Up Close and Personal with Motor Trend's Hosts! Part 1 - Wide Open Throttle Episode 42

On this week's episode of Wide Open Throttle, Jessi Lang meets up with some of her fellow show hosts to answer the viewers' most popular questions. Find out how each one landed the job and learn where their love for the industry was born.

Wide Open Throttle appears every Thursday on the new Motor Trend channel.

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[MotorTrendWatch]

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback! I'm so glad you feel inspired and closer to us all!
Jessi

[MotorTrendWatch]

So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the feedback!
Jessi

[MotorTrendWatch]

So-called cheap cars are supremely important in a country in which the disparity between the rich and the poor is vast. I was not a trust-fund kid and i have had to pay for every car I've ever owned. I am so grateful for affordable rides and the places they have enabled me to go.
Jessi

[MotorTrendWatch]

Thank you for that, my friend. I appreciate it more than you know.
Jessi

[MotorTrendWatch]

What a cool comment! Thanks for that!
Jessi

[MotorTrendWatch]

So glad to hear it! Hope you'll keep watching!
Jessi

[MotorTrendWatch]

That's great to hear! We'll do more episodes like this in the future.
Jessi

[MotorTrendWatch]

Happy Thanksgiving to you! Thanks for writing!
Jessi

[slipdip]

inspiration. To a 19 year old, sitting in his rented basement room, currently enrolled in a useless to me college course; this makes me just wanna tough it out and finish up this course so i can actually go to a real university and get a degree so i can do something like this one day. Thank you to motor trend for doing this video and part 2. Helps see some light at the end of this long tunnel, called post secondary education.

[FEEDtheMACHNE]

I am 17 years old and recently found an interest in cars and trucks. I have been researching them and filling my mind with facts in the past 3 years or so. I have learned more in the past 6 months of watching Motor Trend than 3 years of looking up specs because you tell more than the obvious facts.

Also, stories like this are encouraging to us young ones who have a passion for cars. Now I see that perseverance really pays off and I can achieve my dream career, thanks to hearing your stories! :D

[darvelllarickpowell]

GREATNESS! This episoe deserves an Emmy! Thank you all at MOTOR TREND & your sister publications for your devote time in gaining your respective educations & experiences so that we here in the automotive land can enjoy them!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

[DoWorkExotics]

Jessi:
I really respect how you commented on all of your education. I am currently entering grad school and am hoping it all pays off! I know it will. It was good to hear that it all paid off for you.
Thanks!

[mbraun]

This is why I love MotorTrend! Very down to earth people that love what they do. Awesome episode!

[filiperibeiroferro]

Thank you all inside Motor Trend. I really really like almost all the things you've uploaded, acctually there isn't any that I don't like, but the ones I like the most and this episode of Wide Open Throttle is among these. Congratulations!!!

[ELDENSJOHN]

Thanks guys for doing this show, you just reignited my passion to do what I love, not just what makes me money!

[ky]

I have been watching motortrend for a long time. It is an absolutely number 1 motor show that cover every area of car industries. I used to watch top gear in the past. As I watched the motor trend first time, I am hooked on it!
This is first time that I write the comment here, I wish to see motor trend hosts can organize a friendly car competition, because I think the motor trend hosts have good driving skills!!

[RedLineAutoServices]

You guys are the main reason I watch Motor Trend, sure the cars are great, but you make it greater, keep them coming.
Greetings from Venezuela

[wfangnxd]

Jessie is soo cool, smart and adorable. Glad to be subscribed to a car channel that has a host whose intelligence is the thing that keeps me coming back. Way to go Jessie!

[AJ]

One of the only magazines I will actually buy because its Journalism at its best ... Lots of feed backs on cars and other automobiles ... Good job Motor Trend and keep up with the good work...

[FizzyMotors]

Motor trend just gets better and better. My two favourite channels are now this one and Drive. great work guys