Car Show! with Eddie Alterman

From Medal of Honor: James Fleming’s Impossible Vietnam War Rescue

In 1968, in the dense jungles of Vietnam, a team of Green Berets was pinned down by an overwhelming North Vietnamese Army force. Their last hope was a young Air Force pil

From Business History: De-Nazifying the Love Bug: The VW Beetle Story Part II

We're sharing an episode from another Pushkin podcast, Business History. Hosts Jacob Goldstein and Robert Smith examine the surprising stories of businesses big and small

From Business History: Hitler's Gift to the Hippies: The VW Beetle Story Part I

We're sharing an episode from another Pushkin podcast, Business History. Hosts Jacob Goldstein and Robert Smith examine the surprising stories of businesses big and small

Into the Toyota Land Cruiser

The Toyota Land Cruiser returns as a more affordable SUV, Tony and Eddie take it off-roading to find out if it lives up to the Land Cruiser name. For more on the Toyota

Into the Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato

The Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato is designed to play in the dirt, so we get it dirty. After a spirited drive, hosts Tony Quiroga and Eddie Alterman talk to Lamborghini’s

The Final Round with Malcolm Gladwell and Alonzo Bodden

In our Car of the Year finale, the finalists from rounds 1-4 now go head to head! Eddie, Malcolm, and Alonzo Bodden talk through the finalists, explain why they deserve a

Round Four: SUVs with Ezra Dyer

In our penultimate round, the contenders are the Ford Bronco Raptor, Genesis GV70, Honda CR-V, and the Land Rover Range Rover. Car and Driver Senior Editor Ezra Dyer and

Round Three: EVs with John Voelcker

In this episode, Eddie and Green Car Reports’ John Voelcker evaluate four industry-leading EVs: the Ford F-150 Lightning, BMW i4 M50, Hyundai Ioniq5, and the Cadillac Lyr

Round Two: Sports Sedans with Elana Scherr

Eddie is joined by hot rodder, muscle car enthusiast, and Car and Driver Senior Editor Elana Scherr to weigh in this week’s contestants: the Audi RS3, Cadillac CT5-V Blac

Round One: Sports Cars with Matt Farah

In round one of our tournament to determine the car of the year, Eddie is joined by Matt Farah to debate the various merits of the Corvette Z06, Nissan Z, Toyota Corolla

Car Show Season Two: The Tournament

Car Show will return on November 30 with a 5-episode tournament to determine Eddie’s highly subjective pick for best car of the year. We’re not just talking about perform

Family Car Shopping with Malcolm Gladwell

Eddie helps new father Malcolm Gladwell shop for a family car. They put a souped-up crossover, a Swedish luxury wagon, and... a minivan to the test to help him find the p

The Chrysler Minivan and the New American Parent

Envisioned as the antidote to the dowdy station wagon, the minivan became more stigmatized still, as it gave power and locomotion to a new entity: the helicopter parent.

The Bugatti Veyron: the Quest to Outrun Gravity

The Veyron is what happens when unlimited money and colossal ego meet the hardest automotive-engineering questions ever raised. It was built to be the fastest production

Detours: The Great Muscle Car Debate with Mike Musto

Eddie sits down with muscle car guru Mike Musto, who didn’t totally agree with Eddie’s take on the Golf GTI being Generation X’s Pontiac GTO, in Car Show episode 6. If yo

Our First Cars with Lake Bell and Rob Corddry

Eddie talks to Lake Bell and Rob Corddry about the cars that shaped their adolescent years and turned them into car geeks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform

The Volkswagen GTI was our Hero ft. Malcolm Gladwell

Proud VW evangelists Malcolm Gladwell and Eddie agitate for a reappraisal of the VW GTI as a historically monumental vehicle—at least to Gen Xers. See omnystudio.com/lis

The Chevrolet Corvair: How Safety Failed Us

The Corvair was Motor Trend’s Car of the Year for 1960, yet the car hit bottom just three years later. In this episode, how battles over safety shaped the future of the C

The Lunar Rover: The Most Important Car off this Earth

Why did we send a car to the moon? How did we design something for an environment we knew nothing about? How did we get it up there? Plus: a behind-the-scenes peek at GM’

The Porsche 928: Why Better Isn’t Always Best

The Porsche 928 was meant to replace the Porsche 911. Instead, it cemented the 911 as the Porsche icon. In this episode, Eddie investigates why the incredibly great Porsc