#2576: A Real Sled

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Carl from Connecticut has a long, steep driveway that’s expensive to plow in the wintertime. He’s prepared to mount his own plow on the front of his old, high-mileage minivan and give it a go. Will it work? Find out why not on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message Talk from National Public Radio.
0:34.4	Well, thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here.
0:36.5	With us, click and clack the Tappert Brothers,
0:38.6	and we're broadcasting this week
0:40.0	from the Department of Sweeping Generalizations.
0:43.2	We have been at this department many times.
0:46.5	Many times.
0:46.6	You know, I think there's a certain wonderfulness
0:49.9	about sweeping generalizations, and this is one of them.
0:52.8	Well, you know what?
0:53.8	They're so all-encompassing that they remove you from the thought process.
1:00.2	Exactly.
1:01.1	And as my wife keeps saying to me, your thinking is too simplistic.
1:07.7	Yeah, what does she mean by that?
1:09.3	Well, it's a nice way of saying you're a dummy.
1:12.9	Yeah, so what is the shipping generalization you have for?
1:15.9	This item came to us from automotive news.
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1:20.3	Dealers fume over plaid ads.
1:23.5	Yeah.
1:23.8	Seems that car dealers in the Denver area are up in arms over a new series of TV ads.
1:29.6	The ads are for Auto Nation.
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