On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, we show off photos of the least well cared for exotic car collection possibly ever, the difference between car enthusiasts who live where winters really happen, and where the temperature stays largely the same year round, and with that who actually gets more done. Volvo P1800s are going the way of the MK4 Supra this year, Minnesota upping 55MPH speed limits nearly state wide to 60 following an obvious $2.1M study, Erik isn't convinced its good news becau...
Jan 27, 2019•1 hr
On this episode of the MotorCult podcast, we talk Season 3 Grand Tour premiere finally dropping, the new Toyota Supra specs, and our frustration with the genera public's distain for the launch vehicle. BMW bringing enthusiast grade M3 with RWD and manual gearbox. Honda's excellent Urban EV concept is real, and we're not getting it for some reason, Tesla cutting 7% of its entire employment workforce on the hells of poor Q1 2019 sales. Motorcultpodcast Patreon: www.patreon.com/motorcult Motorcultp...
Jan 23, 2019•1 hr 16 min
On this episode of the MotorCult podcast, we welcome our first Patreon Patron Scott on the podcast to talk automotive laws, infrastructure design and configuration, and winter tire shopping suggestions for a beginner. Motorcultpodcast Patreon: www.patreon.com/motorcult Motorcultpodcast Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Top3relSWF9_MNYabwXlQ Motorcultpodcast Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/erik-berger-115940933 Motorcultpodcast iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/motor…d1363759412?mt=2 Motor...
Jan 20, 2019•1 hr 31 min
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, we discuss the mid engine Corvette and how GM will handle branding and selling it alongside the existing front engine rear drive platform that is the current corvette, we talk replica cars and whether or not they should be allowed in to make and or model specific shows alongside the real mccoy, we also found out that someone (at least one person) has crashed their car while blindfolded lending their inspiration to the Netflix movie 'birdbox', Chevy's rea...
Jan 16, 2019•1 hr 12 min
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, we talk California's $1000 exhaust tickets, Toyota Mexico dropping the curtain too early on the new Supra, Ford pulling even more interesting product out of their lineup, Toyota's new manual 4 door sedan called the Mark X, Chosen's Nissan Chronies cleaned out of the company following his jailing, Rivian's electric pickup and SUV finally gets actual pricing details, and the working pre production vehicles are filering around the detroit auto show, and fin...
Jan 13, 2019•1 hr
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, we talk MK4 Supra finally cracking $100,000, Audi foolishly cancelling their north american european delivery program, The Mobile podcast studio's new suspension, the new Porsche WET MODE, 1999 cars now elligible for collector plates that feel much younger, and Erik goes over the Dana Spicer V drive on Interesting Engineering Motorcultpodcast Patreon: www.patreon.com/motorcult Motorcultpodcast Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Top3relSWF9_MNYabwXlQ Mot...
Jan 09, 2019•1 hr
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, we talk Porsche turbocharging electric motors, an Arkansas mercedes dealer having to pay $5.8M to a customer after ferrari problems. Tesla drops entry price on all models by $2,000 to help lessen the blow of the now halved tax credit, a stupid man tried to scam his insurance company on his type 2 van in an odd way, someone lost 11 brand new 1994 BMW 5 series cars in Bulgaria, we understand why. Lastly, Kia sells over 17,000 Stinger models in 2018, an exc...
Jan 06, 2019•1 hr 7 min
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, we talk patreon once again! covering everything from in depth EV swap preferences, commute, cars and what actually matters in the traffic grind, perfect winter beaters, public transport vs enthusiasm, speed limits, and local driving roads. Motorcultpodcast Patreon: www.patreon.com/motorcult Motorcultpodcast Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Top3relSWF9_MNYabwXlQ Motorcultpodcast Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/erik-berger-115940933 Motorcultpodcast ...
Dec 29, 2018•59 min
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, we talk toyota supra and its new excellent sounding BMW straight 6 powerplant, VW models showing up at some dealers with a message on their cluster display thats a bit unsavory, 3D printed car parts expand yet again to monoblock brake calipers with Bugatti, Mankato, MN may play host to new motorsports and race track partk, we talk after market LED and HID bulks in stock housings, the 3000GT SLs currently way over valued market position, matt farah's mill...
Dec 25, 2018•1 hr 21 min
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, we cover the new Motortrend sponsored Facebook watch series '$3k hooptie challenge' which is excellent and you should watch it, the weird V8 powered GMT350 chassis crossovers are the strangest gen IV small block platform recipient, Grand Tour season 3 drops a trailer and a release date, season four will be dropping the tent, but we are in favor of it, and its a renewal! We also talk saddest Junk Yard finds. On this episode of the Motorcult Podcast, we br...
Dec 16, 2018•1 hr 9 min
On this episode of the Motorcult Podcast, we brief you on our upcoming branding change, our patreon only Discord channel for topics, The most excellent prius in the world has a 5.4 liter V8, Ryan covers some highlights from the R M Rotheby's Youngtimer collection, the Silverado HD coming in 2020 is so ugly, photoshoppers on the net are coming to its rescue in droves. The nD Miata power upgrade may prompt fiat to install their new 1.3 turbo in to the 124 spider, Aston unveils a new 11,100 RPM V12...
Dec 16, 2018•1 hr 3 min
On this episode of the Motorcult podcast, we welcome Richard Halkyard, a local cat, cat and beer enthusiast on the podcast to talk oddities of fleets, new zealand car culture and the standard questions. Our only news topic is covering a local car group benefiting the Minneapolis homeless encampment. Motorcultpodcast Patreon: www.patreon.com/motorcult Motorcultpodcast Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Top3relSWF9_MNYabwXlQ Motorcultpodcast Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/erik-berger-11594093...
Dec 12, 2018•1 hr 59 min
On this episode of the motorcult podcast, Erik drives a CVT hybrid CUV to the studio, Radwood in LA has some really fabulous iron, Tesla in talks with GM in regards to possibly purchasing one or multiple of the soon to be made redundant factories, France riots over a gas tax and burns an innocent Twingo and Fiat 500. MotorCultPodcast is not pleased. Motorcultpodcast Patreon: www.patreon.com/motorcult Motorcultpodcast Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Top3relSWF9_MNYabwXlQ Motorcultpodcast Soun...
Dec 09, 2018•1 hr 9 min
On this episode of the MotorCultPodcast, we welcome Brian Jannusch from top rank international vehicle importers back to discuss Skyline and other rare imported beasts, as well as speculating on their futures here and in Japan alike. Jeep finally drops the Gladiator, wrangler based pickup truck, We briefly cover drivers education, how its broken and offer a few pieces of advice for younger drivers and how to improve the system from our perspective, and Kia gives us hope for cheap, long range EVs...
Dec 05, 2018•1 hr 28 min
On this episode of the MotorCultPodcast, we talk the new Porsche Taycon based audi e-tron sedan, we share an update about Ghosn's racketeering, Rivian presents us a hopefully non vaporware EV pickup truck, Jana secretly designed a post modernist EV BMW Isetta, GM kills off 3 factories, 14,000 factory workers and nearly 5,000 executives due to Trump's idiotic terriffs, a brand new silverado refuses to start on the ice at a hockey game, and we talk Mazda's incredible detonation based skyactive X t...
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 4 min
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, we discuss some south africans who crazily turned a pro mod dragster in to a BMW E92 and even more absurdly powered it with a BMW engine! Go vote for #VOTY18 on randystern.net VW initiates another huge recall of 75,000 vehicles for faulty seat belts, Kimball Musk trolls fox news over Tesla board and plant a seed day, a BMW 507 heads to auction next week, we talk the amazing designs of Raymond Loewy, and a billet blocked SR20 breaks the 4 cylinder power r...
Nov 28, 2018•57 min
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, we welcome Shane Donahue from the cone coach podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cone-coach-podcast/id1224967365?mt=2 on the show to discuss our guest questions, and also the huge news story from Nissan re: their CEO Carlos Ghosn being ousted and arrested for $50M of embezzlement and home purchases in four countries. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cone-coach-podcast/id1224967365?mt=2
Nov 24, 2018•1 hr 23 min
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, we welcome Charles 'spaz' Miller to talk click bait Tesla Model 3 performance time attack disqualification, Ares. the coach builder builds a new DeTomaso Pantera on a Huracan base, Patreon structure is changing for 2019, Thanksgiving travel is going to suck and you know it, a group of russians dress as a bus to get across a vehicle only access road, and Erik sets plans in motion to buy high neighbors house to stop them from messing with his driveway. Mot...
Nov 21, 2018•57 min
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, we welcome Randy Stern of Victory and Reseda (randystern.net) for the #VOTY18 summary, Erik talks Genesis G70 and how its our obiwan, Ryan... doesn't hate Doug DeMuro anymore?! HRE and General Electric 3d print a carbon fiber and titanium wheel, MotorCult awards coming end of 2018, European Auto Garage is selling a 2.3 million dollar collection of awesome BMWs all at once, and Jed Copham of BIR dies in an unfortunate and untimely boating accident in Ft. ...
Nov 17, 2018•1 hr 25 min
On this episode of the MotorCult podcast, we talk DMCA ammendment allowing you to hack your modern car's electronics legally (FINALLY!), automatics being better in every way than dual or single clutch automated manual transmissions, Dodge's factory gets early 90s chrysler drunk and embroidered some tramp stamps on ONE seat of a few new 2019 Rams. Hyundai isn't giving us the i30N, we knew this, but we ARE getting the Veloster N with factory anti-lag, DeTomaso's Longchamp looks like an italian fox...
Nov 14, 2018•1 hr 7 min
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast we are all back from trips to talk about the Mobile Podcast Studio's new transmission, upcoming suspension replacement, the BMW G20 actually getting a manual transmission in Europe, SEMA being actually pretty rad this year, R129 SL600 suspension being controlled by its steering electronics, the design house Pony GTC4 Lusso 400i remake, the 1000 horsepower FCA Hellephant crate engine boasting 7 liters and a supercharger, the S800 Honda and electric vehicle...
Nov 10, 2018•1 hr 30 min
On this episode of the Motorcult podcast, we do a halloween themed episode covering best hearses, a strange factory airstream dead hauler, the spooky build quality debate between Tesla and Mitsubishi, the McLaren Speedtail, and we ask the question: Do you actually want to buy or lust after any car on the horizon? Motorcult Patreon: www.patreon.com/motorcult Motorcult Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Top3relSWF9_MNYabwXlQ Motorcult Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/erik-berger-1159409...
Oct 31, 2018•57 min
On this episode of the MotorCult podcast, we talk Millenials and how they are not actually ruining the future of cars, and cover a lot of the reasons why people think this generation isn't in to cars. The cheaper Tesla model 3 already got a price increase after 48 hours, Canadians are trying to ban JDM vehicles, Volvo hit it out of the park with the new S60 styling, Why Porsche's 924 was such a half measure, and the BMW G80 M3 is coming with a 6-speed manual transmission! Motorcult Patreon: www....
Oct 30, 2018•1 hr 8 min
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, we talk autonomous vehicles and how they'll only displace gas cars we don't want to drive, and people who don't want to drive them from the roads, leaving manual gas vehicles around for enthusiasts, How everyone needs to love the Dodge Demon, NHTSA finally approving high tech headlights for US on road usage, prefacelift vehicles that look considerably better than their post facelift counterparts, and when do you draw the line on an old set of tires? On t...
Oct 24, 2018•1 hr 5 min
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, We talk BMW's insanely ugly X7 production photos being relased, Frederic Asabo looking eerily like RObbie Rotten from Lazytown, The murcielago has arrived! the Kia stinger GT needing a manual option to mirror its G70 twin, Tesla announces its mid range model 3 battery option, along with a paltry price break, removes self driving wording from the web site option, and Mazda's variable final drive manual transmission on Interesting Engineering! Motorcult Pa...
Oct 20, 2018•59 min
On this episode of the MotorCult podcast, we welcome not one or two, but THREE guests. Tyler Christopherson, Molly Anne of Never55 productions along with Alex Bellus of Alex Bellus Photorgraphy to talk Kannonball Run, Kannonball Fun, Never55 productions, Cactusball Rally, and Mn Cars and Coffee. We also conclusively tell you which version of the Mercedes SL was best, Jaguar going all EV potentially in the next 5 years, How to best prepare a vehicle for winter usage and the least amount of degrad...
Oct 17, 2018•1 hr 32 min
On this episde of the MotorCult podcast we talk Beer, 5 cars that are unsurprisingly not selling well in the USA and why and we take on not one but TWO patreon topics about acnowledging drivers of the same make and model on the road, and 'replace my car' section where we go over what we would replace a specific list of vehicles with had they been unexpectedly totaled. Ryan also has ideas on how to save Nascar, and Erik found a 2.0T Tiguan where it belongs. The junk yard. Motorcult Patreon: www.p...
Oct 13, 2018•1 hr 26 min
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, Erik and Ryan invite Pristine Detail on the podcast to talk cars, their business, JDM car culture and fun stories before talking about the Porsche tractor race at the 2018 Rinnsport reunion, BaT is on fire this week with incredible vehicles, the BMW G20 3-series officially (and stupidly) drops the 6 speed transmission option, Mazda may bring back the rotary engine, but unfortunately not how you might think for an application. Elon Musk steps down as chai...
Oct 10, 2018•1 hr 33 min
On this episode of the MotorCult Podcast, Erik invites Jon Hauri, a fellow local BMW E30 enthusiast to help walk through the entire inception, lifespan and death of the BMW E30 3 series chassis. 'THE E30 Episode' Motorcult Patreon: www.patreon.com/motorcult Motorcult Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Top3relSWF9_MNYabwXlQ Motorcult Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/erik-berger-115940933 Motorcult iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/motorcult/id1363759412?mt=2 Motorcult Blog: h...
Oct 08, 2018•1 hr 48 min
On this episode of the MotorCult podcast, we're out of the stupid and coming to you from Flat Earth brewing in St Paul from the Drive Cartel cars and craft event. Ryan and Erik talk Elko eve of destruction, the CVT and GM's 60 year old TurboGlide double torque converter CVT, We discuss GM selling customer data collected through onstar about music listening history, and Elon Musk ousted on Tesla board of directors after SEC lawsuit over stock market trading law issues.
Oct 03, 2018•35 min
