This is Eric Glass.

On This American Life, sometimes we just show up somewhere, turn on our tape recorders, and see what happens.

If you can't get seven cars in 12 days, you've got to look yourself in the mirror and say, holy, what are you kidding me?

Like this car dealership, trying to sell its monthly quota of cars, and it is not going well.

I just don't want one balloon to a car.

Balloon the whole freaking place, so it looks like a circus. Real life stories every week. Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us,

Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the No Idol Threats division here in Car Talk, Plaza.

As you may recall, last week I mentioned the fact that, first of all, I should preface this by saying

that we get these test cars to drive.

And I've been waiting all summer for the new Jaguar XK8 convertible.

And I keep hearing through the grapevine, which is Bugsie Lawler, that it's coming.

Any day you'll have it.

You'll have it in June.

You'll have it in July.

You'll have it in August.

It's September.

It's October.

Where is it?

We don't have it.

I don't know anything.

I know nothing.

I really don't.

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