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Stop Buying EVs You Don’t Need | MotoMan Podcast # 031

Are EVs actually failing—or did the automotive industry simply promise too much, too soon? This week on the MotoMan Podcast, George sits down with EVgo product leader Al

He Went From Selling Buses to Running Mercedes | MotoMan Podcast # 030

How does a young engineer from the Greek island of Crete go from selling buses to leading Mercedes-Benz in America? Dimitris Psillakis never mapped out the career that f

Can Slate Actually Deliver a $25K Truck?

Slate is promising a $25,000 electric truck with no traditional trim levels, no sprawling options list and a radically different approach to personalization. But can that

They Called Him Unreliable. Then He Proved Them Wrong | MotoMan Podcast # 028

Chris Benjamin’s path to the top of automotive design was anything but straightforward. Long before becoming Chief Design Officer at Scout Motors, Benjamin arrived at de

The Opposite Of A Tesla Is The Next Classic | MotoMan Podcast # 027

What will car collectors want when today’s roads are filled with electric, autonomous computers on wheels? According to Tommy Mica of TFLcar, the answer may be the exact

The Jeff Bezos Startup Doing Less On Purpose | MotoMan Podcast # 026

Slate Auto has been described as a Jeff Bezos-backed EV startup building a $25,000 electric truck — but that is only part of the story. In this episode of the MotoMan Po

He Failed Engineering. Then Ran Nissan Design | MotoMan Podcast # 025

Most car designers are supposed to follow a path. Alfonso Albaisa did not. Before he became the global design leader behind Nissan’s future, he was a Cuban-American kid

Why Designing Motorcycles Is Harder Than Cars | MotoMan Podcast # 024

Greg Tada left software development to chase something far more personal: motorcycles. In this episode of the MotoMan Podcast, Greg joins MotoMan at ArtCenter to tell th

Why AMG Bought This Secret EV Tech | MotoMan Podcast # 023

What happens when a university engineering project completely upends the power dynamics of the world's most elite supercar manufacturers? In this episode of the MotoMan

How A Homeless Kid Cracked The Game • Read Choi | MotoMan Podcast # 022

What happens when you apply the brutal discipline of elite military training and the high-stakes pressure of a two-Michelin-star kitchen to the wild west of the modern di

The Ex-Tesla Executive Building the EV Porsche Refuses to Make | MotoMan Podcast # 021

What happens when you take the collective genius behind Tesla, Lucid, and BYD, and use it to build an EV that completely rejects Silicon Valley tech bloat? In this episo

They Wanted to Cancel the Tundra. This Man Stopped Them.

In this exclusive vault episode of the MotoMan Podcast, MotoMan goes behind the scenes at Toyota’s North American R&D center with legendary former Chief Engineer Mike Swe

The Man Who Decides What Cars Are Worth | MotoMan Podcast #019

What does it take to become the ultimate authority on classic car values? In this special vault episode, MotoMan sits down with Dave Kinney—the founder and the publisher

Hacking Mercedes: From DIY Car Internet to CEO of R&D | MotoMan Podcast #018

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Philipp Skogstad, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, to discuss the radical shift in how the world’s oldest

How "Walmart Top Gear" Built a Media Empire | MotoMan Podcast #017

How do you build a global automotive media brand from a "B-Tier" city with no budget and zero industry connections? You get scrappy. Today on the MotoMan Podcast, we sit

I Was 24, Broke, and 50k in Debt: How I Became a Corvette Legend | MotoMan Podcast #016

What does it actually take to become a racing legend? For Ron Fellows, it wasn’t a silver spoon—it was a shovel. In this episode, the Corvette icon pulls back the curtai

Inside Tesla Before the World Caught On | MotoMan Podcast #015

For over 30 years, Simon Sproule has been inside the rooms where the biggest decisions in the car industry get made. From working alongside Elon Musk at Tesla… To witne

From Doomscrolling TikTok to 11.8 Million Followers: Forrest Jones | MotoMan Podcast #014

What happens when a hobby born out of "doomscrolling" turns into a global audience of 11.8 million people? In this episode, we sit down with Forrest Jones, the pioneer of

The Business of Fun: How Vaughn Gittin Jr. Built the RTR Empire | MotoMan Podcast #013

Most people see the smoke and the sideways Mustangs, but they don't see the payroll, the sleepless nights, or the massive career gamble that started it all. In this episo

The Man Behind the Chiron & Huracán Built His Own Car Company • Sasha Selipanov | MotoMan Podcast #012

In this episode of the MotoMan Podcast, Sasha Selipanov shares the story behind some of the most important modern performance cars — and why he ultimately left the bigges