Family Car Shopping with Malcolm Gladwell
Eddie helps new father Malcolm Gladwell shop for a family car. They put a souped-up crossover, a Swedish luxury wagon, and... a minivan to the test to help him find…
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Longtime Car and Driver editor Eddie Alterman thinks all cars are great, even the awful ones. But some cars, he says, transcend their “car-ness” and have a story to tell. On Car Show!, Alterman tells those stories. Stories of the vital cars — the ones that have changed how we drive and live, whose significance lies outside the scope of horsepower or miles per gallon. Because some cars are more than just a pile of metal, glass, and rubber. Some cars are rolling anthropology.
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Family Car Shopping with Malcolm Gladwell
Eddie helps new father Malcolm Gladwell shop for a family car. They put a souped-up crossover, a Swedish luxury wagon, and... a minivan to the test to help him find…
The Chrysler Minivan and the New American Parent
Envisioned as the antidote to the dowdy station wagon, the minivan became more stigmatized still, as it gave power and locomotion to a new entity: the helicopter parent. In a…
The Bugatti Veyron: the Quest to Outrun Gravity
The Veyron is what happens when unlimited money and colossal ego meet the hardest automotive-engineering questions ever raised. It was built to be the fastest production car in the universe…
Our First Cars with Lake Bell and Rob Corddry
Eddie talks to Lake Bell and Rob Corddry about the cars that shaped their adolescent years and turned them into car geeks.
The Volkswagen GTI was our Hero ft. Malcolm Gladwell
Proud VW evangelists Malcolm Gladwell and Eddie agitate for a reappraisal of the VW GTI as a historically monumental vehicle—at least to Gen Xers.
The Chevrolet Corvair: How Safety Failed Us
The Corvair was Motor Trend’s Car of the Year for 1960, yet the car hit bottom just three years later. In this episode, how battles over safety shaped the future…
The Lunar Rover: The Most Important Car off this Earth
Why did we send a car to the moon? How did we design something for an environment we knew nothing about? How did we get it up there? Plus: a…
The Porsche 928: Why Better Isn’t Always Best
The Porsche 928 was meant to replace the Porsche 911. Instead, it cemented the 911 as the Porsche icon. In this episode, Eddie investigates why the incredibly great Porsche 928…
The BMW M5: The Last Best Sport Sedan ft. Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell joins Eddie to share this ode to sport-sedan purity, before automation and excessive trim ruined everything.
The Jeep Wrangler: Saving Democracy, Making Bank
The Jeep was created in the 1940s to serve the battlefields of World War II. It glided into France on D-Day, it slogged through the Bulge. Today you can find…
Introducing: Car Show! with Eddie Alterman
Coming soon from Pushkin Industries: a show about why we drive what we drive. Hosted by Eddie Alterman, longtime editor of Car and Driver.
The Host
Eddie Alterman
Eddie Alterman is the Chief Brand Officer for Hearst Autos where he works to shape editorial strategy for Hearst's automotive brands, including Car and Driver, Road & Track, Bring a Trailer, and Autoweek.…
