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The Best of Car Talk

#2374: Alison's Stinkin' Volvo

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Alison was living it up out in latte land(Portland, OR) until she spilled her mocha cappucino all over the inside of her Volvo. Now the rainy season has arrived, and with it, an awful stench of sour milk everywhere she goes. Find out what to do when it's too late to switch to decaf on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at plus.npr.org/cartalk or find the Car Talk channel in Apple Podcasts.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Car Talk, our national public radio with us click and collect the

0:19.7

topic brothers.

0:20.7

And we're broadcasting this week from the awards division here at Car Talk Plaza.

0:25.2

Now my brother is chomping at the bit.

0:27.2

No I mean as one of our two of our listeners may know we've been asking for entries into

0:34.0

a contest for prizes that we could give similar to the Nobel Prize since we didn't get

0:39.5

a Nobel Prize but we could give other prizes and people have in fact been sending us prizes

0:44.3

for example and the example we use is the prize for Smokin Mirrors went to Leia Cokka.

0:49.8

The prizes aren't for us they're for other people.

0:52.0

Other people.

0:53.0

These are nominations.

0:54.0

If you can suggest the prize and who the winner ought to be and we gave it to Leia Cokka

0:59.0

when for 10 years he allowed he was able to make one car when he was ahead of Chrysler

1:04.3

and make the entire American public believe that he was making 15 cars.

1:09.4

And if that doesn't qualify for the Smokin Mirrors prize I don't know what it is.

1:13.6

Now here's an interesting little letter which doesn't isn't quite that but it's interesting

1:18.3

nonetheless.

1:19.3

Go ahead I'm ready.

1:21.3

Leia Cokka heard your show last week and your opening comments about Nobel prizes and

1:26.6

such can't help you with why you were passed over this year but if you open a category

1:32.0

for car problems of Nobel Prize winners I'm a shoe in I think.

1:38.3

By the way this is being written by Judy Laffler the she carefully used her name from

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