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Plus, someone drives onto elevated train tracks because their GPS told them to.\n\n______________________________________________\n\n\n\n🛠️ RaceDeck - Transform Your Garage\n\nGet 15% off garage flooring!\n\nhttps://RaceDeck.com/SCR\n\n\n\n🫧 Meguiar's - 125 Years of Passion\n\nPremium products to clean, restore, and protect your vehicle\n\nhttps://meguiarsdirect.com/collections/new\n\n\n\n💧 Pocket Hose - The #1 Expanding Hose in the World\n\nText SPIKE to 64000 to get a FREE Pocket Pivot and 10-Pattern Sprayer with Purchase of the Pocket Hose Ballistic!\n\n\n\n🪙 Acre Gold - Gold Investment Has Never Been Easier\n\n Visit https://GetAcreGold.com/SPIKE911 to start building your gold stash!\n\n\n\n🛞 Vredestein - Car, SUV, Van, and Light Truck Tires\n\nDemand a better tire. Demand Vredestein.\n\nhttps://vredestein.com\n\n\n\nGRAB SOME SCR MERCH:\n\nhttps://spikescarradio.com\n\n\n\nGET MORE SCR ON PATREON:\n\nhttps://www.patreon.com/spikescarradio\n\n______________________________________________\n\n\n\nIn this episode, the crew breaks down Donut's core philosophy: keep it educational, keep it entertaining, and make sure it's accessible to people who aren't already rich. That last part is why Porsche content historically tanks on their channel.\n\n\n\nThey get into the nuts and bolts of Donut's hit series HiLow (does more expensive actually mean more better?) plus the Low Truck Tacoma build, the Red Bull Soapbox race where a hollow 3D-printed Vin Diesel lost his head mid-run, and a fuel economy experiment in a supercharged Mustang. Nolan also walks back his take on RWB wide-body Porsches once the functional logic behind them clicks.\n\n\n\nOn the controversy side: the latest HiLow season landing on Tubi upset fans, but Nolan explains the business reality of keeping the lights on while promising a YouTube return. And Spike tells the full story of how Jerry Seinfeld's brutally honest Huel live read got the show dropped from their ad roster.\n\n\n\nThey close out with the electric Ferrari Luce debate, the Porsche Macan EV that actually drives like a Porsche, and a clueless driver who ended up on Seattle's elevated light rail tracks because she trusted her GPS.\n\n_____________________________________________\n\n\n\n📧 To advertise with Spike’s Car Radio, contact Neon Tiger Media:\n\ncontact@neontiger.media\n\n🌐 or visit:\n\nhttps://scrpod.com/sponsor\n\n\n\nProduced by \n\nSkyview Entertainment\n\n&\n\nQ6 Media\n\nhttps://q6.media\n\n______________________________________________\n\n\n\nTimestamps:\n\n00:00 - Introducing Nolan and Joe\n\n03:46 - How to get hired at Donut\n\n12:39 - The prestige of Porsche\n\n19:43 - 1984 Nissan 300ZX showcase\n\n28:21 - HiLow modified Toyota Tacoma showcase\n\n33:44 - The HiLow drama\n\n43:29 - How to win a soapbox derby\n\n52:27 - How to get 100MPG in a gas guzzler\n\n59:48 - What it's like to work at Donut\n\n1:06:01 - Why the Ferrari Luce is so controversial\n\n1:12:23 - The worst drivers in the world\nLearn more about your ad choices. 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