so be sure to check that out. If you're in the market, Ben can also source unique/eclectic vehicles, especially of the JDM variety. Follow him...