#2473: The Brains in Maine

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Theresa from Maine has a problem with her car sliding all over the road when she's braking. You'd think that would grab Click and Clack's attention, but you'd be wrong. They would rather use the time to muse on the relative insanity of all of their New England neighbors to the north on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:35.4	click and clack the Tappert brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the
0:38.5	Department of Form versus Function Department. Get that? Department of Form versus Function Department. Department of Form versus Function Department.
0:44.0	Yes.
0:45.0	Here we got to Talk Plaza.
0:46.0	Now, we've been taken to task on the issue of Form Versus Function this week
0:50.0	by Jim and Elizabeth Ann Glasgow from Rockwall, Texas.
0:54.4	And I read to you the following.
0:57.1	They're click and clack.
0:58.1	I heard you talking last week about the cars you drive
1:01.0	that are somebody else's cars, these loner cars that the manufacturers are nice enough to let us drive.
1:06.0	Your opinion of the... Had been nice enough to let us drive.
1:09.0	Before the Taurus Incidents, there was an incident, Jerry.
1:13.2	Your opinion of the Firebird was especially interesting to me.
1:16.0	That wasn't last week.
1:17.0	How old is this letter?
1:18.0	Doesn't matter.
1:19.0	It says unimportant.
1:20.0	Particularly since I've heard you praise the Volvo, the second ugliest car in the world.
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