#2559: Test Drive?

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Paul has just moved next door to 'Our Fair City' of Cambridge, MA and is embarking on a career as a struggling musician(that's redundant- we know). He's got the band together and he even managed to find a cheap van to haul everything from gig to gig. He did, however, forget one little detail before buying the van. Will Paul's band break up before the van does? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0	It's been six months of the Trump administration and almost daily headlines about big policy changes.
0:05.7	This week, on Consider This, we're taking stock of what's really changed and what hasn't, from immigration to education.
0:12.5	And we're going to unpack the controversy around Trump's nominee to a powerful federal court and a possible shift in his approach to appointing judges.
0:19.9	Listen to Consider This on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:43.3	Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us,
0:49.8	Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Immodest Proposals Division here at Car Talk Plaza. Well, I have one of my usual immodest proposals this week. I have to admit, I've been spurred on, encouraged really by the response that we got to Janet's call a few weeks ago.
1:00.4	You remember Janet?
1:01.2	Oh, yeah, yeah.
1:01.9	Yeah.
1:02.3	No, not really.
1:03.9	Janet was going to buy her 16-year-old daughter, a BMW Z3.
1:09.3	Oh, yeah.
1:09.7	We asked her if she was adopting.
1:11.4	Yeah.
1:12.2	We told her she should increase her medication immediately.
1:15.7	It was ridiculous to give a 16-year-old kid or anybody, for that matter, such an
1:19.5	overpowered car.
1:20.6	And we got tons of letters saying, here, here.
1:24.8	And here's the rant.
1:27.9	An open letter to the people in charge at all the automobile companies, listen up because
1:32.7	I ain't kidding by Dr. Thomas P. Malyazzi.
1:37.8	V stands for, you know what.
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