For three decades award-winning automotive journalist David Booth has informed, inspired and at times outraged readers with his Motor Mouth column in Canada’s National Post newspaper and on Driving.caNow he’s bringing his profound expertise and pointed opinions to the podcast world with the Motor Mouth with David Booth podcast.Don’t miss his hot takes on the big stories in the automotive world, from electrification to autonomous vehicles, from manufacturing to mining, and from supercars to subcompacts.
Latest episodes
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40 min
Donald Trump as electric vehicle saviour?
Ask most anyone who followed the recent U.S. presidential election, and they’ll tell you that one of the many things that Donald Trump is ‘anti’ about is electric vehicles. He plan…
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41 min
U.S. election result could have big impact on Canada’s auto sector
Much has been written and said about U.S. President elect Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk, some flattering some not, but what cannot be denied is that neither man does…
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43 min
U.S. election result could have big impact on Canada’s auto sector
The stakes are high south of the border as U.S. voters go to the polls on Tuesday to elect a new president, but lost in all the hype and hot air is how a Trump administration could…
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40 min
Has Renault created the perfect zero emission car?
Game changer. Two words that seemingly crop up every time an emerging electric vehicle technology, or even a new EV itself, make headlines. But in almost all cases, that new tech o…
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55 min
The existential threat to legacy automakers
Season 4 of the Motor Mouth podcast kicks off with one of the hottest topics in the automotive industry, and that is the stunning rise of Chinese manufacturers and the subsequent s…
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46 min
Living La Bella Vita of fine motorcars
Looking back on Season 3 of the Motor Mouth podcast, we tackled some weighty subject matter, from the existential threat the Chinese electric vehicle industry poses to Western auto…
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60 min
Will cancelled EV mandates derail the EV revolution?
With conservative political movements sweeping across North America and Europe, many automotive industry observers believe one of the first things on the chopping block will be the…
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45 min
Elon gets paid, Bugatti blasts off and Lotus charges ahead
Yes, it’s been a week or so since Tesla shareholders approved Elon Musk’s multi-billion dollar payday, but you’re never truly full informed on this or any other automotive-related…
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37 min
Can anyone but the Chinese make an affordable EV?
David draws comparisons to the disastrous consequences U.S protectionism had on the Big Three in the Seventies, he wonders — as do we all — if Tesla is really serious (capable?) ab…
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36 min
Is Elon Musk tired of running a car company?
Trying to figure out what’s going on with Elon Musk, and by association Tesla, is always a challenge, but Motor Mouth has never shied away from offering his opinion on the motivati…
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42 min
So you want to be an automotive journalist?
On this week’s Motor Mouth podcast David recounts how a party weekend in Toronto turned into his first automotive writing gig 41 years ago. He tells some memorable tales from on th…
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55 min
EV messaging, PHEV’s future and the new Porsche Taycan
This week David Booth tackles some electric vehicle content, beginning with Motor Mouth channeling his inner Marshall McLuhan to explain that the problem with public skepticism abo…
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41 min
Fearless EV predictions for 2024
We’re just a couple of weeks into 2024, so David Booth offers up some bold predictions for the year ahead on the hottest and most polarizing topic in automotive now and into the fo…
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34 min
An EV mandate for Canada, and Pierre Poilievre
If you caught last week’s Driving to the Future panel, you’ll know there is much uncertainty surrounding Canada’s self-imposed 2035 deadline that mandates the discontinuation of ne…
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44 min
New Dawn for the Rising Sun show
The Tokyo Motor Show was running on fumes before the pandemic shut it down for a few years, but it returned last month, renamed and reinvigorated. David Booth attended the Japan Mo…
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38 min
Can anyone take on Tesla and BYD?
The evolving electric vehicle landscape is shaping up to be a heavyweight battle pitting good old U.S. ingenuity versus Chinese low-cost battery and vehicle production. In this epi…
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43 min
Room temperature superconductor, Mate Rimac's hypercar and Elon Musk's long nose
In this week’s Motor Mouth podcast David Booth looks back on his past few columns, the first of which reported on an amazing technical breakthrough that if true, would alter the tr…
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35 min
Motorcycles - A lifetime on two-wheels
In this week’s Motor Mouth podcast David Booth goes back to his riding roots, which started in a small northern Quebec community aboard a Honda CT70. He also talks about his favour…
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37 min
Will EV battery subsidies doom the North American auto business?
In this week’s Motor Mouth podcast David Booth expands on his recent column detailing the fallout from Stellantis stopping work on its Windsor battery factory until the federal gov…
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37 min
The rising fortunes of Hydrogen and the perils of burning EVs
In this week’s Motor Mouth podcast David Booth extols the virtues of hydrogen as a zero-emission fuel to power heavy duty trucks and passengers vehicles. And he expands on his most…