Podcast Doug and car guy Doug is way way better than used car salesman Doug.
I know this sub has cooled on him and Matt is well Matt but honestly this was one of the best car related listens for me this year.
I also love it when throttle house goes on smoking tire podcast.
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I put this on for 10 mins and ended up watching the whole thing. Both of them have a encyclopedia worth of car knowledge and it was fun to listen to them talk.
Also I’d love a porsche panamera!
I can’t watch Doug on the podcast, his car preferences are too niche lol
I wish Doug wasn’t so insecure about his lack of track experience. You don’t track your cars, fine. Don’t act like you know so much about track driving. I’ve seen him go off on people in this subreddit about how he’s good at track driving.
On this podcast he talked about tracking his Ford GT, CGT & A class.
Lol nobody tracks those cars. They aren’t good cars to track because they are so old and valuable, that it simply doesn’t make sense even if you have stupid money. He probably just pushed it hard one lap and called it a day lol. The people that track those cars do them in sanctioned events like how people will race the old classic Ferraris. You’ll never see a Ford GT on an open track day lol.
I know. That’s why I brought it up. Matt mentioned it was his first, Doug instantly jumped in and said it wasn’t. Doug didn’t know his times, he didn’t know which way the track was running. He exposed himself so quickly. Literally why I made that comment.
So what?
Thats pretty cringe tbh. I honestly can’t stand people like that. Its common among alot of influencers across all hobbies and activities. So many dudes are insecure and overcompensate. Never saw him as someone who was experienced at the track, just a guy who likes those really weird cars.
I feel like within the car community people resort to track driving as the ultimate way to experience a car and that your opinion is invalidated unless you have track driving experience. The fact that he bragged about tracking his Ford GT and his Carrera is hilarious becuase nobody in their right mind would track those cars and really push them hard.
I can’t go into details but I’ve been at events he was at and that’s just how he is. His head is naturally up his own ass.
He got going on with a guy he didn’t know who happened to be a retired European racing champion and it was pretty funny watching him talk down to a guy about high performance driving knowing who they both were. Oliver just stood there quiet and humble and took the wagging.
Throttle House were cool dudes though.
lol not to dox myself but I’ve spent some time with him by virtue of living about 5 blocks away. He’s kind of a prick
Yeah I can see that. He probably lives in an eco chamber, and unlike other top people in the community like Jason Camissa, he really is only there because of his videos, and his love for weird quirky cars lol.
Didn’t think it was that great an episode. I find ones where he interviews people at OEMs cooler.
Doug and Matt have such great rapport, there’s a reason the TST podcasts with Doug are the highest viewed
“THIS…” Doug makes me want to shove the handle of a wooden spoon in my pisshole. “Just chilling on a podcast or shooting the shit about cars” Doug is A-OK. I wish he’d built his fan base and video style off how he actually is and not on his dorkwad persona.
Right? I never could stand his car videos, and generally skip over things that mention him on here.
But he popped up in a Doughnut video where he and the guys were guessing the auction price of some cars. He seemed totally different
Completely agree - this was one of the best podcasts to just zone out to. Awesome convo. Favorite part was the discussion of the Sultan of Brunei’s collection.
I miss the TST doing One Takes on viewer cars and press cars
YouTube has changed over the years and I’m sure the garage is more stable to maintain and live off of… but it’s just not the same.
The One Take era was absolute peak content.
I remember the one where a guy brought a 2nd gen Camaro with basically no brakes, and I think that was close to the end of when Matt was doing viewer cars. Hard to blame him.
It had three “functioning” brakes and the guy only told Matt like halfway into the video. You could tell he was pissed but he handled it pretty cool.
Doug Shmug, I’ll skip it.
This was a great cast. Now on to the No.1 car podcast, Smith and Sniff!
Matt’s an clown yall say he’s a hard worker you’re confusing his need for attention with actual work ethic. Let’s hear some more about how he built the greatest parking garage ever wow so cool
I like Doug’s voice on here much better than in his videos.
For those who don’t know the background, every time Doug goes on TST he eats some junk food for the whole show. One time he housed a box of brownies. This time it was white chocolate Reese’s.
This was a great episode. Watching it feels like sessions I’ve had googling obscure cars with my car buddies, of which there are not many so it’s fun to watch others vibe out in a similar fashion. I’m a fan of the crew shows but this was one of their best in recent history.
I stopped listening to Doug years ago for the fact he got so many obvious things wrong and passed them off as fact. Has that changed?
What things did he get wrong? I’ve only watched his videos of cars I find interesting so I pass on a lot of his content.
I’m not the OP but in his latest video he remarked the outgoing Tacoma had a 4 liter V6. It doesn’t, it has a 3.5.
So car nerd type stuff.
As someone who is a dozen or so years older than Doug, it cracks me up when he goes on about some quirk or feature that an “old” car has and says something like “I have never seen this” when it is just a normal '80s car thing.
I dislike the way he talks and his repetition.
I don’t really care for Doug’s reviews anymore either but he’s still a great car nerd. This is the ideal setting for him. I prefer him on podcasts over his videos.
In the last few years Doug has started making videos on the car market in general. Those are gold and he gets it right in a way I don’t see anyone else even attempting. Videos like what is the collector car market cap. Any of the videos discussing Ford’s decision to drop cars. There’s a playlist on the channel called garage talk. That’s where the talent is.
The talent is not in his reviews. They’ve always been bad, shallow, inconsistent and worst of all he doesn’t know how to drive. I think he’s gotten big because children are YouTube’s largest audience and they love his channel. Luckily he’s continued to grow and capitalize on this success
Nope. Still gets things wrong while simultaneously chastising the manufacturer for “not including this” while it is included, he/the writers just never read the manual or sat in the car for longer than 10 minutes.
No. Same reason I can hardly watch him nowadays.
That, and watching him drive in heavy traffic and pretend to objectively review a sports car’s handling or acceleration. He’d be going in a straight line on the freeway and move the wheel a little, or take a right turn from zero as he talked about it lmao.
Obviously a lot of people like his content but I didn’t think it was aimed at car enthusiasts.
I think that part is realistic though, it’s important how cars feel on normal roads too.
Clearly he drives it else where and is summing up his thoughts on a onetake highway jaunt
I don’t see him as some overly skilled driver but he has addressed that he often does his spirited driving off camera and the driving segments are just a stage to talk about the impressions. I believe it’s something Matt Farah has addressed as well, some audiences don’t take well to pushing a car hard on the road especially as it often involves unsafe driving. Plus with Doug it’s kinda hard to convey fast driving in his format as well.
IMO his interior review/how he goes over it is the most informative and useful part of his videos.
I love his interior reviews for sure. I don’t care about anything beyond that. But I’ve watched every single Doug video since his Ferrari days. It’s really comfortable listening.
Like what?