The Smoking Tire goes on a week long adventure in three new BMW s. In part 1, we find out how the Mini Countryman S works as a turret.

Enjoy 10% off 6” and 8.5” MOVA Globes with code SMOKINGTIRE. Shop now on https://bit.ly/TSTMOVAGlobes The Mustang Mach-E, Ford s new electric crossover, was so good when Matt first reviewed it, that he bought one for an every day car. But being good and being a "Mustang" are not the same thing. We ve got the new Mustang Mach 1, the car that ostensibly lent its name to the crossover, and when you drive them back to back, to quote Katt Williams, "It only look like a [Mustang] until a Mustang pull up." Matt and Zack discuss the merits and drawbacks of this naming scheme. Use Off The Record! and ALWAYS fight your tickets! Enter code TST10 for a 10% discount on your first case on the Off The Record app, or go to https://off-the-record.sjv.io/c/2765520/1021446/13139 Follow us! T: @thesmokingtire @zackklapman IG: @thesmokingtire @fakezackklapman Check out our PODCAST! Over 100,000 listeners and counting! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thesmokingtirepodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4nl2RnapQB8ChnkuPMfjnu Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-smoking-tire/id496797178 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9jMlJ6VEd0YQ?sa=X&ved=0CA0QrrcFahcKEwiQ5Oeno4ruAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ NEW SHIRTS! https://www.blipshift.com/tst How Much Mustang Is the Electric Mach-E, When You Have the New Mach-1 Too? - Two Takes #fordmustang #mustangmachE

Check out the next big thing in car buying with Imagine Autos! https://imagineautos.com/ and thanks for sponsoring todays video! Steve Dinan, legendary BMW tuner and racer, is back with a new project from his new company CarBahn! The BMW M8 is already very fast, but with some of Steve s trademarked special tweaks, it becomes simply incredible. 880 Crank horsepower on 100 octane, or 825 horsepower on regular pump gas means that, with the AWD and revised suspension setup, this thing is a 9-second missile good for well over 200 mph! BUT THAT"S NOT ALL! He s revised the suspension, wheel and tire setup so it handles *incredibly* and the package isn t even all that expensive at under $25,000 for the whole shebang! Watch the podcast with Steve Dinan here, or get it on your favorite podcast app. https://youtu.be/7tVNofCCfCY CarBahn provided the vehicle, insurance and a tank of fuel for this review. #BMWM8 #cars #CarBahn Use Off The Record! and ALWAYS fight your tickets! Enter code TST10 for a 10% discount on your first case on the Off The Record app, or go to https://off-the-record.sjv.io/c/2765520/1021446/13139 Follow us! T: @thesmokingtire @zackklapman IG: @thesmokingtire @fakezackklapman Check out our PODCAST! Over 100,000 listeners and counting! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thesmokingtirepodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4nl2RnapQB8ChnkuPMfjnu Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-smoking-tire/id496797178 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9jMlJ6VEd0YQ?sa=X&ved=0CA0QrrcFahcKEwiQ5Oeno4ruAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ NEW SHIRTS! https://www.blipshift.com/tst

The Smoking Tire proudly presents, our first feature-length film, "All Cars Go To Heaven!" What happens when we try to drive 600 miles off-road in a horrible Craigslist Car from Portland, Oregon, across the border into Canada? If the car doesn t make it, we ll never know. All Cars Go to Heaven is Available Now! Www.thesmokingtire.com/film

The Smoking Tire attends the 2014 Rally North America s US 50 Rally to celebrate their 5th Anniversary. Rally North America was founded on the principles that all rallies provide a real benefit towards a charity, that they should be open to anyone, and that they should offer interesting checkpoints along spectacular roads. This year, Rally North America raised over $108,000 for the Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis! To donate to the cause, check out: http://www.acceleratedcure.org/ To sign up for the next Rally North America Event, check out: http://www.rallynorthamerica.com

The Smoking Tire s Matt Farah is invited to be a guest judge and pace car driver at the 24 Hours of Lemons season ender at Buttonwillow Raceway. Since Formula One uses AMG Safety Cars, so will we.

In the first new iteration of our new sub-series "One Take," Matt does a full car review of the chock-full-o-technology Cadillac XTS in exactly one take.

Matt attends the Motor Press Guild s annual track day, where he gets to drive a wide variety of cars at Willow Springs. To Celebrate passing 300,000 YouTube Subscribers, we re uploading 11 videos in 11 days! Today, we re driving the MKVII Volkswagen GTI! It s bigger, faster, and more luxurious than ever before, but is it the best GTI on track?

Matt attends the Motor Press Guild s annual track day, where he gets to drive a wide variety of cars at Willow Springs. To Celebrate passing 300,000 YouTube Subscribers, we re uploading 11 videos in 11 days! Today we re driving the Twin-Turbo, 420 HP Cadillac CTS VSport. Until the full on V comes out next year, this is the fastest CTS you can buy, and its engine does not disappoint. But about those brakes....

Matt gets a run on the famous Angeles Crest Highway in a lightly modified second-generation Mazda Miata.

RevoTechnik tuner of all things Turbocharged, invited The Smoking Tire out to the beautiful Summit Point Raceway in West Virginia to test a few of their cars. The VW Golf Sportwagen replaces the outgoing Jetta Sportwagen here in the US. Revo s Stage 1 kit includes an air intake, cat back exhaust, and a tune, and this car also features Revo s lowering spring kit, cast 19" wheels. Learn more about Revotechnik at: http://www.revotechnik.com/ http://www.twitter.com/revotechnikusa http://www.facebook.com/revotechnikusa

The Smoking Tire attends Rally North America s "Smoky Mountain Rally" from Knoxville to Savannah in the Mercedes GLE63 AMG. Rally North America is a charity organization that raised over $115,000 for Hope For the Warriors on its way across the south. On day 1, we drive from Knoxville, TN to Hendersonville, NC, hitting the Blue Ridge Parkway and Cherahola Skyway in between. To donate, please visit: http://www.hopeforthewarriors.org To join the next rally, visit http://www.rallynorthamerica.com

The EXR-LV02, also known in Europe as the Mitjet, is a 1600 lb, 240 HP spec race car. Exotics Racing, a company known primarily for offering supercar track experiences in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, is starting a racing series for these cars for 2016, open to both professional and amateur drivers. To learn more about the EXR Racing Series, please visit: http://www.exrseries.com To learn more about Exotics Racing s Supercar Experience, please visit: http://www.exoticsracing.com

The BMW M2 is front and center on the hype train: the successor to the wildly exciting and collectible 1M Coupe, the M2 combines a very strong, 365 HP Turbo Inline Six, manual gearbox, and wide fender flares over a short wheelbase, at a price much lower than the benchmark M4. On the racetrack at the Gridlife Motorsports and Music Festival is where it s really going to shine. Learn more about GRIDLIFE at: http://www.grid.life Title Photo: Andrew Perry

While at Willow Springs filming the incredible LS1-powered E46 M3 Drift Car, Matt and Zack couldn t help but play a little game of "Drift Horse" in the Camaro SS. Not as easy as it looks!

Dillon Optics are the official eyewear of The Smoking Tire! To get a free TST Shirt with order, go to: http://thesmokingtire.com/partners-1/ and click on the DILLON banner! This first-generation Honda Insight is interesting in that it was Honda s first entry into the Hybrid space, as well as being a full-on traditional manual transmission. Unlike Toyota s prius, which alternates between gas and electric drive (I m paraphrasing), the Insight uses both at the same time, all the time, operating more like a traditional sports car. The Insight s hybrid system is one of the few that can be modified for more power, and even though this one has nearly 300,000 miles on the clock, it shows little signs of wear. Check it out on Wheelwell! https://goo.gl/0jCDJR

Take advantage of the TST discount for Piloti Shoes and other driving accessories at Driving Gear using code TSTFAN at checkout! http://www.driving-gear.com The Mazda MX5 Cup is a factory-built spec race car based on the MX5 Miata Roadster street car. While it uses the standard drivetrain from the MX5, it is beefed up a bit for track work, and features extensive chassis, suspension, and brake upgrades; also included are slick tires. The MX5 Cup is razor sharp and a riot to drive. Transcript: Good morning, everybody! Welcome to the Thermal Club Racetrack, a beautiful facility outside of Palm Springs, California where the kind people at Mazda motorsport have invited me to drive the race car. This is not a converted street car it has the standard 2-liter SKYACTIV engine. I may not talk so much during the driving because it s - you know - the race cars require a little bit of focus but hopefully, you guys will get a really good idea of what it s like to drive this. This thing is $58,900 as tested and that s for an out the door, ready-to-race car. You just bring your own seat and, as a tall person, I can tell you it s comfortable so let s fire it up! Ignition on, and start button, and that s it and now we re ready to go out on the track! Can I get a thumbs up from somebody? Thumbs up? Okay, we re clear. Let s get our mirrors ready and here we go, we re going to head out on thermal this is going to be really fun; my practice session in this thing was absolutely kick-ass. This is a really fun car to drive, as I will demonstrate. This thing is really light, really tight; you can really feel the rigidity, lots of extra grip from the slick tires. The steering feels a lot more direct than the road car and it s much more planted and firm. Beautiful little track here; a lot of fun for this car. Supposed to run much wide here, much wide, up and over these s s. Oh yeah now I ve got a little more grip in these tires. Now I m just worried I m gonna stuff the thing! That s really an entry speed corner there. Really good - really good pedal feel, both in the brakes and the accelerator; easy to modulate. This car s a little ripper, man; it s only 2300 pounds. I can really - in these slow corners - I can break it to one and a half, no problem. This thing is an absolute riot! Really liking the trailbraking rotating under braking. I raced the older version of his car with Road and Track in the American Endurance Racing series and this car s around 200 pounds lighter than the old car. Our other race car does not have slicks and AER is a street tire series so the levels of grip aren t exactly comparable Come down, come down, come down. Go, go, go, go, go! Second gear s really short it s really easy to hit the rev limiter on that. Wide, wide, wide, wide, wide into the return road. Back out late on the left, late on the left. Maybe if I could smooth it out a little this time, get the car to move around a little bit less. Probably also a little less there and trail brake a little harder but. Go go go go! Smooth, smooth, smooth! It feels like short shifting third but, in actuality, second gear is very very short and most racetracks are going to be taken in third and fourth year in this car. This is a blast, though! I would love to be racing this car. I get smoked but I think for my first time on this car, my first time on this track, I m doing okay. Wide wide wide wide wide! Constant radius, over the top, late late late. Oh, this was great! This car, you know $58,000 for an MX-5 really sounds like an awful lot of money when you compare it to - you know - street cars, a Corvette, a Shelby, something like that. When you talk about a fully prepped race car with the reliability of an MX-5 ready to race out of the box, there s something right about this you know after driving the MX-5 street car and then getting into this I immediately know where the $25,000 went. It is not like, "Ah, they re ripping me off!" You drive this and it feels like a sorted car. The brakes are really bang on, you know a lot of people have been through this so the tires have been have been worn in pretty good by now and it s very hot out here so that explains a little of the slip-sliding but - you know - to have the safety stuff and the fire stuff and the fuel cell, the cage, the data pack. I can fit, it s comfortable, it s just lovely to drive it really is. It s predictable and obviously, if you get a little out of sorts you can recover it without much trouble so I want to thank first, the people at Mazda for inviting me out to do this; this is a wonderful little treat.

Get The Smoking Tire limited tee for just a short time at: http://www.teespring.com/stores/thesmokingtire The Baja Outlaw 26 is a five-seat, single engine speed boat with a small forward cabin and a v-berth. It features a 380 HP 8.2L Mercury Marine V8 engine, throttle by wire, and a deep-vee hull for high-speed stability in chop. Matt gets to take the boat to its top speed of 65 mph and see why boats like this are actually a solid value in performance. Special thanks to Iconic Marine Group in Washington, NC for this test. To learn more about Baja speed boats visit: http://www.bajamarine.com/ http://www.iconicmarinegroup.com/

The One Takes will continue! So many of proposed (and supported) the idea of Zack continuing the One Take series, that s that is what we re doing. Matt will keep reviewing cars, just less frequently, so he s handing the torch of to @zackklapman, a Smoking Tire O.G. If you don t know who Zack is, there s some links below to help you out. We ll put on our fire suits and meet you in the comments. 911 vs Viper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhlqsgkB5w&t=266s Miata Review/Tank Slapper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhDaG83go9U R8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4ZeqYERF_I

Get your 1st month of treatment FREE! https://www.keeps.com/tst Keep the hair you have and STOP hair loss today! Click the link and either select the right plan, or let a Keeps doctor pick a plan for you. Thanks to Keeps for sponsoring this video The Honda Civic Si, new for this year, slots in between the Civic Sport, which we tested in 2017, and the track-ready Type R, which we drove at Road Atlanta. With 205 HP (easily tunable for more) from the 1.5T engine and a starting price of just $24,000, the Si could be a winner. Check out the Civic Sport Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6TS_02FV2o And the Type R Review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71U79TDHlTc I screwed up on when the first Civic Si hit America. I knew the CRX Si came to us in 1985, but was lookin for the first date we got a coupe or sedan, and I missed a line mentioning the Si went on a hatch in 1986. 4th repeats 3rd, where we got the CRX Si first, then a hatch Si 1 year later. I’m a dumb.- ZK