#2314: What's My Car Worth?

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Trade-in value for most used cars is a carefully crafted calculation made by car dealers having to do with the car's current resale value and the size of the dealer's boat payment. For junkboxes like the Chevy Malibu that Joan is trying to unload it just depends on how much gas is in the tank. Find out what our two knuckleheads thought of Joan's heap on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Card Talk on National Public Radio with us clicking on the tabern
0:19.8	buttons and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for the Study of Reinventing
0:25.0	Auto Repair here in the West Wing overlooking the Rose Garden of Card Talk Plaza.
0:30.4	You know, Vice President Al Gore is leading the charge to root out wasteful federal government
0:35.7	spending and he's asked my brother and me to help rid the world of auto repair of the
0:40.3	sleazy image that it has.
0:42.3	Yes!
0:43.3	So no foreign!
0:44.3	Don't want charging customers for changing the air in the attire.
0:46.3	Right!
0:47.3	How about fresh coffee in the waiting room?
0:49.3	Exactly!
0:50.3	All repair bills will clearly indicate how much goes to your mechanics, both payments
0:53.9	possible.
0:54.9	This is a problem.
0:55.9	He can't do that.
0:56.9	What do you mean, both payments?
0:57.9	Well, he's trying anyway.
0:58.9	Hey, speaking of waste.
0:59.9	You got mail to read?
1:00.9	I got mail, I'm boy, are you in trouble?
1:03.9	Me?
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