Torque Talk Radio: Recent Episodes
Sam Allen McLean
A United States-based Podcast covering all the latest news, trends, theories, and controversies from the Automotive industry and Motorsports. With your hosts Sam McLean in Florida, and Brock Moore in South Carolina, we rant about anything and everything automotive and racing! Feel Free to give us topics you want to hear about also, were confident we have an opinion about it!
WE CALLED IT!!! Toyota is finally giving Supra the manual transmission it deserves! But what else are they up to? And what is Lexus doing? And why is Mazda here? This seems suspect. We discuss this and more in this episode!
In recent automakers are resurrecting designs and nameplates that conjure nostalgia from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Why is that? Many statistics have shown that millennial buyers (born 1985ish- 2000ish) have some of the strongest buying power right now, and the market boom for nostalgia is in full swing, and automakers are jumping on board. But who got it right? Who is getting it wrong? In this episode, Brock and Sam discuss many new entries to come from the biggest automakers and debate whether they are hot... or not.
With a new year brings new changes to North American motorsport. IMSA is changing how it classifies its classes and that raises bug questions with European Sport car racing. NASCAR has a new schedule and a new car but that raises concerns of a unclear future!
We’re back! With 2020 being such a crazy and unpredictable year we’re ready to head into the new year with thoughts of 2021 being the breath of fresh air we all need! With that said, we’re also ready to get back to ranting and raving on here about all the latest news and controversies from the Automotive and Motorsports worlds! Who’s ready for Season 2 of Torque Talk Radio!?!
In this weeks episode we dice deep into two new sports cars from the Germans and Japanese. The new Nissan 400Z and the BMW 4-Series coupe. We finish out with an in-depth first hand account of Sam’s experiences from the SpaceX & NASA Demo 2 Crewed mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida!
In this episode we discuss the futures of the Camaro name late and where it’ll fall in the future. We also discuss how and why the JDM import market has blown up and debate if it will sustain or fizzle out.
In this episode we discuss some newly released “leaks” pertaining to future Corvette C8 models and the projected engine & drivetrain packages rumored to be in them. We also discuss the implications and our opinions of Hybrid and EV performance cars and how it will effect the Motorsport industry as well as the automotive industries as a whole.
In this episode we introduced two completely polar opposite ideas that ultimately we think might have more similarities that expected!
In this episode we discuss some of the moves Toyota is making that point to a very exciting new performance chapter for their brand and how these moves might affect their competition and the market as a whole.
We talk in detail about our predictions for the future of the Corvette and Cadillac, the history of Ford and where they’ve forgotten who they are and who their customers are, and some really cool news information coming out of Elon Musks “other” project beyond Tesla