The automotive world is filled with podcastsand these podcasts are overwhelmingly simply two or three dudes sitting round Shure SM7B microphones to speak concerning the newest and biggest in top-dollar automotive innovation. However, for many automotive fanatics, that is not precisely relatable — most individuals won’t ever be fortunate sufficient to hoon a McLaren, Ferrari, or Porsche on the ragged edge. So what would a podcast for the remainder of the automotive world seem like?
It could look so much like “Tran Girlismo,” the brand new podcast from on-and-off Jalopnik author Victoria Scott and good friend of the location Jordan Hofstetter. The pair are each lifelong automotive fanatics with deep ties to Jalopnik — they even reference items like Scott’s overview of the Dodge Challenger and former EIC Rory Carroll’s overview of the Bugatti Chiron from our hallowed pages within the debut episode — who’ve discovered their love of all issues on 4 wheels waning in recent times. The podcast, at the least in its preliminary episode, goals to deal with one easy query: Why?
Why does automotive tradition really feel so out of attain?
Listening to Scott and Hofstetter speak about how automotive tradition has grown increasingly more financially out of attain recently rings very true to me. Lovers automobiles just like the Supras and S2000s the pair of hosts respectively owned years in the past, have since skyrocketed in worth, whereas wages have remained the identical, which means they in all probability would not have the ability to afford the identical automobiles at the moment. I’ve additionally owned loads of efficiency automobiles prior to now that I could not afford to purchase now. They even get into how that lack of entry to efficiency automobiles impacts race tracks, who can now not depend on a gradual stream of revenue from fanatics scraping collectively change from the sofa to go racing.
“Tran Girlismo” is, at the least in its first episode, an automotive podcast that talks concerning the unlucky realities of being an fanatic within the 12 months of our lord 2026, and contours up trigger and impact to clarify how issues bought so dangerous. The hosts additionally supply hopeful avenues for the longer term, like sim racing, which might allow us to all expertise monitor driving even once we’re priced out of the true factor. And sometime, optimistically, I will bully my means on to the podcast and promote them on a budget velocity of motorcycling. The podcast is ready to launch weekly on Victoria Scott’s Patreon, and may also be discovered on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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