#2588: A Family Affair
The Best of Car Talk
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4.8 • 16.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Terri has a teenage son and he’s wearing her resistance down at the same time that he’s saving up for a muscle car. Rather than take the easy route, Click and Clack invite Tom’s son Alex to provide the teenage boy perspective. That and other big mistakes on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
| 0:05.4 | RWJF is a national philanthropy, working toward a future where health is no longer a privilege but a right. |
| 0:12.1 | Learn more at RWJF.org. Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us, |
| 0:34.5 | Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers, |
| 0:35.8 | and we're broadcasting this week from the Dart Replacement Division here at Car Talk Plaza. |
| 0:41.2 | Tommy has a new jalopy. |
| 0:43.9 | Well, I would like to officially introduce to the world. |
| 0:48.7 | My red, 1952, it's almost as old as I am. |
| 0:56.3 | M.G.T.D. |
| 0:57.8 | This is like H.G. Weld's time machine. |
| 1:00.0 | Oh, man. |
| 1:01.2 | You're going back? What's wrong with you? |
| 1:02.3 | Well, I had, I've had, let's see, the newest car I've ever had is a 70, 74 Chevy. |
| 1:09.3 | Right, right. |
| 1:10.3 | Right? Which I owned in the 80s. |
| 1:12.2 | That's true. |
| 1:12.9 | And I've had 60s cars in the 70s. |
| 1:18.1 | And in the 90s. |
| 1:19.4 | And in the 90s. |
| 1:20.4 | And I was working my way back, and then I had the 63 Dodge Dart, which was my dear friend for many years. |
| 1:26.5 | And now a 52MGTD, and it is fulfilling |
| 1:31.0 | every MGT or MG are just English. What's the TD? Stereotype. Total disappointment? Total |
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