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Video: Fast Lane Daily Turns 1000, Goes to the Nurburgring

Monday, December 20th, 2010

Today marks the 1,000th episode of Fast Lane Daily, the second-longest running show in YouTube’s history, and unquestionably the most prolific automotive show on the internet. It’s also a particularly special occasion for me personally, as the first hosting job I ever had was for Fast Lane Daily, back in 2007, when I was asked to be a location correspondent at the SEMA show. (Holy shit, I just looked at that episode, it has 1.2 million views).

Fast Lane Daily also helped launch the careers of many people who are now online automotive personalities, such as JF Musial, Alex Roy, Leo Parente, The Smoking Tire cameraman/editor/psychopath Tom Morningstar and, of course, Derek DeAngelis, who has been consistently hosting Fast Lane Daily since 2006.

To commemorate this occasion, they spent $1,000 in the best way possible: take one lap of the Nurburgring. Video after the jump.

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Why Jay Leno is Cooler Than You

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Matt Interviews Jay

In the summer of 2008, I took a tour of Jay Leno’s Garage, and interviewed the man himself for over 3 hours about his collection, what he loves about cars, and life. You can find the entire set of interviews over at Fast Lane Daily, though you may have to search a bit, but what you won’t find is my own personal mega-gallery of shots taken inside the garage. I never intended on publishing these photos, but since Jalopnik ran quite a few photos of the inside of the garage yesterday, what’s the harm?

Unedited Leno Mega-Gallery Awesomeness after the jump.

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Matt Appears on Fast Lane Daily Again, Homo-erotic Rumors Ensue

Monday, December 7th, 2009

I hate auto shows. I know how sacrelige that is to say, but they bore me. I’d just rather be driving. So, when it comes to LA Auto Show time, I just gotta make a shady quasi-homosexual appearance on FLD! But watch the whole thing, because in this episode of FLD, D-rock’s energy is just insane….

Matt Makes an Appearance on Fast Lane Daily!

Monday, December 7th, 2009

It’s been too long since I made an appearance on Fast Lane Daily, so when they came out for the LA Auto Show it was only right that I deliver them a Pizza…. on a $16,000 Moto Guzzi Stelvio 1200QV!