Fast car talk with lived-in opinions.
Driving While Awesome treats car enthusiasm like a running group chat with microphones. The conversation moves from Santa Cruz meetups and auction temptations to Porsche talk, F1 side notes, Japan travel, Radwood finds, and the strange social life around cars.
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Driving While Awesome is an automotive hangout with a Santa Cruz pulse and a very specific kind of memory. It is quick. The regular voices jump from weather, travel, auctions, and event parking lots into detailed arguments about what makes a car desirable, overhyped, funny, ruined, or secretly perfect. Recent episodes spend time at Morning Motors, Radwood Amelia, Luft Tokyo, a rally to the Magarigawa Club, and the F.A.T. Ice Race conversation orbit, while also wandering through F1, track days, rare Porsches, and the social codes of car culture. The show likes names, trims, colors, eras, and tiny visual details. A silver-over-red Singer Turbo can spark a whole theory of the ideal car. A Suzuki Carry or a 2008 Mustang GT can become part of the scene report. A Lancia Delta Integrale can be admired and warned against in the same breath. That push-pull is the appeal. Driving While Awesome rarely treats cars as museum objects; it treats them as things people drive, chase, modify, overpay for, defend, mock, and remember. The conversation can be messy in the way real enthusiast talk is messy. One thread leads to another. Someone self-corrects, someone adds a reference, someone remembers a car from an event, and the point arrives a few beats later. The show is especially strong when it connects machines to the people around them, as in the memorial re-air for Phil croc gt4 and the stories around dawn patrol, rallies, and Carmel. It has plenty of opinions, but it is not stiff about them. The tone is warm, dry, and a little irreverent. Listeners looking for polished buyer's-guide structure may find it wandering. Listeners who want the texture of car friends comparing notes after a meet will recognize it immediately.
Made for: For car enthusiasts who like scene reports, oddball details, Porsche talk, Radwood-era nostalgia, and loose debates about what is actually worth wanting. It especially fits listeners who enjoy conversation over formal reviews.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its social texture: event memories, auction reactions, travel notes, and old-car warnings all arrive through quick banter rather than scripted segments. It feels close to the car community it covers.
Driving While Awesome is an automotive podcast starring Lane Skelton, Waarren Madsen, and Art Cervantes. Experts in automotive opinion, long-time friends discuss topics on cars of all types, heavy on fun and cheap sports cars from the '80s and '90s, from a podcast studio in Santa Cruz, California. New episodes are uploaded every Thursday. Follow us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @drivingwhileawesome and visit our website at drivingwhileawesome.com
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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Driving While Awesome turns car talk into a running argument among Lane, Warren and Art, with nostalgia repeatedly tested against driving experience and price.
A Lancia Delta Integrale intervention, plus the detour that somehow lands you in an airplane bathroom.
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