#2585: Reversal of Fortune

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Anne’s husband was under heavy sedation following a very delicate medical procedure and lying on a mattress placed in the back of their minivan for a seven hour drive home. In order to spare him the pain, Anne floored it the entire way and now hubby and the van don’t sound so good. Did she wreck the car? Did hubby survive? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:35.7	Thank you. Hello and welcome to Kyr Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Collect the Tappert Brothers,
0:40.9	and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Auto Related Entertainment here at Car Talk Plaza.
0:41.7	Now, this is a new one.
0:45.9	Some of you may know that car companies are trying to build relationships with their customers.
0:51.0	You know, it's not just selling a car and fixing a car and fixing it again and again.
0:54.5	Car companies now want to engage people in other ways.
0:54.9	Yeah.
0:56.9	So Toyota Motor Company of Japan is opening.
0:57.4	Get this.
0:58.5	A theme park.
1:02.6	In addition to roller coasters and ferris wheels and Cotton Canyon and all that jazz,
1:05.4	people can ride around in Toyota electric cars.
1:11.1	They can visit the history garage and learn about Route 66, things like that.
1:15.4	And they can see Future World, which features, of course, lots of futuristic cars from whom?
1:16.6	Toyota.
1:16.9	Of course.
1:17.7	Why not?
1:22.3	Well, we wondered, of course, what would happen if General Motors opened the theme park right in downtown Detroit?
1:24.3	And we try to imagine what attractions a GM theme park would feature.
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