#2538: Noah's Park

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Noah's about to go on a 'voyage' of sorts(Think endless concrete and iron bars instead of ocean). His beloved, a '76 Dodge Van, will be pining away for him until he figures out how to escape. Should he put his getaway vehicle in storage or just leave it idling at the secret hideout? Click and Clack are Noah's wheel men on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0	This message comes from Scholastic with the new novel El Nino, an entrancing adventure from
0:05.8	beloved and award-winning author of Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan. Jason Reynolds calls it
0:11.6	a brilliant amalgamation of myth, nature, sport, and loss. I've never read anything like it.
0:17.8	El Nino is available wherever books are sold.
0:36.6	Music anything like it. El Nino is available wherever books are sold. Oh, that's a great. It's a car talk. Welcome to Card Talk.
0:42.0	I can't read that on the air.
0:43.7	No, not really.
0:45.8	Welcome to Card Talk from National Public Radio with us,
0:49.1	Click and Clack, the Tabin' Brothers.
0:51.0	We're broadcasting this week.
0:56.7	From the center for a strange bedford. Come on, get a grip on yourselves. We're broadcasting from the Center for Strange Bedfellows here
1:01.6	in Car Talk Plaza. Oh, yeah. Did you hear this week? Are you ready for this? Yeah. Mercedes-Benz and
1:06.7	Chrysler are, were at least. Where? I'm talking about merging. Wow. I mean, you have to wonder,
1:16.1	what's going to happen? I mean, whenever companies merge like that, certain attributes of one
1:21.2	company are absorbed by the other and vice versa. And vice versa. And are the Germans going to inherit the nerd niche, I mean, which Chrysler inherited
1:31.5	from what, AMC?
1:32.7	AMC, yeah.
1:33.6	So next year we may see the E320 with plaid upholster.
1:39.5	I like it.
1:40.3	I like it.
1:41.4	And on the Chrysler side, will they pick up some of that famous German bravado?
1:44.8	I mean, they talk about the Uber Wagon and Mercedes has decided.
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