Pour one out for Roadkill. The much-loved gearhead video sequence has not been renewed for 2025, signaling an finish of a 12-year-long period.
“I simply discovered that it is over,” host Mike Finnegan wrote yesterday on an previous Reddit AMA submit. “After the top of Season 13, which we simply completed filming a couple of weeks in the past, there can be no new episodes of [Roadkill] filmed.”
Hosted by former Sizzling Rod Journal editors Finnegan and David Freiburger, Roadkill began off as an internet sequence on YouTube in 2012. It ran there till 2018, when the present was moved to Motor Pattern on Demand following Discovery’s acquisition of Motor Pattern in 2017. At the moment, Roadkill can solely be seen on the Discovery+ streaming service.
The long-running present has developed a cult following because of the hosts’ camaraderie and the wacky customized automobiles constructed over time. Who might neglect initiatives just like the turbo Ford Mustang V-8-powered Rotsun, the physique panel-less Vette Kart, or the rotary-powered Mazdarati?
It is unclear what the longer term holds for the Roadkill model. It launched a self-titled journal in 2015, however the publication ceased manufacturing lower than three years later. The present’s manufacturing firm would not appear to be fairing a lot better.
“The Motor Pattern manufacturing firm is shutting down,” Finnegan added to his assertion on Reddit. “No particular motive was given to me for its demise. We had a wonderful run and I am happy with what the group achieved however this does appear to be the top of RK. I am uncertain of who owns the RK IP or who to ask why it ended.”
This is not the primary video sequence Motor Pattern has lately killed off. Different sequence, like Grime Each Day, Sizzling Street Storage, and Engine Masters have additionally seemingly been canceled throughout the previous three years.
In case you’re a die-hard Roadkill fan, do not be too unhappy. Each Finnegan and Freiburger have YouTube channels of their very own, the place they repeatedly publish movies. Their shenanigans will reside on, even when Roadkill’s story ends right here.
