The Chat Garage's Podcast

While the long awaited Maserati Grecale appeared, Aston Martin has broken the web with the new V12 Vantage. We will cover both, and give our opinion. Last but not least, a kind of restomod by Porsche… Will it be the 996 the new to come back in fashion?

Tex is in love, the new Morgan Super3 is just amazing and John didn’t need a lot to be convinced as well. We can’t say the same for the leaked images of the next Ferrari SUV, But better to wait. Oslo has covered the RML’s 250GT development and an interesting Hydrogen V8 engine made by Yamaha!

If rumours like the next AMG GT and IC engine seem to be what will await us in the next Bugatti, Tesla confirmed that Cybertruck might not be ready this year. We cover a wired speedster based on a Gallardo, the Monterossa, but the main star of the episode is the Ford Bronco Raptor (plus the Pope Francis special edition)! Last but not least Mini is offering an IC conversion for their iconic old models.

With the CES of Las Vegas we have plenty of news, at first the Mercedes EQXX, but also a new Turkish car made with Pininfarina called TOGG, new prototype wheels by Hankook and much more! Also BMW presented a very cool new feature for a color changing paint. Toyota teased us with the ultimate Yaris GR, the GRMN and some interesting patent from Mazda apprised online…

And here we are with another ended championship. Extreme E this weekend, with a very close match between RXR and X44 teams. Really wrong year for Hamilton, takenk the second spot also with his team! F1 is still under noise with Mercedes complaints and Ferrare working hard to be competitive. Last but not least, the new toy for Ken Block by Audi.. the Audi S1 E-tron Quattro Hoonitron!

One of the best F1 championships in history has finished, or not? While Mercedes is still trying to win it on paper, Max Verstappen and Redbull have won in a last lap overtake the driver world title!

There are plenty of words to describe the last F1 race, but crazy works are probably better than all the others! Listen to the episode to know better what happened and what's our take on that. We didn't cover only F1 because Nissan presented their newest GT500 car, based on the 400Z and we have a new Italian world champion in the Gran Turismo Sport World Cup!

While the BMW M4 GT4 has been presented and the GT3 version was introduced to Assetto Corsa Competizione, Tex has bought new cars for Assetto Corsa during the Black Friday, bringing to life some Fia GT vibes from early 2000. We could not avoid paying a tribute somehow to an iconic figure such as Sir Frank Williams. We covered some of the best Williams F1 cars in history. Just to conclude, an electric Lancia Delta will join the next season of RallyCross and for some reason John likes it!

If WRC came to an end, whith Toyota winning the title with Sébastien Ogier, F1 is more open than ever! only 8 points between Hamilton and Verstappen, but the last race also gave us an amazing podium for Alonso! Between major topics we also touched a mysterious Formula made by BMW only for SimRacing and some Formula E market maneuver.

With the race at Valencia for MotoGP, not only the championship comes to an end. Valentino Rossi had his last race, Ducati took the full podium and Honda is in more trouble than ever with both riders injured! F1 gave us a reminder on why Hamilton deserved all his 7th title, with an amazing race in Brazil, where he fought back all the problems! In the end we had a glimpse on what will be next race cars from BMW, with the LMDh, and the ‘vette with the Z06 GT3.

In this episode we started with a crazy F1 start form the Mexican GP, but the rest of the race was not that entertaining… Our episode instead has more to offer, with the recap from MotoGP at Portimao, some McLaren interest in ExtremeE and the WEC season finale with a back to back race in Bahrain!

After a quick recap on the 2h of Portimao for the LeMans Cup, we covered extensively the F1 in Texas with a battle on the clock between the two title contenders and something more active in the middlefield. A busy weekend for Italy in motorsport with the Misano GP for the MotoGP, also the last race in Italy for Valentino Rossi, and the crazy bumpy Extreme E in Sardinia!

WRC in Spain offers us again a battle between the Yaris and the Hyundai i20 and while we are waiting for this weekend of F1 and MotoGP we covered some speculations on what will be next year in F1! New calendar and maybe a rebranded team… Then we covered our first weekend on The Chat Garage server for Assetto Corsa where we played with some gorgeous 60’s GT cars!