Podcast Episodes

TEASER: Super Bowl Roundup

It's our annual Super Bowl roundup, where we analyze the car ads that ran during the Big Game and ask what they say about driving and, more importantly, U.S. culture. This year's ads included Will F…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

The War on Cars Turns 100

Episode 100

This marks the 100th episode of The War on Cars, and we're feeling pretty good about it! In our centenary edition, we go all the way back to Episode 1 and ask what we got right, what we got wrong—and…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

TEASER: Cars, Consumerism and Climate

What does the recent culture-war freakout over gas stoves have in common with efforts to maybe, possibly, just a little, pretty please, slightly reduce the many harms of automobiles, especially larg…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Car Brain with Dr. Ian Walker

Episode 99

Is it acceptable to harm another person? To steal someone's private property? To bend health and safety rules just to save a few minutes or make more money? According to a new study, it might depend …

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

The High Cost of Free Parking with Donald Shoup

Episode 98

Parking is at the heart of every fight about how we build our cities and towns, with effects that go far beyond transportation. Minimum parking requirements  — laws that dictate how many parking spac…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Deconstructing Muscle Car City

Episode 97

In Part 1, Welcome to Muscle Car City, we met Denys da Menace, a young New York City guy who does "donuts" and "burnouts" in a souped-up Dodge Charger as part of the Brooklyn Hemi Boyz car club. The…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

RERELEASE: There Are No Accidents with Jessie Singer

***Happy holidays! This is a rerelease of our interview with Jessie Singer, the author of There Are No Accidents, which originally came out in February 2022 as Episode 80. It's one of our favorite ep…

Published on 3 years ago

TEASER: What We Knew About Elon

It's been hard to escape the ongoing disaster that is Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. But anyone who has been paying attention to Musk's understanding of transportation (or lack thereof) as well as…

Published on 3 years ago

Three is the Magic Number with Mike Radenbaugh

We headed over to our sponsor Rad Power Bikes' new Brooklyn showroom last week to meet with founder and CEO Mike Radenbaugh and test drive his newly launched three-wheeler, the Rad Trike. The trike …

Published on 3 years ago

Muscle Car City: We Are in the Movie

Episode 96

In the spring of 2021, War on Cars co-host Aaron Naparstek started noticing lots of big loud muscle cars rumbling around New York City emblazoned with Instagram accounts. He began following cars on s…

Published on 3 years ago