#2601: Customer to Dealer Incentive
The Best of Car Talk
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4.7 • 16.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Leslie’s family was about to upgrade in more ways than one. They were on the prowl for a minivan when Leslie, 9 months pregnant, had a sudden, urgent need to make a very memorable impression on everyone at the local Chrysler dealership parking lot. Was the birth of their daughter sufficient downpayment on a new ride or did she have to make her case to the service manager, too? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR and the following message come from Yarl and Pamela Mohn, thanking the people who make public radio great every day and also those who listen. |
| 0:29.3 | Thank you. Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us, |
| 0:35.2 | Click and Clack to Tapit Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Employee Motivation Center here at Carat Plaza. |
| 0:40.3 | Now, we're always looking for ways to inspire our fellow employees, and I ever thought that the hard metal seats and the 54 degree temperature in the office would have done that, but |
| 0:45.6 | apparently not. |
| 0:46.9 | No. |
| 0:47.6 | But, but, but, but, but. |
| 0:50.2 | We got some ideas here from someone whose name is, we don't know. |
| 0:55.7 | Someone. |
| 0:57.0 | Anonymous. |
| 0:58.0 | Anonymous. |
| 0:59.0 | Someone sent us this email. |
| 1:00.7 | And it says, how to drive other people crazy? |
| 1:05.0 | And I suppose it's ideas for things to do at work, most of them are. |
| 1:11.4 | Go ahead. |
| 1:12.1 | Put your garbage on your desk and label it in. |
| 1:17.9 | Now, I remember when I worked with my dear friends at the Foxborough Company, I discovered |
| 1:24.6 | one day that I had some kind of insurance that would pay my salary or 80% |
| 1:31.9 | of it. |
| 1:32.4 | Oh, I know. |
| 1:32.8 | If I was judged to be incompetent, mentally... |
| 1:37.1 | Incontinent? |
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