It is official now; the immensely popular gearhead web series Roadkill after an incredible 13 season run is going to end.
This was announced by the show’s co-host Mike Finnegan via Reddit on the r/Roadkillshow community page on November 18.
Finnegan wrote,
“I just learned that it’s over. After the end of Season 13, which we just finished filming a few weeks ago, there will be no new episodes of RK filmed. The Motor Trend production company is shutting down. No specific reason was given to me for its demise”.
Mike Finnegan continued,
“We had an excellent run and I’m proud of what the team accomplished but this does seem to be the end of RK. I’m unsure of who owns the RK IP or who to ask why it ended.”
The 13th season will end sometime in 2025 but the Roadkill universe legend lives on. The series ran for 167 episodes and 13 consecutive seasons, there is plenty to look forward to since an entire bunch of episodes will be coming in 2025 and 2026.
The final episode of Roadkill is set to premiere on MotorTrend TV early in 2025. The entire season is currently being streamed on Discovery + and Max and there is more for fans. A slew of never-seen episodes of Roadkill Garage are scheduled to be streamed in 2026 on MotorTrend TV, Discovery+, and Max.
Hence the TV show must be ending but the Roadkill brand, popular Roadkill Nights event in Detroit included, will be streaming on MotorTrend TV channel.
It is unclear what led to the end of the series but Automobile pundit Ryan Brutt aka The Auto Archaeologist took to the social media and stated that it was somehow linked to closure of the MotorTrend Production Company. Its parent company Discover/ Warner Bros had to close it after landing in a multi-billion-dollar debt.
“So, I just heard that the entire MotorTrend Production Company has been shut down by Discovery/WB. They are 41 Billion Dollars in debt, it isn’t surprising. But just so sad, I was there at the beginning, and I think I’ll be there at the end. What a run of awesome,”
Ryan Brutt took to Instagram and posted a picture from the series with the message,
“R.I.P. Roadkill”
Roadkill was originally premiered on YouTube before it later moved to Discovery+.It was the brainchild of Hot Rod Magazine editor-in-chief David Freiburger and its staff editor Mike Finnegan. The original idea was to film a road trip from El Paso, Texas to Los Angeles, California and put it on YouTube.
The video was an instant hit and it led to Hot Rod launching a production company called MotorTrend which later evolved into Roadkill and managed a whopping 7 million subscribers. The series also led to the spawning of a number of similar clones. The company was acquired by Discovery in 2017 and renamed it MotorTrend Group. The Warner Bros. and Discovery merger made them the joint owners of the company.
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